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MSI’s New GeForce™ FX 5900 series graphics cards – More Than Cinematic Computing Power --   The Way It’s Meant To Be Played Even Harder MSI™ ignites the cinematic computing revolution with the introduction of the most powerful members of the NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX family—the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and FX 5900 graphics processing units (GPUs). Powered by the second-generation NVIDIA® CineFX™ 2.0 engine with the industry’s only true 128-bit precision processing -- MSI GeForce FX 5900 Series graphics cards take cinematic quality special effects to new levels!! NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 GPUs CineFX II Engine Intellisample Technology High-Precision Graphics nView Multi-display Technology Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) AGP 8X 0.13 Micron Process Technology 400MHz RAMDACs 1.3 Billion texels/ sec fill rate Graphics Core:   256-bit Memory Interface:   256-bit Memory Bandwidth:   27.2GB/sec Fill Rate:   3.6 billion texels/sec. Vertices/sec.   338 million Memory Data Rate:   850MHz Pixels per Clock (peak):   8 Textures per Pixel:   16(Maximum in a single rendering pass with 8 textures applied per clock.) RAMDACs   400MHz Architected for Cg MSI® TWIN FLOW™ COOLING -- BLAZING SPEEDS WITHOUT SWEAT MSI™ is always leading in bring computer users the latest technology and the products with the best engineering process. The MSI GeForce FX 5900 series graphics cards take advantage of the most advanced TWIN FLOW™ COOLING technology. This twin ventilation cooling mechanism enables users to achieve higher performance through faster clock rates, while still remains in comparable low GPU temperature – an unique design from MSI that gamers will appreciate it.        Ultimate PC Gaming with GeForce FX NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX GPUs have firmly established themselves as the solution of choice for gaming enthusiasts, delivering unprecedented 3D graphics performance and cinematic-quality for the most complex immersive environments. The newest offerings, the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and GeForce 5900, further ignite the world of gaming. Building on revolutionary technologies, these two GPUs are powered by the second-generation NVIDIA CineFX™ 2.0 engine and the NVIDIA Intellisample™ high-resolution compression technology (HCT) and provide: • The power of 256 bits for higher memory throughput. • The latest silicon processes for increased stability at high speeds. • Visual quality enhancements. • Advanced pixel shader capabilities that double the floating-point pixel shader power of previous platforms. • Support for the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® fature sets to ensure great visual quality and mesmerizing graphics. MSI Graphics Cards - Beyond 3D MSI’s graphics cards are designed to meet the needs of those users who want performance, feature, and great user experience. On top of the pure performance and breathtaking speed, MSI's FX5900 series graphics cards also come with MSI unique features such as: MSI 3D! Turbo Experience™, MSI Live Update Series™, MSI GoodMEM™, MSI LockBox™, MSI WMinfo™ for free, which computer users will like so much. That’s not all. MSI also provides a customized 5.1 channel audio supported DVD playback software, ensuring easy DVD application as well as allowing the users to enjoy DVD movie playbacks at home. With a design rich in standard features, MSI’s FX 5900 series graphics cards definitely appeal to home users and performance enthusiasts alike! For computer gamers, MSI’s FX5900 graphics cards come with a few hot full version game tiles like Duke Nukem : Manhattan Project, The Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and 7 in 1 game experience CD. Professional video editing softwares like InterVideo WinProducer / WinCoder and InterVideo WinProducer / WinCoder Professional Users' Pack are also included in the package. Below are some of the comments from worldwide computer professionals said about MSI graphics cards. Editor from www.vr-zone.com wrote: "MSI, like I've said many times before, always includes a great bundle with their graphics cards, adding more value to their product with every additional bundled item, with overall value being a very important factor in consumer's purchasing decisions in the mid-ranged performance market." Editor from www.extremeoverclocking.com wrote: “The MSI FX5200-TDR128 is a really nice product. All of the features with the support for the new games is a bonus when one considers that the card is just over $100. Though there are not many games that are optimized for use only with DX9, the card should do well until there are games released. Even if the card is not used for gaming, it is still a good piece of hardware for the consumer who wants to or does use their computer as their home multimedia center. Hats off to MSI for making a nice product.“ Editor from www.legitreviews.com wrote: "Now aside from performance, this card also comes with the MSI package - one of the best bundles Legit Reviews has seen to date; especially with MSI's Media Center II Deluxe + Remote Controller! The MSI bundle gives you everything you need to start using this card to its fullest ability. " "To give a quick recap: MSI's FX5200-TDR128 offers the newest technology (DirectX 9 support, TV-out, etc), a great package (10 3D games, about 20 different kinds of software and utilities, Remote Controller, etc), and respectable performance all in a budget-level video card. So if you are stuck with a GeForce 4 MX440, or lower, and you want to upgrade so you will have full DirectX 8 and 9 support without breaking the bank, then this just may be the card for you! " Technology Behind The Ultimate Power   More Bandwidth Means More Games Anisotropic Filtering and Antialiasing CineFX 2.0 Engine Vertex Shaders 2.0+ Pixel Shaders 2.0+ True 128-bit Precision Unified Driver Architecture UltraShadow Technology Graphics Quality --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More Bandwidth Means More Games All the pixel-pushing power in the world won't really benefit a GPU if it cannot be supplied with enough memory bandwidth. Now today's high-end cards employ both antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. The need for consistently high FPS with massive AA and AF is where it's at. The GeForce FX 5900 GPUs uses sophisticated bandwidth-saving techniques in the form of improved Z, color, and texture compression. However, even with these in place, the bandwidth requirements of high FSAA and anisotropic filtering still exact a heavy toll on usable bandwidth. With a 256-bit