MSI Starforce 816 Review
Written
: 10/25/2000Nvidia's newest chipset, aimed squarely at the OEM and corporate desktop, not to mention the value gamer segment, is the Geforce2MX. MSI's Starforce 816 w/TV-Out is a 32meg AGP implementation of the Geforce2MX, and utilizes Nvidia's "Twinview" technology to enable simultaneous TV-Out. Not a bad deal for $139. But how does it perform, and what does the MX mean? Before we take a look, just want to thank Mina Hsu at MSI for providing us with the card!
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Supports 32MB SDRAM
General Features-- Optimized for Direct3D acceleration with complete support for Microsoft(R) -- DirectTM X 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 -- 256-bit 2D and 3D graphics accelerator -- 350MHz RAMDAC -- 128-bit Memory Interface -- Twin-View Architecture -- Integrated Dual 135Mhz LVDS/TMDS Transmitter -- nVIDIA Shading Rasteriser -- 4 Texels per Clock -- Integrated second-generation transform and lighting engine |
| -- 32-bit color with 32-bit Z/stencil -- Cube Environment mapping -- DirectTM X and S3TC texture compression -- 700 Mtexel fill rate -- 20Mtriangles/sec setup -- 2.8GB/second memory bandwidth -- AGP 4x fast writes -- Supports up to 4 display interface-CRT, TV and Digital Panel Interface
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