MSI MS-8961: a new model on ATI RV380?

Such an interesting publication and photos appeared on the pages of Chinese GZeasy. Our colleagues from Guangzhou claim that their forum members tested a system on i915G chipset, 2.8GHz Socket LGA775 Pentium 4 and MSI´s RV380-based PCI Express graphics card.

While i915G is no surprise after CeBIT 2004, a report about a "live" MSI card on ATI GPU is really interesting. I can´t say it´s a total surprise, as we heard of MSI plans as far back as early in May, when Taiwanese The Digitimes, referring to The Commercial Times, spread rumours of possible appearance of MSI products on ATI GPUs during CeBIT 2004. Though these messages didn´t come true at the time promised, MS-8961 model name and (and the cooler inscription) still reinforce their value.

The tested ATI RV380 card (i.e. RV360 + PCI Express, 0.13µm) had 128MB DDR, 351/700MHz clock rates.

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