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ClubIT.com has the MSI GeForce 8600 GTS NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC Video Card Retail for $137 - $30 rebate (Expires 2/29) - $7 rebate (Expires 2/29) + $7 shipping = $107 shipped. It supports DirectX 10, with dual DVI outputs and other goodies.
Product description from ClubIT.com:
Preformances
- Graphics Bus Technology: PCI Express
- Core Clock (MHz): 700
- Memory Clock (MHz): 2100
- Memory Amount: 256MB DDR3
- Memory Interface: 128bit
- Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec): 32
NVIDIA SLI Technology Delivers up to 2x the performance of a single graphics card configuration for unequaled gaming experiences by allowing two cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI Express graphics, SLI technology dramatically scales performance on today’s hottest games.
HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection HDCP is a content protection specification to protect digital entertainment content across the DVI/HDMI interface. The HDCP provides a robust, cost-effective and transparent method for transmitting and receiving digi!
tal entertainment similar to DVI/HDMI-compliant digital displays. HDCP
encrypts the data transmitted between the DVI/HDMI connector on the graphics adapter and the display. To provide this support, both the graphics adapter and the display need to have an HDCP transmitter and receiver respectively.
NVIDIA CineFX 5.0 Shading Architecture
- Microsoft Vista Features
Vertex shaders
- Support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0 Vertex Shader 4.0
- Encompass’ Transform and Lighting
- Displacement mapping
- Geometry instancing
- Pixel shades
- Support for DirectX 10.0 Pixel Shader 4.0
- Support for full pixel branching
- Support for Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)
- Infinite-length pixel programs
- Next-generation texture engine
- Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline,with native hardware support for 32 bpp,64 bpp,and 128 bpp rendering modes.
64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending
- Full floating point is supported throughout entire pipeline
- Floating!
point filtering improves the quality of images in motion
- Floating point texturing drivers new levels of clarity and image detail
- Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and explosions
NVIDIA Intellisample 4.0 Technology
- Advanced 16X anisotropic filtering (up to 128 taps)
- Rotated-grid antialiasing for removing jagged edges for incredible edge quality
- Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture,and z-data at higher resolutions and frame retes
- Fast z-clear
- Support for normal map compression
- New transparent supersampling and transparent multisampling antialiasing modes.
NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technology
- Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games,like id Software’s Doom 3

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