Here are my system specs:

Athlon XP 1.533ghz running Windows XP
512 Meg RAM
Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard
40 Gig Raid hard drive array
Detonator 29.42 drivers

This MSI card comes with all kinds of stuff. Three full games: No One Lives Forever, Aquanox, and Sacrifice. It also comes with demos for Rogue Spear-Black Thorn, Ghost Recon, Commanche 4, Fallout Tactics, Swat 3:Close Quarters, and Serious Sam. It includes a free DVI-to-VGA converter as well as Video-In and TV-Out ability and adapter. It even includes WinProducer/WinCoder which is powerful video editing software. Finally, it comes with Detonator video drivers and the MSI Utilities. These utilities, which are very easy to use, allow easy driver updating and overclocking abilities. To overclock the card, you run the 3D Turbo program and adjust the memory settings. Also, the Detonator drivers are constantly updated, so you don't ever have to fear a lack of support for this card.

As for the video card specs:

It comes with 128 Meg of RAM. It supports 1x, 2x, and 4x AGP structures and has AGP texturing support. This MSI card also supports all resolutions from 640x480 running at 150Hz refresh rates all the way up to 2048x1536 at 60Hz refresh. It includes a hardware transform and lighting engine which helps to make lighting, water, and other effects more realistic. It supports Direct X and Open GL applications. Finally, it includes Accuview Antialiasing technology. To simplify this technology, it blends the lines between objects to make the games on your screen appear smoother.

As for installation, it is relatively easy. There is a well-written manual that explains how to install the card and drivers. Basically, you install the card in the AGP slot on your motherboard then install the drivers. The installation of the drivers involves putting the CD in the drive, clicking on the nVidia VGA drivers option, and following the directions.

The system requirements are as follows:

You must have a Pentium 2/3/4 or a Celeron processor. You also need a motherboard that has an AGP slot. Your monitor must have VGA support at a 640x480 minimum resolution. Finally, you must be running Windows 98 or higher.

I tested this card against a Gainward Ti4400 and an eVGA video card. I didn't go into heavy benchmark tests, but I ran Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 with each of these cards. Without posting all the values, on average the eVGA card had lower FPS (frames-per-second) scores than the MSI card, but the Gainward card scored about two FPS higher than the MSI. Although the FPS was an advantage for the Gainward card, it comes at a much higher $ and doesn't include as many extras as the MSI card. The eVGA card is about the same price, but has very little in the way of a bundle.

The only drawback that I have seen to the MSI Ti4400 card is that it is rather expensive. You can find one for $180-220 right now. If you look around a lot, you might even find one for less.

I would recommend this card over a Ti4600. The reason is that using the included software, you can overclock this card to the same memory speeds that a Ti4600 comes stocked with.

All in all, this is one of the best Ti4400 cards out there right now. I haven't seen any games that it doesn't run with, but I do recommend that you always have the newest possible drivers. I would highly recommend the MSI Ti4400 to anyone considering purchasing a new video card. If you're going to spend the $, then this is the one to get.

Recommended:
Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 210.00