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Date Posted: April 15, 2002

We've recently been lucky enough to get our hands on the new MSI G4MX440-T Video card. For a little background on the G4MX440-T, It's based on the GeForce 4 Mx chipset, which is geared towards the casual gamer in both price and performance. The G4MX440-T is the card most geared towards the gaming novice and goes for about $139.99.

Specifications
Features:
-- 256-bit 3D and 2D graphics accelerator
-- Integrated second-generation Transform and Lighting engines
-- 34 million triangles per second setup engine with Z-cull and Z-clear
-- 1.1 billion texels per second
-- 1.3 pixel combiner operations
-- 32-bit color with 32-bit z/stencil
-- Cube environment mapping
-- DirectX® and S3TC® texture compression
-- Digital Vibrance Control
-- Dual CRTC/Simultaneous Dual Display (same or different surfaces)
-- Integrated dual LVDS Transmitter supporting LCD panels up to 2048x1536
-- Integrated 350 MHz Palette-DAC for analog VGA monitors up to 2048x1536
-- Integrated NTSC/PAL TV encoder supporting resolutions up to 1024x768
-- DVD- and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i ATSC format
-- MPEG-2 hardware decode, including Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform and Motion
Compensation
Compatiblity:
-- Supports VIP1.1 interface
-- Supports Microsoft® DirectX® 8.0, 7.0, 6.0, and 5.0 (IDCT)
-- Fully compliant support for OpenGL 1.2 for all Windows operating systems and Linux®
-- Up to 6.4 GB/second memory bandwidth
-- Supports 128-bit DDR, 64-bit DDR, and 32-bit DDR SDRAM
Graphics Modes:
-640x480 8/16/32 bit colors with 150Hz
-800x600 8/16/32 bit colors with 150Hz
-1024x768 8/16/32 bit colors with 120Hz
-1152x864 8/16/32 bit colors with 120Hz
-1280x1024 8/16/32 bit colors with 100Hz
-1600x1200 8/16/32 bit colors with 85Hz
-1920x1200 8/16/32 bit colors with 75Hz-
-2048x1536 8/16/32 bit colors with 60Hz
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