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Please check out the following items to make sure that you get the complete product:
VGA card
CDs
- Drivers and documentation on CD
- Applications on CD
Consult your dealer immediately if anything is missing or damaged.
Features
Cinefx
Shading
Architecture
- Support for DX 9.0 Pixel/Vertex Shader 2.0+
- Very long pixel programs up to 1024 instructions
- Very long vertex programs with up to 256 static instructions and up to
65536 instructions executed before termination
- Looping and subroutines with up to 256 loops per vertex program
- Subroutines in shader programs
- Z-correct bump-mapping
- Hardware-accelerated shadow effects with shadow buffers
High-Performance, High-Precision, 3D Rendering Engine
- 8 pixels per clock rendering engine
- 128-bit, studio-quality floating point precision through the entire graphics
pipeline
- Native support for 128-bit floating point, 64-bit floating point and 32-bit
integer rendering modes
- Up to 16 textures per pass
- Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
- DirectX and S3TC texture compression
High-Performance 2D Rendering Engine
- Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes
- True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor with alpha
- Multi-buffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback
- True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor with alpha
Intellisample
Technology
Advanced Display Pipeline with Full nView Capabilities
- Dual, 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including
2048x1536@85Hz
- Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder support resolutions up to 1024x768 without the
need for panning with built-in Macrovision copy protection
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Note: The VGA card shown here
may vary from the actual card.
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128MB DDR memory or
64MB DDR memory
TV_Out Connector (S)
nVIDIA GeForceFX5200
AGP Interface
D-Sub Port
DVI-D Port
For reference only
To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following
requirements:
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Inte l Pentium 4/III/II/Celeron , AMD K6/Duron /Athlon /Athlon XP or compatible
with AGP 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (4X/8X).
128MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive
Operating Systems Support: Windows XP/2000
Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability.
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MSI Live VGA BIOS Update
This service enables you to update the latest VGA BIOS for your VGA card.
1. To update your VGA BIOS, click Live VGA BIOS item on the left column of the main page.
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2. If your VGA card does not support the Live VGA BIOS function, you will receive a warning
message on the screen.
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3. If your VGA card do support the Live VGA BIOS function, please pay attention to the message
shown on the screen telling you that in what circumstance flashing BIOS may fail to reboot.
4. Click Yes if you would like to try it at your own risk or No to return to the main page with
everything unchanged.
5. If you click Yes to continue, it will check the information and BIOS version of your VGA card,
and list them in a table.
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6. Click the graph button at the bottom to connect the MSI Live Update 3 Server.
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7. The MSI Live VGA BIOS will automatically connect the Internet and search the supported
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BIOS in the database of MSI .
8. If it has found one (or several) supported BIOS for your VGA card, click the InstallShield
Wizard button on the right side of the table to have the new BIOS downloaded and updated
automatically.
9. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the updating procedure.
* All trademarks used in this manual are the sole property of their respective owners.
VGA is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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Macrovision Corporation Product Notice
This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by method claims of
certain U.S. patents and other intellectual property rights owned by Macrovision Corporation and
other right owners. Use of this copyright protection technology must be authorized by Macrovision
Corporation, and is intended for home and other limited viewing uses only unless otherwise
authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited.
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