Date 2005-01-07
Provider: MSI
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
MSI NX6800 Ultra video card
Today we have a really fast card on our testbench. We will look at a heavyweight card from MSI which is called NX6800 Ultra which is a AGP card even though
PCI-E is getting slowly more popular. But in the meantime while waiting for PCI-E to grow we need fast cards for AGP users so this review will show you some game benchmarks
and some overclocking from our side to give you an idea of how the card performs.
About MSI:
Founded in August 1986, MSI has continued to uphold a business philosophy that stresses "Award-winning product quality and outstanding customer service." MSI specializes in the design and manufacture of mainboards and add-on cards. Surmounting a challenging industry environment, we've raced to the head of the pack and are now ranked within Taiwan's Top Three and the world's Top Five mainboard manufactures.
Specifications:
Graphics Core:
256-bit
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 35.2GB/sec
Fill Rate: 6.4 billion texels/sec.
Vertices/sec. 600 million
Memory Data Rate: 1100MHz
Pixels per Clock (peak): 16
Textures per Pixel: 16
RAMDACs 400MHz
Well as usual the boxes are very colorful with a big MSI logo and the name of the card. On the back we have specifications and features that this specific card holds.
It will be interesting to see if the card is as good as the package it came in.
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Well as always there is some software included with the card and also a adapter to DVI.
The software is the following: 3d album, Windvd, driver cd, Restoreit, Windvd creator, and Media center.
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As we can see the cooler and heatsink is huge on this thing and I promise you that your computer will make quite a bit more sound but
hey that's something you have to live with if you want this extreme performance. On the right picture you can actually see the nice heatsink from the side of the card.
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Yes it is true you need two free molex connectors to power this beast up so get a splitter of somekind if you don't have two free ones.
On the back they have mounted the holding plate for the heatsink itself so it will stay in place.
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One DVI adapter is included if your screen does not have a DVI cable so you will still be able to run this card on your computer.
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