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MSI VGA Features:
 
 
 
 
 
     
 
FX5500-T128
 

 
 
 
Support Memory
  128MB DDR SDRAM
   
On-board Function
TV-out (S-Video Connector)

 

MSI Part No: MS-8936-390
 
  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
   
Intellisample Technology
 
Blistering-fast antialiasing performance
Adaptive texture filtering
Fast Z-clear
Advanced loss-less compression algorithms for both color and Z data.
   
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
NVIDIA® NVRotate™ application for advanced viewing flexibility
NVIDIA® NVKeystone™ application for advanced display correction
   
Digital Vibrance control (DVC) 3.0
 
DVC color controls
DVC image sharpening controls
   
Performance
 
Graphics Core: 256-bit
Memory Interface: 128-bit
Fill Rate: 1.1 billion texels/sec.
Vertices per Second: 68 million
Pixel per clock (peak): 4
Textures per pixel (max in a single rendering pass): 16
Dual RAMDACs: 350MHz
   
Operation Systems and API support
 
Windows® XP / 2000 / Me / 98SE
Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and lower
Full OpenGL 1.5 and lower support
API Support
   
Designed to WHQL Compatibility Standards
 
Windows® XP, 2000, 98SE, ME, NT 4.0 display driver
Microsoft® DirectDraw®, Direct3D®, DirectVideo®, and ActiveX driver
OpenGL® ICD for Windows® XP, 2000, 98SE, and NT
Complete Linux display and OpenGL drivers support
Fully P00, PC99 and PC99a compliant
   
Bundle MSI developed Software
 
MSI Live Update Series ( Live VGA BIOS & Live VGA Driver)
- Automatically online download & update VGA BIOS & Drivers, reduce the risk of getting the wrong files, and never have the trouble on web site searching.
GoodMen
- Automatically release the system memory space, reduce the risk of system hang-up.
LockBox
- Instantly enter the data lock mode when you must leave your system for a while.
WMIinfor
- Automatically list the detail system configuration, it helpful for engineering service people.
ThinSoft BeTwin
MSI Secure DOC
E-Color
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Trend Micro PC-Cillin
Microsoft® DirectX 9.0