MSI is one of the newer ATi add-in board partners, and they look to have one of the first Radeon X700Pro cards coming down the pipe. Hexus takes a look at this mainstream performer with MSI's flair added. MSI's X700 PRO runs at a standard core frequency of 425MHz and sports a two-quad (8) pixel pipeline setup. What's also pleasing is that the use of a PCIe interface has allowed ATI/MSI to do away with the need for auxillary power on a card that's endowed with decent fillrate. There's space for a 6-pin power adapter on the right-hand side but MSI's card does without. While PCIe cards will run a little bit more than comparable AGP variants, bear in mind that it's newer and can command the price because of that. Now that the nForce 4 and VIA K8T890 chipsets are giving PCIe to Athlon 64 CPU's, this would be a card to look at if you don't want to sell a kidney for a GeForce 6800 or Radeon X800XT.