MSI to Sell GeForce FX 5600 Based Graphics Cards With 256MB of DDR SDRAM!

by Anton Shilov
05/02/2003 | 04:32 PM

Micro Start International will shortly start to sell its NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600-based graphics cards, PC Watch Japanese web-site reported today. It is very interesting to note that MSI has decided to install 256MB of DDR SDRAM memory on a model, making it the first pure consumer graphics card with such huge onboard frame-buffer.

The company will begin to sell its FX5600-TD256 and FX5600-VTDR128 graphics cards on the 10^th of May this year in Japan. The former is equipped with D-Sub, DVI-I and TV-Out connectors; its main feature is 256MB of onboard DDR SDRAM memory. The latter is definitely a more interesting product since it also boasts with VIVO capabilities and comes with a remote controller that can be utilised using MSI’s Multimedia Center Deluxe II software that allows to generally simplify executing multimedia on a PC. MSI FX5600-TD256 and FX5600-VTDR128 graphics cards are clocked at 325MHz for core and 550MHz for memory.

The pricing of the solutions is not really low, but also cannot be considered as too high. The FX5600-TD256 will cost about $225, whereas the FX5600-VTDR128 with exciting remote controller will come to approximately $205.