The MSI Starforce 816 is MSI's 5th video card. MSI have not had a reputation for jumping onto the graphics bandwagon but like so may other motherboard manufacturers they have started to dabble in the graphics industry. As with all TNT2 M64 cards it was not a very good performer, this was nothing to do with MSI but rather the TNT2 M64 as its cut down memory and data bus hindered the real power of the chip. MSI then moved into the shadows until the release of the Geforce chipset.
Lets see, first lets take a look as the specifications of the card.