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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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The already crowded graphics retail market got even more claustrophobic with a new mid-range contender from ATI. The Radeon X1650 XT is the latest in ATI's bid to topple the GeForce 7600 GT from its price performance perch and from our benchmarks, it looks like the real deal. Here's MSI's take on it.
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The MSI MEGA mPC945 system is based around the Intel 945G and is compatible with all Socket 775 Intel processors. Under the glossy white hood, the mPC 945's two DDR2 memory slots will support up to 2GB of dual channel DDR2-533/667 memory. In terms of storage space, the system has one 3GB/s Serial ATA II channel and one IDE controller. There is onboard video care of the integrated Intel GMA950 graphics card, it comes part and parcel with the Intel 945G chipset. If you want to use a better videocard the system will accommodate single or double slot PCI Express graphics card. PCSTATS would advise a Geforce 7800GTX or equivalent videocard if you plan on doing any gaming at all... as you'll see in the benchmarks.
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Monday, October 30, 2006
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The GeForce 7950GX2 is nVIDIA's flagship graphics card du jour, and the first true dual core, dual slot PCI Express videocard from the boys in Santa Carla. While there have been a handful of single card dual GPU videocards introduced, these have all been brand specific attempts (like the Gigabyte GV-3D1 dual 6600GT and GV-3D1-68GT dual 6800GT). The GeForce 7950GX2 brings SLI power to every PCI Express platform! For SLI compatible motherboards (and anyone with really deep pockets), it's possible to run two GeForce 7950GX2 videocards together in SLU for a total of four GPUs rendering simultaneously! That's just ridiculously sweet!
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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If CrossFire isn't your dual-graphics brand of choice, MSI also offers a similarly specified board called the K9N Platinum based on Nvidia's Nforce 570 chipset. There are both SLI and non-SLI versions available of the latter, too. But enough of the alternatives. Let's find out what the K9A Platinum has to offer.
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Friday, October 20, 2006
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Liquid cooling may sound cool to the average consumer but most of them would not want the hassle of installation. MSI has taken it out of your hands as its new Radeon X1950 XTX now comes with a liquid cooling kit courtesy of Thermaltake. Read on for our thoughts on this special card.
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Monday, October 16, 2006
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Not so long ago Nvidia launched the nForce 500 chipset's for AMD's new DDR2 capable socket AM2. By now you should all be aware of the minimal performance increases DDR2 has brought to the A64 architecture and it's low latency on-die memory controller, but from my perspective the most difficult aspect of the AM2 and nForce 500 launch is leaving behind the oh-so mature motherboard choices available for s939 in place of brand new 'unproven' boards, so to speak. With that point made, anyone who's eying up AMD's recent and significant price drops across the board will be asking one question - which AM2 board will rock my world?
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The MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE is the definition of high end gaming hardware! The MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE videocard is based on the nVidia reference design, which is a combination of two separate videocard PCBs which have been stacked together to form a two-slot device. There are two GeForce 7950GX2 GPUs, each with 512MB of memory for a total of 1GB dedicated to all things graphical rendering. MSI's NX7950GX2-T2D1GE slips delicately into a single PCI Express x16 slot, but occupies two case bracket spaces. It has one TV-output connector and two DVI connectors, analog to digital adaptors are included. The card supports component output and S-Video output. The GeForce 7950GX2 GPU has the same features; 24 pixel rendering pipelines, 8 vertex pipelines, 256bit memory controller, etc., however the core and memory clock speeds are set slightly lower.
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MSI introduces the P310: their small "Mega Player" that enables users to not only listen to their favorite audio tracks, but also watch movies and view photos with it.
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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Many vendors have been releasing their GeForce 7900 GS products recently so it's only a matter of time before MSI, one of the larger graphics cards manufacturers followed suit. That happens to be the NX7900GS-T2D256E-HD, which comes with HDCP support. Read on for the full review and our take.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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Since Intel aren?t intending on releasing a new enthusiast level chipset for their processors for sometime, we are starting to see new revisions of older motherboards released like the ASUS P5W-DH - which is simply a P5WD2-E Premium with Core 2 support. Today we are looking at two new motherboards from MSI and DFI which are designed for Core 2 and Core 2 Extreme processors.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
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In the past, MSI has made solid motherboards for the enthusiast that pack a punch for the cost, and provide plenty of overclocking options for the average tweaker. Hopefully MSI can stay true to their past with their new AM2 boards.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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Overclocking wise, we managed to push the CPU bus on the MSI to a heady 410MHz or so with perfect stability, giving most Core 2 Duo overclockers a decent headroom to explore should retail examples do the same. Combined with the generous voltage ranges available and adjustment over the common features and the board shouts pretty loud in that respect. Add the feature-rich nature of a P965 + ICH8R mainboard augmented with a Firewire controller and decent Ethernet and audio ICs and the P965 Platinum makes the right noises there as well.
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Thursday, September 7, 2006
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Features on the K9A Platinum come just short of the 40 point maximum that is possible on our chart. Performance is right there among the best of the AMD AM2 platform so far. The retail bundle of the K9A Platinum is a bit of an unknown at the moment, as the product has not launched in the United States to retail as of yet.
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Monday, September 4, 2006
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Looking to run some of the newest games without having your wallet or wife/girlfriend come after you? Or maybe you're just looking for a quieter graphics solution without sacrificing performance? Check out our look at the NX7600GT and find out for yourself!
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Friday, September 1, 2006
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MSI's NX7300GS-TD256E seems to manage just about acceptable framerates when using a resolution of 1024x768 and might even be tolerable in certain games at 1280x1024. Play around with the settings a bit, sacrifice some of the fancier rendering features and it should cope with the majority of current games. Overall, MSI's NX7300GS-TD256E is a fine card, but certain omissions from its bundle mean its good points are overshadowed by a performance deficit to Radeon X1300 Pro based SKUs.
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