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MSI GeForce FX 5900XT Video Card

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Performance
Overall rating82
Overall speed: Game scores are the average speed in frames per second. Good
Halo (1024 by 768 pixels at 32-bit color depth) fps47
Halo (1600 by 1200 pixels at 32-bit color depth) fps24
Splinter Cell (1024 by 768 pixels at 32-bit color depth) fps82
Splinter Cell (1600 by 1200 pixels at 32-bit color depth) fps47
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (1024 by 768 pixels at 32-bit color depth) fps97
Wolfenstein Enemy Territory (1600 by 1200 pixels at 32-bit color depth) fps67
Unreal Tournament (1280 by 1024 pixels at 32-bit color depth) fps58
Unreal Tournament (1600 by 1200 pixels at 32-bit color depth) fps34
FeaturesVery good
Direct X supportFull DirectX 9 support (hardware acceleration)
Connectors/ extrasDVI-to-15 pin adapter, power splitter, video I/O
Games and utilities includedWinDVD Creator Plus, MSI Media Center Deluxe II, WinDVD 5.1 Channel, RestoreIT! Pro, MSI 3D Desktop, 7 in 1 Games Collection, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Operating systems supportedWindows 98, Me, 2000, and XP; Linux
Support policies3-year warranty; 9-hour daily toll-free support
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User Reviews for MSI GeForce FX 5900XT Video Card

  • Reviewed by: toonz56

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: A solid product; very good quality board. Easy to install and get up and running.

    Weaknesses: No games were included with my board. That would have been nice. I'll still have to fiddle around with trying to find the sweet spot for which driver version to use on my system, but runs quite decent.

    Overall Evaluation: Best gfx board I've seen. Quality construction, runs like a charm tho like I said for my particular system I'll need to find the right driver set to find that sweet spot. But all in all it runs pretty decent. Very similar to ATI's 9800 Pro, but I have no luck with ATI on my system. Nothing against them, they just don't play nice with my setup. I have yet to overclock it to squeeze out the last drop of power, but will enjoy getting there.

  • Reviewed by: rajiv_kul2002

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Good, Fast and pretty cheap for the performance

    Weaknesses: Games Bundle is pretty old, (what the heck the card is good)

    Overall Evaluation: Ordered this card from Amazon.Com, got it after about 2 months cause a friend of mine carried it from US. Got it in a retailed version with full set of games, softwares etc.. Very good when compared to Geforce 4MX 440 my old card, runs pretty quiet as well. Noticable difference in FPS in each and every game I play, highly recommended for a gamer.. also comes with VIVO (Video In Video Out).

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