Page 2 - Installation, features and inside the box
What's in the boxA trend nowadays that I notice a lot is that we see less and less software in the box. It makes sense as manufacturers try to sell the product as cheap as possible. Including software raises the price. Prolink figured, hey let's go all the way and thus no less than 8 CD's where included. Software we found was of course the driver disk, some demo disks and next to that full versions of: Outbreak, Ballistics and Le Mans 24 Hours. Next to that you probably remembered that I said the card is VIVO. So Prolink threw in WinDVD4 and PowerDirector 2.5 to playback movies and of course record and edit them with PowerDirector which is quite adequate software. So the amount of software here is nothing to complain about.
The included goodies
Next to the software you'll find a connector cable for Composite & SVideo in and outputs, a CRT->DVI-I dongle to convert your digital DVI connector into a CRT type connection. Ideal if you want to use two monitors. Also we'll find a small composite cable, enough to get you started.
Installation
It's really not hard to install a graphics card yourself nowadays. Especially with brands like ATI and NVIDIA who use unified driver sets. If you have a really new product then make sure you have the latest drivers on your HD. Insert the graphics card, boot up windows, run the driver installation, then restart and you are set to go.
It's that easy these days. We did not run into any issues installing this graphics card.
Specifications
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Key Features & Benefits |
NVIDIA CineFX Engine
Powers cinematic effects beyond imagination. With advanced vertex and pixel shader capabilities, brings more realistic shaders and lighting for characters; more lifelike character animation; and sophisticated effects and looks that can be applied to the entire scene in real-time. | NVIDIA High-Precision Graphics
By combining the incredible dynamic range of today's state-of-the-art 3D motion pictures with 128-bit studio-precision color, the GeForce FX brings you the industry's best image quality for the most demanding applications. | NVIDIA Intellisample Technology
Intellisample's intelligent gamma-adjusted antialiasing and advanced adaptive anisotropic filtering deliver silky-smooth, ultra-realistic visuals at lightning speeds. | AGP 8X bus implementation
Provides double the bandwidth of AGP 4X-1.1GB/sec. vs. 2.1GB/sec. AGP 8X enables more complex models and detailed textures. | Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
Industry's fastest RAMDACs support QXGA displays with ultra-high, ergonomic refresh rates. | Architected for Cg
Ensures that the newest, cutting-edge special effects in applications will run flawlessly. Speeds up content creation so game developers can get their new games out to PC users faster than ever before. | Video Mixing Renderer (VMR)
Harnesses the power of the 3D graphics engine to empower the user to view multiple video windows simultaneously with superior quality, and avoids the problems associated with video overlay. | Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)
Allows the user to adjust color controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colors in all conditions. | OpenGL 1.4 Optimizations and Support
Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all OpenGL applications. | Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Optimizations and Support
Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX 9 applications. | .13 m process technology
Delivers higher performance through faster clock rates - more MHz
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DX8 |
DX9 |
GeForce FX Implementation of DX9 | |
Pixel Shader |
Version 1.4 |
Version 2.0 |
Version 2.0+ | |
Instructions |
32 |
64 |
Thousands | |
Constants |
8 |
32 |
Thousands | |
Registers |
6 |
12 |
32 | |
Vertex Shader |
Version 1.1 |
Version 2.0 |
Version 2.0+ | |
Instructions |
128 |
256 |
256 | |
Constants |
96 |
256 |
256 | |
Registers |
12 |
12 |
16 |
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System Reguirements | |
Intel Pentium III, AMD Duron or Athlonª class processor or higher | |
128MB system RAM | |
AGP compliant motherboard with an AGP 2.0 slot | |
10 MB of available hard disk space (50 MB for Full installation) | | CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive | |
Windows 95 OSR2, 98 or higher, ME, 2000, XP, or Windows¨ NT4.0
(Service Pack 5 or 6) | | VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor |
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Right, let's get acquainted with the board shall we.
