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Box first, to keep you guessing on what the gold and red coloured card will look like.
Not quite the box behemoth MSI give you with their FX5900's, it nonetheless shares a similar design. That bloke on the front sure looks angry at any rate. MSI made a boo-boo in terms of what the box said the card should be. Despite being a non-VIVO board according to the box, they certainly shipped me one, so I'll review it from that point of view. If only to show you VIVO dongles for an opportunity to waffle on a bit longer.
Opening the box reveals the following contents.
The card was plonked firmly in the nearest AGP slot at the time, but fear not, pictures of the board itself soon. As far as bundle goes, you can see the following in the cardboard inner box: VIVO dongle, manual, CD set, power splitter cable and DVI to VGA convertor. Nothing extravagant, no knitting set, crochet needles or flower arranging guides, just graphics card accessories. I can but hope.
Here's the card itself, front and back, sat on top of a £5000 mouse mat.
As you can see, memory heatsinks (aluminium, copper coloured) front and back, red PCB, 4-pin molex power connector and the now regulation VGA, DVI and video output port. As noted earlier, being a VIVO solution, the video output port also allows incoming signals to be processed by the Philips decoder. Here's what you plug in to the port.
S-Video and Composite video input and output. Ah, I forgot to mention earlier when talking about the box contents, but you also get the requisite cables needed to plug into the VIVO breakout box.
I'll talk about the noise later. The fan used is the same as on the back of the FX5900 MSI boards. MSI must keep a monsterous stock of copper coloured spinny things. Test setup now, so we can make our way through the graphs.
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