MSI
3D AGPhantom MS-8809
Manufacturer
- MSI
Computer Corp.
Thursday, April 20, 2000 - Hilbert Hagedoorn
Hardware used
Pentium II 350 @ 392 MHz 100 MHz FSB
Pentium III 500E @ 666MHz 133 MHz FSB
256MB PC 100 SDRAM
Software used
Windows 98 SE
DirectX 7.x
Detonator drivers v3.64
General
The MS-8809 is a GeForce 256 32MB videocard powered by nVIDIA's GeForce GPU
(Graphics Processing Unit), it is equipped with 32Mb 5.0ns SDRAM memory and is bundled with a manual, S-VHS cable
Power DVD and driver CD. This videocard
has a S-VHS Output connector.
A prelude
Today we will be looking at another
GeForce 256 based videocard. This time it'll be the latest one from
MSI Computer Corp. This company with a stronghold for their high quality
mainboards has established a series of projects for video cards in
recent years. MSI believes that they have the strong resources and capabilities to make
video cards, we agree. This is one of the great accomplishments and challenges for
MSI. We hope to see and test a lot of products for MSI in the
near future.
The GeForce based cards is probably
one of the most successful videocards since the release of 3dfx's
Voodoo1. However, the release of this product is quite late. My bet is
that this great product will be targeted at for OEM. Good quality for
a low price. Let us just hope that the market has not become saturated,
on the CeBIT in Hannover I have seen about 15 new GeForce
manufacturers that can flood this market quite easily with a product
that is slowly fading out the market with the up and coming NV15 and
of course 3dfx's Voodoo 4 and 5.
Specifications/ Key Features
- NVIDIA GeForce256, 256-bit 2D/3D
graphics processor
- Ultra-fast 32MB SDRAM with 256-bit
graphics architecture
- Integrated transform and lighting
- AGP 4X with Fast Writes
- 32-bit color ARGB with destination
alpha
- 32-bit Z/Stencil and 8-bit stencil
- Cube environment mapping
- Anisotropic texture filtering
- 350MHz Palette-DAC
- DVD and HDTV ready motion
compensation for MPEG-2 decoding
- Industry's first 5-tap horizontal
by 3-tap vertical video filtering
- 8:1 up and down scaling on video
overlay
- Complete VIP 2.0 video
implementation (1x-8x Host, 75 MHz, 16-bit video port)
- WHQL-qualified drivers for Windows
2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 3.5, Windows 98, Windows 95, and
Windows 3.1
- OpenGL ICD for full OpenGL support
- Fully PC99 and PC99a compliant
- Optional TV out support
Coming up: the
videocard review
|
