MSI GeForce4 Ti4800SE 8X VIVO Video Card

Company: Micro-Star International
Product: G4Ti4800SE-VTD Video Card
Street Price: ~$180 USD
Date Reviewed: March 30, 2003
Reviewed By: Jason R.
Rating: (9.8/10)

What's In The Box:

The front of the box is littered with all sorts of information about what you are buying. Clearly marked across the box is Ti4800SE 8X, along with stickers promoting all the included software (more on that later), 128MB DDR version, as well as Video In / TV-Out & Dual VGA support! The back of the box talks more about the card's features, as well as listing all of the included software titles.

The card itself is the traditional MSI red color, with a really sweet heatsink that not only cools the GPU, but also the RAM. It's all low profile so you don't have to worry about blocking the adjacent PCI slot.

The next couple pictures show what really separates out the MSI video card from the other brands, you get a ton of of bundled software, as well as all connectors necessary for dual VGA and VIVO support. The black cable is a svideo cable, and the gray connector is a DVI to VGA adapter, these are pretty standard items that come with all video cards. However since this card has VIVO support, you get an additional black connector that has regular video & svideo in & outs.

The bundled software is like none I have seen before, MSI isn't playing around with demo or trial software, they give you FULL VERSIONS of software, you get 10 CDs with a plethora of games and utilities. The full list of included software is as follows:

• InterVideo WinProducer / WinCoder Ver2.0

• Virtual Drive 7 Professional Version / Restore It 3 Professional Version

• MSI 5.1 Channel DVD Player / Foreign Language Learning Machine

• MSI 3D Desktop

• MSI developed software

• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2 CDs)

• Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project

• 7 in 1 Games Collection
  - The Sum of All Fears
  - IL-2 Sturmovik
  - Serious Sam 2 lite
  - Rally Trophy
  - Beam Breakers
  - Zax: The Alien Hunter
  - Oni