MSI N285GTX SuperPipe Graphic Card

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MSI, leader in the development of graphics card cooling technologies, is always designing and researching for further advances in cooling systems in the hopes gamers can experience better cooling and performance from MSI products. Today, MSI is pleased to announce the N285GTX SuperPipe graphics card, which not only brings to bear the powerful NVIDIA GPU - GeForce GTX 285, but, via the revolutionary 'SuperPipe' and Twin Frozr thermal design, offers a high performance and thermal efficiency graphics card.

MSI SuperPipe technology

The N285GTX SuperPipe is MSI's first card to use SuperPipe technology. Heatpipe is an extremely important component on a graphics card, which is responsible for transferring heat away from the GPU to the cooling fins for dissipation. The thicker the heatpipe, the more heat it can transfer, the faster it dissipates, and the better its overall thermal efficiency. MSI's SuperPipe technology uses special 8mm thick heatpipes that are 60% thicker than the traditional pipes, and show about a 90% improvement in thermal efficiency. With such amazing improvement, the MSI SuperPipe is a high-performance graphics card's best companion that perfectly eliminates high-end GPU overheat issues.

N285GTX SuperPipe also equips a Twin Frozr dual-fan thermal design that cools down GPU and other graphics card components (such as capacitors or memory). Through the combination of SuperPipe and dual-fan designs, gamers can truly experience the N285GTX SuperPipe's cool and fast performance.

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Overview of MSI N285GTX SuperPipe Graphic Card

1. Key Messages
   
   
   • Power consumption is lower , space occupancy in chassis is smaller, and heat generating is less.
   • 240 enhanced processing cores
   • 50% faster in game over last generation
   • 100% offload H.264 playback loading from CPU
   • Native HDMI & NVIDIA SLI Multi-Monitor support
   
   
   
2. Smart LED Indication
   
   
   • Power Status LED
   • Green: both power connectors are correctly connected
   • Red: one or both power connectors are incorrect or not plugged correctly
   
   
   
3. 3-way NVIDIA SLI
   
   
   • 3 MSI N285GTX Series graphics cards running in 3-way NVIDIA SLI mode on the new NVIDIA nForce 780i and 790i motherboards enable 50%~100% more performance increasing over a single GPU for the ultimate gaming upgrade.

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Specification of MSI N285GTX SuperPipe Graphic Card

• Graphics Engine : GeForce GTX 285
• Bus Standard : PCI Express x16 2.0
• Memory Type : GDDR3
• Memory Size(MB) : 1024
• Memory Interface : 512
• Core Clock Speed(MHz) : 648
• Memory Clock Speed(MHz) : 2484
• Memory Bandwidth(GB/sec) : 158.98
• Texture Fill Rate(billion/sec) : 51.84
• DVI Output : 2
• D-SUB Output : 2(via DVI to D-Sub adaptor)
• TV-Output : 1(via S-Video to Composite)
• HDMI-Output : 1(via DVI to HDMI adaptor)
• VIVO(Video-in/out) : N/A
• HDTV Support : Y
• HDCP Support : Y
• HDMI Support : Y
• Dual-link DVI : Y