Taiwanese board builder MSI has stepped up to announce its own line of 40nm GeForce 200 series cards which, for starters, includes six models - the N210-MD512H (GeForce 210), N220GT-MD512, N220GT-MD1G/N220GT-MD1G OC and N220GT-MD1G/D3/N220GT-MD1G-OC/D3 (GeForce GT 220).

The cards mentioned feature DirectX 10.1 support, a PCIe x16 interface, SSCs (Solid State Chokes), solic capacitors, D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs, and the 2.0 Unified Video Decoder.

The GT218-powered N210-MD512H comes with 16 Processing Cores, a 64-bit memory interface, a GPU clocked at 589 MHz, a shader frequency of 1400 MHz and 512MB of DDR3 memory @ 800 MHz.

The stock-clocked GeForce GT 220 models have 48 Processing Cores, a 128-bit memory interface and GPU/shader clocks of 625/1360. The N220GT-MD512 and N220GT-MD1G have their DDR2 memory set to 800 MHz, while the N220GT-MD1G/D3 has 1GB of DDR3 memory set to 1580 MHz. The overclocked cards boast GPU and shader clocks of 650 and 1400 MHz, respectively, while their memory is tuned up to 1600 MHz.