Micro-Star MS-8806 TNT2 32Mb AGPhantom graphic card

Micro-Star MS-8806 TNT2
32Mb AGPhantom graphic card
Friday, August 06, 1999

Introduction

There are more and more motherboard manufacturers to built graphic cards nowadays. Micro-Star, a 1500 employees company, successful as a leading mainboard manufacturer established in 1986, is also building graphic card with a surprising savoir-faire. Their new product, the MS-8806 3D AGPhantom TNT2 graphic card, has nothing to envy to any similar products manufactured by the great names of the graphic card arena. Even if I was at first a bit skeptical about the performances of this graphic card, I soon realized that MSI were not only very serious peoples when they were designing their motherboards but they were as serious when they were designing their graphic cards...

The features

Coming with a fan and heatsink assembly factory installed the MS-8806 is very well cooled and is most likely to support some Overclocking. As a fact, the drivers coming with this graphic card are including an application that allows you to tweak the core and memory operating frequencies as it can be seen on the following snap shot:

The MS-8806 is supporting both the AGP 2X and 4X sideband addressing, single-pass multi-texturing, 32-bit rendering, per-pixel mip-mapping and optimized Direct3D acceleration. Video acceleration and as most TNT2 graphic cards full motion video playback is supported. Is also optionally offer Flat Panel and TV-OUT NTSC/PAL TV- System support.

The software bundle

The software bundle coming with this graphic card is including some utilities such as: the video drivers, the Adobe Acrobat readers, a media player, a users guide and some useful links like a link to get the most up to date MSI drivers for this graphic card. Unfortunately, no games are included with this software bundle.

Continued on the next page with: The performance tests results

MS-8806
nVIDIA Riva TNT2

High performance 128-bit 2D/3D/Video Graphics accelerator. Up to 1920120032bit *75hz Design for PC Game Fanatic. 24-bit Z-Buffer,8-bit Stencil Buffer Twin-Texel 32-bit Graphics pipeline. AGP 2X/4X Direct-Memory Execute Mode ( AGP DIME) Super Hi-End 3D AGP Engine. 8M triangles/sec Triangle setup Engine. 250M pixels/sec Trilinear Fill Rate. 32Mbyte Frame Buffer. Hi-Quality TV-OUT NTSC/PAL TV- System.(Optional) Digital Flat Panel (DFP) Support (Optional) Open-GL ICD for Windows(R) 9X and NT
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