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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
Being geared more toward the "casual gamer," the MSI G4MX440-T has a software bundle that any hardcore gamer would respect. The bundle features No One Lives Forever, a personal favorite of mine, Aquanox, Sacrifice, as well as a 7 in 1 Game cd packed with demos of Ballistics, Tom Clancy's Rogue Spear-Black Thorn, Tom Clanc'ys Ghost Recon, Commanche 4, Fallout Tactics, Swat 3: Close Quarters Battle, and Serious Sam : The first encounter. This is more than enough to get some one interested in games, and features some of the better games of the past few years.
The card comes with 64mb of DDR graphics memory chips, which operate at 250mhz.
The first thing you notice when you see the MX is the GPU cooler. It can best be described as spherical golden cooler, with a shiny sticker on top saying MSI.
The rest of the card is pretty simple, and the exterior interface has a s-video out plug and the typical RGB connector for the monitor. The card is pretty simple, and has enough features to keep the audience the card is aimed at, the budget or casual gamer, busy playing games and not worrying about frame rates.
Benchmarks & Final Words
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