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MSI NX6800 128MB
September 15th, 2004 | by Dan Gaul

Copper ULTRA™
		-	One-Slot Design
		-	Pure Copper Cooler
		-	Advanced Low-Temperature-Soldering Technology
		-	The Latest De-Oxidized Technology

	ULTRA Gear™
		-	Adjustable Fan Speed
		-	Default Mode 2800RPM = 30db(A)
		-	Turbo Mode 4000RPM = 39db(A)

CINEFX 3.0 Shading Architecture

-	Vertex Shaders
-	Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shader 3.0
-	Displacement mapping
-	Geometry Instancing
-	Infinite length vertex programs
-	Pixel Shaders
-	Support for DirectX 9.0 Pixel Shader 3.0
-	Full pixel branching support
-	Support for Multiple Render Targets(MRTs)
-	Infinite length pixel programs
-	Next-Generation Texture Engine
-	Up to 16 textures per rendering pass
-	Support for 16-bit floating point format and 32-bit floating point format
-	Support for non-power of two textures
-	Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
-	DirectX and S3TC texture compression
-	Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline with native hardware support for 32bpp, 64bpp, and 128bpp rendering modes

64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending

-	Full floating point support throughout entire pipeline
-	Floating point filtering improves the quality of images in motion
-	Floating point texturing drives new levels of clarity and image detail
-	Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and explosions

Intellisample 3.0 Technology

-	Advanced 16x anisotropic filtering
-	Blistering-fast antialiasing and compression performance
-	New rotated-grid antialiasing removes jagged edges for incredible edge quality
-	Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data at even higher resolutions and frame rates
-	Fast z-clear
-	High-resolution compression technology (HCT) increases performance at higher resolutions through advances in compression technology

Ultrashadow II Technology

-	Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games, like id Software's Doom III

Advanced Video and Display Functionality

-	Dedicated on-chip video processor
-	MPEG video encode and decode
-	WMV9 decode acceleration
-	Advanced adaptive de-interlacing
-	High-quality video scaling and filtering
-	DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i resolutions
-	Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz.
-	Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and external TV encoders
-	Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window
-	Full NVIDIA® nView™ multi-display technology capability

NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC) 3.0

-	DVC color controls
-	DVC image sharpening controls

Operating Systems

-	Windows XP
-	Windows 2000

API Support

-	Complete DirectX support, including the latest version of Microsoft DirectX 9.0
-	Full OpenGL, including OpenGL 1.5

Supports super high resolution graphics modes

System Requirements

To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements:
-	IBM PC compatible CPU 600MHz or faster
-	Requires an AGP compliant mainboard (AGP 8X port recommended)
-	64MB system memory
-	6X or faster CD-ROM drive
-	Minimum 350W system power supply required
-	Operating Systems Support: Windows® XP/2000