RADEON™ 9550SE Series Chipset Features
• Quad-Pipe architecture delivers real-time cinematic rendering and animation.
• SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology supports Microsoft® DirectX® 9 feature sets, enabling more complex and cinematic-quality lighting effects
• SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 technology delivers the sharpest, clearest textures without sacrificing frame rates
• 128-bit full floating point precision enables billions of color variations to render the same lighting and effects as Hollywood studios
• Full AGP 8X support doubles available bandwidth for the most engaging gameplay in its class
• Enjoy better performance and 3D imagery in multimedia, games and applications with Microsoft® DirectX® 9 optimized architecture
• DirectPlay of the Microsoft® DirectX® 9 brings improved multiplayer access to groups connecting over LANs and the Internet
• Supported by CATALYST™, the industry's most stable 3D acceleration software Also supporting the latest OpenGL® functionality and feature sets
• Optimized to run the most demanding 2D and 3D next-generation games and applications without putting extra strain on the CPU
• FULLSTREAM™ removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video to deliver smoother looking, higher quality online content
• VIDEO IMMERSION integrates features to provide unprecedented support for digital and high definition video
• RADEON ™ 9550 Visual Processing Unit (VPU)
• Enjoy long-term compatibility with the hottest Microsoft® DirectX® 9 gaming releases and backwards-compatibility with your favorite titles
• Display Support
- VGA connector for analog CRT
- S-video connector for TV / VCR
- DVI-I connector for digital flat panel
- Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays
• 4 parallel rendering pipelines and 2 parallel geometry engines
• AGP 8X support
• Support TRUFORM™ 2.0 and VIDEOSHADER™
• MPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion
• Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion
• Support SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 and HYPER Z™ III+
• Support SMARTSHADER™ 2.0
- Programmable pixel and vertex shaders
- Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision
- Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control
- Multiple render target support
- Shadow volume rendering acceleration
- High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support
- Supports DirectX 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL
• Dual integrated display controllers
• Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHz DACs
• Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant)
• Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution
• Optimized for Pentium 4 SSE2 and AMD® Athlon™ 3Dnow!
• PC 2002 compliant abs
• 2D Display Modes: Resolutions, colors and maximum refresh rates(Hz) in 256, 65K or 16.7M color

Performances
• Memory Interface: 64-bit / 1Channel
• Peak Memory Bandwidth: 6.4GB/sec. (This value is for reference only, depending on type/size of memory implemented)
• Bankwidth compression ratio: 8.8:1
• Peak Pixel Fill Rate: 1.0GB/s
• Redering Pipeline: 4
• Textures applied per pass: supported up to 16 textures per pass
• Geometry Pipeline: 2
• Peak vertex throughput Mvertices/sec: 125
• Dual RAMDACs: 400MHz


System Requirements
To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to met the following requirements
• Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron , AMD K6/Duron/Athlon/Athlon XPor compatible with AGP 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8V) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (4X/8X)
• 128MB of system memory.
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive.
• DVD playback requires DVD drive
• Interactive Program guide requires Internet connection for listing updates.
• Operation System Support: Windows® XP/2000

MSI developed software
• MSI Live Update Series ( Live VGA BIOS & Live VGA Driver)
- Automatically online download & update VGA BIOS & Drivers, reduce the risk of getting the wrong files, and never have the trouble on web site searching.
• 3D! Turbo Experience
- Fancy, Game-looking HTML/Flash Based Tool
- New revolution! MSI is the worldwide first company to propose the advantage of HTML/Flash based utilities. By leading the new software trend, MSI devotes to serve the users a fancy, game- looking utility. Are you ready for the new experience now?
• GoodMen
- Automatically release the system memory space, reduce the risk of system hang-up.
• LockBox
- Instantly enter the data lock mode when you must leave your system for a while.
• WMIinfor
- Automatically list the detail system configuration, it helpful for engineering service people.
• ThinSoft BeTwin
• MSI Secure DOC
• E-Color
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Trend Micro PC-Cillin 2000
• Microsoft® DirectX 8.1