MSI GF4 Ti4600 Review Overclocker 13 Mar 2002

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MSI GF4 Ti4600 Review
Overclocker 13 Mar 2002

We are familiar with MSI as a mainboard manufacturer. In fact, MSI produces quite a series of nVIDIA based graphics cards to pair up with your speedy mainboard. In this package, MSI provided lots of interesting software applications to bundle with the card. In fact, it has one of the best overall package.

Some of the interesting software bundled includes the MSI Live Series. They include the Live VGA BIOS and VGA driver which allows the BIOS and driver to be updated online through the internet. The package also includes games. There is also a software 3D!Turbo Experience which allows overclocking of the card.

Chipset

MSI Feature
  * MSI Live VGA BIOS
  * MSI Live VGA Driver
  * InterVideo WinProducer/WinCoder Ver2.0
  * MSI 3D!Turbo Experience™!
  * MSI DVD Player

Support Memory
128MB DDR SDRAM

Video Output Function
   TV-out (S-Video connector)
   Video-in
   DVI Connector

General Features

      -- The nVIDIA nfiniteFX™ II Engine enable a virtually infinite number of special effects that
          deliver the next leap in realism to 3D graphics
      -- Dual programmable Vertex Shaders
      -- Advanced programmable Pixel Shaders
      -- nVIDIA Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II
      -- nVIDIA Accuview™ Antialiasing
      -- 3D Textures
      -- Shadow Buffers
      -- 4 dual-rendering pipelines
      -- 8 texels per clock cycle
      -- Dual cube environment mapping
      -- 128MB high-speed DDR RAM memory
      -- High-Definition Video Processor (HDVP)
      -- AGP 4X with Fast Writes
      -- AGP 4X / 2X and AGP Texturing support
      -- 32-bit color with 32-bit Z/stencil buffer
      -- Z-correct true, reflective bump mapping
      -- High-performance 2D rendering engine
      -- Hardware accelerated real-time shadows
      -- True-color hardware cursor
      -- Integrated hardware transform engine
      -- Integrated hardware lighting engine
      -- High-quality HDTV/DVD playback
      -- TV-Out and Video Modules
      -- Multibuffering (double, triple, quad) for smooth animation and video playback
      -- Microsoft DirectX® and S3TC® texture compression
      -- nVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
      -- Up to 10.4 GB/sec. memory bandwidth
      -- 136 million triangles/sec. setup engine
      -- 4.8 billion AA sample/sec. fill rate
      -- 1.23 trillion operations/sec.

Compatibility
      -- Complete Linux® drivers, including full OpenGL®
      -- Microsoft DirectX® optimizations and support
      -- Complete OpenGL® 1.3 and OpenGL® support
      -- WHQL-certified Windows® XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
            - Windows® XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 display drivers
            - Microsoft DirectDraw®, Direct3D®, DirectVideo® and DirectActiveX® drivers
            - OpenGL® ICD for Windows® XP/2000/NT/98/95
            - Complete Linux® display and OpenGL® drivers support
            - Fully P00, PC99 and PC99a compliant
      -- Support operation system under Windows® XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
      -- Linux® compatible
      -- API support
      -- OpenGL® 1.3 and lower
      -- Microsoft DirectX® 8.1 and lower

Supports super high resolution graphics modes

      640x480      8/16/32   bit colors with   150Hz
      800x600      8/16/32   bit colors with   150Hz
      1024x768    8/16/32   bit colors with   120Hz
      1152x864    8/16/32   bit colors with   120Hz
      1280x1024  8/16/32   bit colors with   100Hz
      1600x1200  8/16/32   bit colors with     85Hz
      1920x1200  8/16/32   bit colors with     75Hz
      2048x1536  8/16/32   bit colors with     60Hz

Bundle 10 Supreme Valuable 3D Games


No One Lives Forever	Aquanox	Sacrifice
7 in 1 Games Collection * Ballistics Demo * Tom Clancy's Rogue Spear-Black Thorn Demo * Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Demo * Comanche 4 Demo * Fallout Tactics Demo * Swat 3: Close Quarters Battle Demo * Serious Sam: The First Encounter

Let's take a look at the gallery of the MSI Geforce Ti4600 on the next 2 pages followed by the benchmarks.