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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.
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nVIDIA GeForce NX7800GT
Power Connector
PCI Express interface
To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements:
Intel Pentium III
(and above), AMD K7 (and above), or compatible with PCI Express slot
Minimum 128MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
Interactive Program guide requires Internet connection for listing updates
Power supply of 400 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability.
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512MB DDR3 memory or
256MB DDR3 memory
NVIDIA CineFX. 4.0 Shading Architecture
Vertex Shaders
64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending
4.0 Technology
II Technology
SLI Technology
Pixel Shaders
Next-Generation Texture Engine
DirectX and S3TC texture compression
Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline with
native hardware support for 32bpp, 64bpp, and 128bpp rendering modes
Full floating point support throughout entire pipeline
Floating point filtering improves the quality of images in motion
Floating point texturing drives new levels of clarity and image detail
Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and
explosions
NVIDIA Intellisample
Advanced 16x anisotropic filtering (up to 128 Taps)
Rotated-grid antialiasing removes jagged edges for incredible edge quality
Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data at even
higher resolutions and frame rates
Fast z-clear
Support for normal map compression
New transparent super-sampling and transparent multi sampling Anti-Aliasing modes
NVIDIA UltraShadow
Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games, like id Software's Doom 3
Patented hardware and software technology allows two GPUs to run in parallel to scale
performance
Scales performance on over 60 top PC games and applications
NVIDIA nView multi-display support for scalable performance across two displays
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DVI-I Ports
Fan Connector
Video_In / TV_Out
Connector (S&C)
SLI interface
NX7800GT-VT2D256E
NX7800GT-VT2D512E
nVIDIA GeForce NX7800GT inside!!!
PCI Express Interface
Note: The VGA card shown here
may vary from the actual card.
For further information, please
visit MSI website at
www.msi.com.tw
For reference only
* 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.
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.
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