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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.
To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following
requirements:
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Computer : Intel Pentium processor, Intel Celeron or Pentium II/III/4
processor or compatible system.
Slot : AGP slot.
Monitor : VGA Support, minimum 640x480 resolution.
Operating System : Windows 98/ME, Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0.
CD-ROM drive : Double Speed or Higher.
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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
- Dynamic flow control
- Conditional write masking
- Conditional execution
- Procedural shading
- Full instruction set for vertex and pixel programs
- Z-correct bump-mapping
- Hardware-accelerated shadow effects with shadow buffers
- Two-sided stencil
- Programmable matrix palette skinning
- Keyframe animation
- Custom lens effects: fish eye, wide angle, fresnel effects, water refraction
High-Performance, High-Precision, 3D Rendering Engine
- 4 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
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http://www.msi.com.tw
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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 2 Server.
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7. The MSI Live VGA BIOS will automatically connect the Internet and search the
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supported 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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FX5500-T128
FX5500-T64
nVIDIA GeForce FX5500 inside!!!
MICRO-STAR
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128MB DDR memory or
64MB DDR memory
TV_Out Connector (S)
Fan Connector
nVIDIA GeForceFX5500
D-Sub Port
AGP 8X interface
