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MSI FX5900U-VTD256 (2003)
January 10, 2004
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As its name implies, MSI's GeForce FX5900U-VTD256 is based on NVIDIA's latest GPU, the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra. This board boasts a 450MHz core and 256MB of DDR memory among its list of features, and one of the largest bundles among GeForce FX 5900 Ultra cards. In today's review, we compare this card against the latest 128MB and 256MB RADEONs, as well as a few other GeForce FX cards. Read all about this card and MSI's upcoming NBox bundle inside!

Description:
Support Memory
256MB DDR SDRAM

Video Output Function
TV-out (S-Video connector)
DVI-I
Video_in (Composite Video)

NVIDIA CINEFX 2.0 Engine
• Advanced pixel shaders deliver 2x the floating-point shader pixel performance of previous generations
• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 (DX9) pixel shader 2.0+
• Support for DX9 vertex shader 2.0+
• Long pixel programs up to 1,024 instructions
• Long vertex programs up to 256 static instructions with up to 65,536 instructions executed
• Dynamic, conditional execution and flow control
• Architected for Cg and Microsoft HLSL for maximum compatibility for nextgeneration content
• 128-bit, studio-quality, floating-point precision computation through the entire rendering pipeline
• Native hardware support for 32 bpp, 64bpp and 128 bpp rendering modes
• Up to 12 pixel shader operations/clock
• Up to 16 textures per rendering pass
• Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
• DirectX and S3TC texture compression
• Optimized for 32-, 24-, 16-, 15- and 8-bpp modes
• True-color, 64x64 hardware cursor alpha
• Multibuffering (double, triple or quad) for smooth animation and video playback

Intellisample HCT Performance Technology
• Increased visual quality at higher resolutions through advances in
compression, anisotropic filtering, and antialiasing technology
• Blistering-fast antialiasing and compression performance
• Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for both color, texture, and z data at even higher resolutions and frame rates
• Fast z-clear

UltraShadow Technology
• Accelerates shadow volumes for nextgeneration games
• Accurately maintains shadows while discarding non-useful information

Advanced Display Pipeline with Full nView Capabilities
• Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder supporting resolutions up to
1024x768 without the need for panning with builtin Macrovision copy protection
• DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i resolutions
• Dual, integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and
including 2048x1536@85Hz
• Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters
• Internal TV support
• Dual internal TMDS encoders (one single and one Dual link) able to
drive nextgeneration flat panel displays with resolutions greater than 1600x1200
• VIP 1.1 interface support for Video-In function
• Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support for multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window

Digital Vibrance control (DVC) 3.0
• DVC color controls
• DVC image sharpening controls

Advanced Technology
• AGP 8X including Fast Writes and sideband addressing
• 0.13-micron process technology for higher levels of integration and higher operating clock speeds
• Advanced thermal management and thermal monitoring
• 40 mmx40 mm, BGA 1309 flip-chip package

Operation Systems and API support
• Windows® XP / 2000 / Me / 98SE
• Complete DirectX support, including DirectX 9.0 and lower
• Full OpenGL 1.4 and lower

Compatibility
• NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• Fully compliant professional OpenGL 1.4 API with NVIDIA extensions, on all Windows operating systems
• WHQL-certified for Windows® XP, Windows® Me, Windows® 2000

Bundled MSI Media Center (MSI Unique)
◊ Browse all your multi-media resources in a single integrated platform
◊ Make your PC a Multi-media Center of your home.
◊ More amazing functions: Watch TV (Support MSI TV Tuner only), Listen to Music, View Pictures, Play Video Clips, Play DVD, Game Zone, Applications Collection

Bundled Virtual Drive 7 Professional Version (Full Pack only)
◊ Support "Virtual Drive" x 3, "Virtual Disk" x 5
◊ User can duplicate licensed CD as a image into HDD, to get best Read/Write speed.
◊ User can use one Virtual Drive to play MP3, use another VirtualDrive to read CD data, and use another Virtual Drive to duplicateCD (ex. If the user has a physical CDRW installed).
◊ Multi-language Support: English, French, Japanese, Netherlandish, Traditional/Simple Chinese.

Bundled Restore It 3 Professional Version(Full Pack only)
◊ Support "Static Restore Point" x 1, "Incremental (Dynamic) Restore Point" x 15.
◊ More than WinXP "System Restore", not only can restore system files & registers, but also can recognize & restore all files made by all variant utilities.
◊ Furthermore, if your HDD been format or damaged by virus, it still can 100% restore.
◊ Multi-language Support: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional/Simple Chinese.

Bundled MSI 5.1 Channel DVD Player
◊ Support up to Dolby 5.1 Channel audio complete entertainment.
◊ User-defined Playback Duration
Bundled Foreign Language Learning Machine (Full Pack only)
◊ Easy click "Enter" key, repeat 8/4/2/1 second program automatically, to learn foreign language. After you well understand the sentence, you can click "Enter" key again to continue the playback.

Bundled MSI 3D Desktop
◊ Fantastic 3D Desktop Experience.
◊ Embedded 2 Shooting Game onto MSI 3D desktop (Crime Alley & Target Practice)
◊ Embedded 1 Hidden Room (to store your home pictures, video, web-link…etc.)
◊ Screen Saver effect support !!

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.
• 3D! Turbo Experience
- Fancy, Game-looking HTML/Flash Based Tool
- New revolution! MSI is the worldwide first company to propose the advantage of HTML/Flash based utilities. By leading the new software trend, MSI devotes to serve the users a fancy, game- looking utility. Are you ready for the new experience now?
• 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 2000
• Microsoft® DirectX 8.1

10-set 3D games
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Morrowind
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

7-in-1 games collection
- The Sum of All Fears
- IL-2 Sturmovik
- Serious Sam 2 lite
- Rally Trophy
- Beam Breakers
- Zax: The Alien Hunter
- Oni


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Manufacturer:
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Hardware Type:
Video Cards: NVIDIA AGP

Hardware Sub-Type:
GeForce FX 5900 Series

Year Released: 2003

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