Monday, May 15, 2000

The features (continued)

The MS-8809's drivers are nearly identical to those supplied by Nvidia. Micro-Star's drivers are, in fact, very close to the 368 reference drivers that we typically use to test all GeForce 256 cards that cross our desks.

MSI chose to supply its own Overclocking utility, as you can see pictured below.

The software bundle

The software bundle that accompanies the MS-8809, includes: video drivers, Adobe Acrobat Reader, an installation guide, and a few useful links to the Micro-Star site for the purpose of getting the latest drivers, and such. A second CD contains Cyberlink's PowerDVD utility (for playing DVDs, of course). Unfortunately, not a single game was included.

Next: The test setup.