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NX8600GT-T2D256EZ

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Core/Memory

540 MHz Core
256 MB GDDR3 1400 MHz Memory

On-board Function

Dual-link DVI Support
HDTV Support
TV-out + Dual DVI Connectors

Heat-Pipe Cooling Solution

Features

Afterburner
co-development by MSI and Rivatuner, MSI releases the ultimate graphics card utility “Afterburner”. This utility enables all MSI graphics cards users to boost performance and to monitor all kinds of critical information in real-time. Afterburner is a completely free utility which is compatible with almost all MSI graphics cards.

MSI Dual CoreCell Technology
Questing for a system which possesses ultimate multimedia performance and silent operation, MSI Dual CoreCell comes with the perfect signal purification ability, which is necessary for higher multimedia quality and system performance.

MSI Vivid is an easy tool to enhance " image quality ". It can helps users to get better image quality in viewing " Digital photos, document & games "
• Vivid brings the easiest way to optimize graphic quality.
• Colorize your vision when browsing digital photos!!!
• Sharpen characters edge!!!
• Enhance contrast when playing game!!!

DOT Express (Dynamic Overclocking Technology Express)

MSI DOT Express Technology is the most advanced Dynamic Overclocking Technology Express enabling supreme overclocking, cooling and de-noise performance. It is an advanced overclocking engine, designed to deliver up to 10% extra performance and greatly enhances the synchronized GPU & DDR performance.

MSI StarOSD is a very helpful utility for the avid PC gamers. Users can easily access the StarOSD to adjust the contrast, brightness, overclocking and temperature according to each user’s individual preference.
Note:Star OSD function that be used on different games has some difference cause the game different design.

MSI Live Update 4 is a single utility software that automatically checks BIOS, driver and utility updates and installs for you , which can save your time for searching and lower the risk while updating.

MSI Live Update online

MSI Live Update online is designed to automatically download and update the BIOS and driver when there’s a new version online. It helps reduce the risk of getting the wrong file and minimize the trouble of searching the files from MSI website.

PhysX™ is designed specifically for hardware acceleration by powerful processors with hundreds of cores. Combined with the tremendous parallel processing capability of the GPU, PhysX™ will provide an exponential increase in physics processing power and will take gaming to a new level delivering rich, immersive physical gaming environments with features such as:

Explosions that cause dust and collateral debris
Characters with complex, jointed geometries for more life-like motion and interaction
Spectacular new weapons with incredible effects
Cloth that drapes and tears naturally
Dense smoke & fog that billow around objects in motion

Free download PhysX™-enabled Warmonger Full Game

NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology is the world’s only C language environment that enables programmers and developers to write software to solve complex computational problems in a fraction of the time by tapping into the many-core parallel processing power of GPUs. With millions of CUDA™-capable GPUs already deployed, thousands of software programmers are already using the free CUDA™ software tools to accelerate applications—from video and audio encoding to oil and gas exploration, product design, medical imaging, and scientific research.
Free download TMPGEnc 4.0 Express

Free download badaboom media converter

Specifications

Geforce 8600GT Chipset Features

HDMI with Audio Integration Solution (Optional)
The NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 Series graphics card supports HDMI with audio integration solution. With a DVI-to-HDMI adapter and an extra signal cord through the bracket, audio source from sound card(S/PDIF) can be integrated into HDMI interface by simply plugging the cord into the pinhead located on graphics card. Only 1 single HDMI cable is required while streaming audio/video data to flat-panel display devices, such as Plasma/LCD TVs, or projector.

*The shipping version DVI-to-HDMI adapter may differ.
NVIDIA CineFX 5.0 Shading Architecture
• Microsoft Vista Features
• Vertex shaders
- Support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Vertex Shader 4.0
- Encompass' Transform and Lighting
- Displacement mapping
- Geometry instancing
• Pixel shades
- Support for DirectX 10.0 Pixel Shader 4.0
- Support for full pixel branching
- Support for Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)
- Infinite-length pixel programs
• Next-generation texture engine
• Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline,with native hardware support for 32 bpp,64 bpp,and 128 bpp rendering modes.
64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending
• Full floating point is supported throughout entire pipeline
• Floating point filtering improves the quality of images in motion
• Floating point texturing drivers new levels of clarity and image detail
• Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and explosions
NVIDIA Intellisample 4.0 Technology
• Advanced 16X anisotropic filtering (up to 128 taps)
• Rotated-grid antialiasing for removing jagged edges for incredible edge quality
• Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture,and z-data at higher resolutions and frame retes
• Fast z-clear
• Support for normal map compression
• New transparent supersampling and transparent multisampling antialiasing modes.
NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technology
• Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games,like id Software's Doom 3
NVIDIA SLI Technology
• Patented hardware and software technology allows two GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance
• Scales performance on over 60 top PC games and applications
• Support for NVIDIA nView multi-display for scalable performance across two displays.
NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
• Patented hardware and software technology allows two GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance
• Three dedicated video engines
• MPEG-2 HD and WMV HD video playback up to 1920 X1080p resolution
• H 264 hardware decode acceleration
• Decryption supported for all standard HD Video formats-AES-128 CTR mode,AES-128 CBC
mode,and AES-128 ECB mode.
• Industry's most advanced video algorithms
• Overlay color temperature correction
• Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support for multiple video windows with full video
quality and features in each window
• Integrated HDTV output.
Advanced Display Functionality
• Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048 X 1536
at 85 Hz
• Dual MIO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and external TV encoders
• Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability
Advanced Engineering
• Designed for PCI Express X16
• Designed for high-speed GDDR3 and GDDR4 memory
• Cooling as low as 24 dB delivered by adcanced thermal managemenet and thermal
monitoring
NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0 Technology
• DVC color controls
• DVC image sharpening controls
API Support
• Complete DirectX support,including the latest version of Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Shader
Model 4.0
• Full OpenGL support,including OpenGL 2.0

Performances

Graphics Bus Technology: PCI Express
Memory Amount: 256MB
Memory Interface: 128-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 22.4
Fill Rate (Billion pixels/sec): 8.64
RAMDACs (MHz): 400

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• All Chipset specs are derived from Nvidia data sheet. For your reference only.

Bundle MSI developed driver and utilities

• MSI Graphics Card Driver
• MSI Live Update Series(Live Graphics Card BIOS & Live Graphics Card Driver)

Automatically online download & update Graphics Card BIOS & Drivers, reduce the risk of getting the wrong files, and never have the trouble on web site searching.

• MSI StarOSD

	StarOSD can monitor system information, adjust monitor figuration, and overclock system.
•	MSI Dual Core Center
• MSI GoodMem
	Automatically release the system memory space, reduce the risk of system hang-up.

• MSI LockBox

Instantly enter the data lock mode when you must leave your system for a while.

• MSI WMIinfo

Automatically list the detail system configuration, it helpful for engineering service people.

• MSI VIVID

Vivid brings the easiest way to optimize graphic quality. Colorize your vision when browsing digital photos!!! Sharpen characters edge!!! Enhance contrast when playing game!!!

• MSI Live

including all real time life information you need, such as Live MSI Product News, Live Daily Information, Live Personal Schedule Manager, Live Search and more.

• MSI Secure DOC
• E-Color
• MediaRing
• ShowShift
• ThinSoft Be Twin
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Microsoft® DirectX

Product Accessories

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