Geforce FX 5700 Ultra

• DVI-I/VGA Adapter
• S to S TV-Out Extended Cable
• S to C TV-Out Connecting Cable
• GPU Fan power connector cable
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon
• Duke Nukem Manhattan Project
• Morrowind

7-1 Games Collection of demos including

• The Sum Of All Fears
• IL-2 Sturmovik
• Serious Sam 2 lite
• Rally Trophy
• Beam Breakers
• Zax The Alien Hunter
• Oni

Multimedia Center II

• Virtual Drive 7.0 Professional Version
• Restore It 3 Professional Version
• MSI 5.1 ChannelDVD Player
• MSI Live Update Series (Live VGA BIOS and Live VGA Driver)
• GoodMem
• LockBox
• WMIinfor
• ThinSoft BeTwin
• MSI Secure DOC
• E-Color
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Trend Micro PC-Cillin 2000
• Microsoft DirectX 8.1

MSI includes everything needed to run the video card, hardware wise. The DVI-VGA cable allows for dual CRT monitors to be used. I do wish that manufacturers would include 2 DVI-I ports so dual DVI-I monitors can be attached. Also included is a S to S TV-Out External Cable and a S to C TV-Out connecting Cable, allowing for full use of TV-Out. It’s nice to see an extension, as most video card manufacturers tend to include a short TV-Out cable.

MSI has a filler bundle listed on their site. In terms of games, Morrowind is a good long, RPG if you haven’t bought it already. Unfortunately, Morrowind is rather dated today. Duke Nukem For (almost said the Forever moniker ?) Manhattan Project and Ghost Recon are nothing more than filler today. MSI had the right idea with their NBox bundle. 3 modern games C+C Generals, BF1942 and Unreal II are included in the NBox bundle. Unfortunately, that isn’t the bundle included in the MSI card.

The other software is mostly filler right now as well. PC-Cillin 2000 was a great anti-virus software back in 1999. Unfortunately, the year is now 2003. Microsoft’s DirectX 8.1 is so dated that the card supports DirectX 9.0. The other software is useful to some degree, but not a big deal. The other software not MSI developed is ok, but I almost wish MSI didn’t include it at all.

MSI has a Live Update of VGA BIOS and VGA drivers. What this means is that you can automatically download drivers and updated VGA BIOS like you would a motherboard BIOS with a Windows BIOS update program. Personally, I prefer updating everything manually, as I know exactly what drivers I use, but for businesses and people who don’t like updating drivers it can be a godsend.