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| MSI RX1300Pro TD256E |
| Manufacturer |
MSI (Microstar Intl.) |
| Category |
Video Cards |
| GPU |
Radeon X1300 |
| Type |
PCIe |
| Ram |
256Mb DDR2 |
| Editor |
Kwok Yao Chim |
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"... a decent performer using its AVIVO technology which gives better image quality on video playback."
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MSI's budget gaming video card put through it paces...
Introduction
With all the major brand names racing to flex their muscles with their high-end graphics cards using the latest GPUs such as Nvidia Geforce 7900 series or the ATI Radeon X1900 series, its no wonder that a lot of budget users are left drooling and dreaming about owning one.
But the fact is, budget video cards has a quicker and higher rate of sale in high street stores and online stores, hence providing a greater turnover than those of high-end performance cards. It is a battle ground for big brand names to produce the best performing budget graphics cards by getting the correct mixture of RAM, heatsink and additional features.
MSI has released a budget gamer's graphics card based on the ATI GPU chipset Radeon X1300 aptly named MSI RX1300Pro TD256E.
The ATI Radeon X1300 bring enhanced visuals with an improved 3D architecture combined with ATI's new Avivo technology. The X1300 uses a 90nm GPU processor and a new ultra-threaded 3D processing architecture coupled with an advanced memory controller.
" Radeon X1300’s 90-nanometer process technology and ultra-threaded core architecture combines power and efficiency and supports for Shader Model 3.0 to deliver new High Dynamic Range visual effects, enhanced realism with Adaptive Anti-aliasing and lightening fast performance in OpenGL and DirectX® 9 games."
The X1300 is also capable of CrossFire Multi-GPU Power which allows you to combine two X1300 cards and share the GPU processing load.
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"Designed from the ground up with GPU sharing in mind, the Radeon X1300 series allows you to get incredible gaming performance by adding a second Radeon® X1300 graphics card for ultra fast performance that works with all games, all the time.
To achieve optimal performance-class results from your Radeon X1300 CrossFire platform, combine two Radeon X1300 graphics cards with a motherboard based on ATI's CrossFire Xpress™ 1600 chipset.
- Supertiling for optimized gaming performance
- CrossFire’s “supertiling” GPU-sharing speeds rendering by evenly dividing the graphics processing, intelligently alternating the rendering workload to each Radeon GPU for efficient load balancing, and optimized performance.
- CrossFire boosts image quality
- ATI’s CrossFire boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating the need to crank down screen resolutions to get the high image quality you want.
- CrossFire ignites with the higher anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, shading, and texture settings you desire. Adjust your display configurations, experiment with your advanced 3D settings, and check the effect with a real-time 3D-rendered preview within ATI’s Catalyst® Control Center to rule your CrossFire system."
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The X1300 series also include the new video-in video-out technology aptly names AVIVO, which brings vibrant colours, ultra sharp images and smooth High Definition video playback.
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"Connect your Radeon X1300 with your home entertainment devices for digital convergence, enhanced with ATI’s revolutionary new Avivo video and display technology platform. Avivo technology creates vibrant colors, ultra sharp images, true-to-life image reproduction, and the smoothest HD video playback ever offered by ATI.
Avivo redefines the ultimate visual experience for today’s PCs, and sets the stage for tomorrow’s exciting possibilities. Check your board for specific support of Avivo features.
- Sharp video and photos
Avivo enhances your digital video and photos, creating sharp images, crisp text, and vivid color. Boost the video quality captured by your Media PC and Personal Video Recorder with advanced 3D comb filtering and automatic gain control. Improve analog video signal quality and reduce annoying artifacts. Maintain clean images even at high display resolutions with Avivo’s video scaling technology. Large or small Avivo makes your displays come to life when viewing digital photography and video
- True-to-Life Image Reproduction
Get high image fidelity with CRT and LCD displays, TVs, rear projection and plasma TVs, as well as projectors. Avivo introduces new life to colors across the entire spectrum with an advanced 10-bit-per-color display engine. Gain better digital signal reception, and maintain cleaner video with hardware noise reduction. Enjoy high-quality analog video capture enabled by robust 12-bit analog-to-digital converters.
- Smooth Video Playback
Free your CPU to devote more processing power to other applications with Avivo’s hardware accelerated processing. Transform your movies and improve every image sent to your display with hardware post processing for superb stutter-free viewing. Avivo gives your video playback the smooth, fluid motion you want from your digital content.
- Universal Display Connectivity
Certain ATI graphics cards with Avivo technology can dissolve connectivity barriers between PCs and consumer electronic devices. Outputs for virtually any TV via analog or digital interface, such as s-video, DVI or HDMI™, are complemented by inputs for cable, broadcast TV and other video sources. And advanced dual-link DVI interfaces support the largest high-resolution LCD displays."
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I previously owned a Radeon 9700 Pro and back then I was absolutely amazed by the colours and vibrance it produced. This time round when benching the Radeon X1300, I was again surprised that the colour and vibrance still bettered than the newer Geforce series.
But some how I always knew that ATI could make that gaming experience a bit better by adding atmospheric sensations through vibrant colours and now they are taking advantage of the Shader Model 3.0 to give a much more enhanced visual effects.
Well, lets not waste anymore time with technological history and get on with testing the MSI RX1300Pro...
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