Questions about MSI FX5600-VTDR128

Question

Hi,
I'm considering purchasing the MSI FX5600-VTDR128 graphics card, but I have a few questions that I wondered if anyone could help me with.  First, has anyone had major problems with the card?  Also, I wondered if the tv-out feature would work using only rca composite cable because I do not have an S-video port on my tv.  
Thanks

Answer 1

I'll be honnest...  it might not be a good purchase if you are a gamer.  You can find other MSI card doing better.
The major problems i've seen is:
  - Slow for games
  - IRx application for the remote control have serious  
    memory leak and i don't know if MSI really care about
    that.  People yell about that in every forums but
    there's simply no MSI answer!  You often have to
    kill this task and throw the remote control in the
    garbage if you don't want to loose memory.
    I'm acutally loosing 8k per second.  Any programmer
    from MSI forgot to do a "MyObject = Nothing" after
    a "MyObject = New Something()"???  Common, it's easy
    to find this problem.  it take exactly 8192 bytes...
    someone can find where you ask to the OS to give you
    8K of ram!?  ANSWER MSI!!!!!
  - Media Center reset your screen to 1024x768 with a
    screen refresh of 60Hz!!!  Each time you get out of
    Media Center, it keep that stupid resolution.
    (Everybody yell after that too in the forums, this
    is crappy programmation).
Of course like the moderator said... satisfied customer never come to write on the forums.  But to be honnest, not every customer are computer Wiz and many customer think that it's normal to reboot a PC every 1-2 hours... "It's normal, it's just a PC after all"... lol.  Common!  The problem is that the PC works FINE!  The bad programs doesn't!  And it's not normal to find such an untested software on the market!
Hopefuly, thoses who make hardware only are more serious and test their stuff before selling them.
And to finish, you asked if it was able to work with an RCA because you don't have an S-video yet.  I would say, yes because there's an adaptor with 2 plugs of each (input/ouput, for s-video and rca).  
I've not been able to make mine work yet... i'm trying to find out what's wrong.  mine is plugged onto my video RCA output.  I setup my video to send the signal on the rear RCA plugs but the Media Center just get nothing!  But i'm sure there's something i didn't understood.  It's the first time i try to watch tv on a comp...
hope this might help to make your choice.
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Originally posted by ksu_fan
Hi,
I\'m considering purchasing the MSI FX5600-VTDR128 graphics card, but I have a few questions that I wondered if anyone could help me with.  First, has anyone had major problems with the card?  Also, I wondered if the tv-out feature would work using only rca composite cable because I do not have an S-video port on my tv.  
Thanks