wide memory interface, the GeForce FX 5900 GPUs double the path to and from memory and enable twice the amount of data to be transferred per cycle. The wider path of this new memory interface and controller increases overall performance and efficiency for memory transfers and allocations. back > Anisotropic Filtering and Antialiasing The FX 5900 GPUs also boasts what NVIDIA terms Intellisample HCT technology, which delivers the next step in performance and visual quality, compression color, texture, and z data. The Intellisample HCT technology leverages the memory bandwidth efficiency techniques and image quality technologies of the original Intellisample and maximizes its effectiveness for the new 256-bit memory architecture. Intellisample HCT adds the industry’s most advanced texture, color and z-compression algorithms, for up to 4:1 lossless compression of these prominent bandwidth-crippling 3D functions. Previous versions of Intellisample technology insured pristine image quality by determining when texture, color and z could be compressed without losing image quality based on several factors. Intellisample HCT technology has special algorithms that increase the likelihood for successful compression of texture, color and z. Furthermore, this new technology introduces improved antialiasing techniques and advanced anisotropic filtering algorithms. NVIDIA Intellisample HCT includes a “quality” mode that delivers true anisotropic filtering and that allows programmers to achieve unmatched visual clarity for every portion of the scene, even difficult areas representing surfaces viewed from a sharp angle or from a distance. Intellisample HCT technology also applies advanced techniques including a crossbar memory architecture, advanced texture caching, the most advanced algorithm for z-culling, and fast z-clears to make the most out of the available memory bandwidth. back > CineFX 2.0 Engine NVIDIA also made advances with its vertex and pixel shader engines, making the jump from CineFX 1.0 to CineFX 2.0. CineFX 2.0 still features vertex and pixel processing engines with support for long shader programs and advanced programming techniques, but doubles the performance of floating point pixel shading operations over the GeForce FX 5800 Ultra. CineFX 2.0 offers the maximum color accuracy and most accurate shader precision available and does not have to "approximate" 128-bit operations and "bloat" the results. CineFX also supports 16- or 32-bit floating point or integer instructions for legacy titles. back > Vertex Shaders 2.0+ With the CineFX engine, vertex-processing capabilities are greatly expanded while programming complexity is greatly reduced, giving game developers the power to achieve any effect imaginable. Fully generalized loops and branches can be data-dependent, giving the CineFX engine a much more straightforward programming methodology than previous architectures. One shader can be written to encompass all the skinning methods and operations, and since the shader can branch on a per-vertex basis, it is not required to break up the model. With these advances, the CineFX engine shatters previous vertex shading limitations. back > Pixel Shaders 2.0+ The NVIDIA CineFX engine raises pixel shading to a first-class programmable citizen of the graphics pipeline, and gives developers a host of new capabilities for controlling pixels and producing effects that are only limited by the imagination. back > True 128-bit Precision GeForce FX continues to be the only GPU family to offer true 128-bit full floating-point color through out the pipeline for vivid, life-like images with the same dynamic range and subtle changes in hues that are prevalent in feature films. back > Unified Driver Architecture GeForce FX GPUs benefit from the industry's only truly Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), long considered the gold standard for software drivers. In addition, GeForce FX GPUs mark the third generation of NVIDIA nView multi-display technology and the third generation of NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control for matching colors when using more than one display. GeForce FX GPUs also support Microsoft's Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) solution for state-of-the-art video quality and multiple active video streams that fully leverage the power of the graphics engine. back > UltraShadow Technology This is going to be the main seller for the GeForce FX 5900 GPUs. New multiple shadow rendering is going to make games ultra realistic. With copies of the leaked Doom III beta circulating around the web, people who have tried to play it on their decked out gaming systems have experienced massively slow frame rates due to the enormous amounts of shadows being used. The NVIDIA UltraShadow technology allows game engines with multiple shadow passes calculated from multiple light sources, for example next-generation titles such as Doom III, to do the needed calculations and render those shadows much faster and efficiently. Users might ask why process shadows when you really just want to play the game? The thing is game engines are becoming more sophisticatedly real, incorporating every 3D physical aspect in real life and rendering it on your 2D monitor. Accurate shadows are the key in making realistic and believable 3D scenes on your 2D monitor. The complex interactions between multiple light sources and numerous objects and characters involve multiple-pass programming. For every frame, every light source must be analyzed relative to every object. The patent-pending UltraShadow technology can be applied to today's games to introduce stunning visual effects that create distinctive looks and digital environments, that can set a game apart from the competition. back > Graphics Quality NVIDIA released preview pictures of the real time demos, which also shown at this year's E3 show. These pictures are stills illustrating the level of graphics quality the GeForce FX 5900 GPUs can achieve with fluid frame rates at high resolutions. Vulcan: God of Fire demo This demo shows off realistic fire, smoke, and glow using volumetric texturing and render-to-texture techniques and uses multiple light sources and skin shading using true Blinn Phong shaders. Dusk: Dawn's twin! Nvidia first introduced Dawn to show off their cinematic shading and high quality features. Now they're showing off Dusk, Dawn's twin sister. Dusk features realistic sking using a custom fragment shader with shadowing, diffuse, specular colour, bump, and a subsurface scattering effect. Her hair is entirely made from geometry thanks to the performance delivered by the FX 5900's vertex shaders. back >   For all MSI Press Release, please go to here.