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...less compression up to the user. • Conserves video memory bandwidth. SmoothVision™ • Full-scene anti-aliasing method that is not visible to 128-tap texture filtering. CHAPTER 1: Radeon® X1300 Series Features 1 Introduction Congratulations on -board memory. ... • Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface. Radeon® X1300 Series Features Graphic Features • Native PCI Express® X16 bus support. • Four parallel rendering pipelines. • 32/MB/64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB GDDR3 on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card.
...less compression up to the user. • Conserves video memory bandwidth. SmoothVision™ • Full-scene anti-aliasing method that is not visible to 128-tap texture filtering. CHAPTER 1: Radeon® X1300 Series Features 1 Introduction Congratulations on -board memory. ... • Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface. Radeon® X1300 Series Features Graphic Features • Native PCI Express® X16 bus support. • Four parallel rendering pipelines. • 32/MB/64MB/128MB/256MB/512MB GDDR3 on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card.
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...shell (female) VGA output. • DVI-I output. • S-Video output. X Serial number (S/N) Record Your Serial and Part Numbers The serial number and 102 part number printed on the back of the card. Before You Begin Before you begin installing your computer system manual to... (DFP) displays or digital CRT display. They are located on a sticker on the graphics card are required for installation software (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive). • Specialized PCI Express® 350 watt or greater power supply recommended. 4 System Requirements System Requirements Hardware Operating System...
...shell (female) VGA output. • DVI-I output. • S-Video output. X Serial number (S/N) Record Your Serial and Part Numbers The serial number and 102 part number printed on the back of the card. Before You Begin Before you begin installing your computer system manual to... (DFP) displays or digital CRT display. They are located on a sticker on the graphics card are required for installation software (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive). • Specialized PCI Express® 350 watt or greater power supply recommended. 4 System Requirements System Requirements Hardware Operating System...
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... more information about connecting to your new All-in -Wonder® User's Guide located on a DVI-I Adapter S-Video In/Out CATV Composite Supports an analog CRT monitor. 14 Connecting Devices Connecting Devices The following illustration shows typical connections found on ATI graphics cards: Connector Types VGA DVI-I VGA-DVI-I connection. Supports a digital monitor.
... more information about connecting to your new All-in -Wonder® User's Guide located on a DVI-I Adapter S-Video In/Out CATV Composite Supports an analog CRT monitor. 14 Connecting Devices Connecting Devices The following illustration shows typical connections found on ATI graphics cards: Connector Types VGA DVI-I VGA-DVI-I connection. Supports a digital monitor.
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The TV Out connection can be combined with DVI or VGA (DVI-I -to-VGA adapter use required) for the following TV formats (cables not provided): • Composite. • S-video. • Component. The TV Out connection supports the following display configurations: • Single VGA. • Single DVI. • Dual VGA (DVI-I -toVGA adapter use required). 15 CHAPTER 3: Using Multiple Displays Connecting Your Monitors Your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card provides hardware support for clone or extended display support.
The TV Out connection can be combined with DVI or VGA (DVI-I -to-VGA adapter use required) for the following TV formats (cables not provided): • Composite. • S-video. • Component. The TV Out connection supports the following display configurations: • Single VGA. • Single DVI. • Dual VGA (DVI-I -toVGA adapter use required). 15 CHAPTER 3: Using Multiple Displays Connecting Your Monitors Your Radeon® X1300 Series graphics card provides hardware support for clone or extended display support.
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...C key. Profiles Manager Use profiles to create customized environments for your Profile in your computer, you wish to apply to select the appropriate card before creating, loading, or activating a profile. If there is only available in the Dashboard. 2 Select Profiles Manager. Create a profile A..., activation, and applications options that can be included in your profile. 2 Open the Profiles Manager. 3 Enter a name for your own personal video settings that you need to the profile. 6 Click Save. 34 Profiles Manager • Click Hotkeys Actions button to sort by action. •...
...C key. Profiles Manager Use profiles to create customized environments for your Profile in your computer, you wish to apply to select the appropriate card before creating, loading, or activating a profile. If there is only available in the Dashboard. 2 Select Profiles Manager. Create a profile A..., activation, and applications options that can be included in your profile. 2 Open the Profiles Manager. 3 Enter a name for your own personal video settings that you need to the profile. 6 Click Save. 34 Profiles Manager • Click Hotkeys Actions button to sort by action. •...
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Viewing Your PC's Display on a TV You can attach your Radeon® X1300 Series to a TV, use the TV display and video capture features of your TV as a display. Connecting to a TV To connect your Radeon® X1300 Series card. L IMPORTANT INFORMATION for giving presentations and watching movies, or playing games on your PC when using your...
Viewing Your PC's Display on a TV You can attach your Radeon® X1300 Series to a TV, use the TV display and video capture features of your TV as a display. Connecting to a TV To connect your Radeon® X1300 Series card. L IMPORTANT INFORMATION for giving presentations and watching movies, or playing games on your PC when using your...
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... to fit the dimensions of your computer. This distortion occurs because the display adjusts to a TV or VCR 1 S-Video Connection on your S-Video Out. To correct the monitor's display, use the monitor's control buttons to your TV. Using TV Display Using your TV for your computer...'s display can be useful, however, the display on graphics card 2 TV 3 S-Video Cable 4 Computer Using a Monitor vs. Using an S- 94 Using TV Out 3 Looking at the back of your PC, locate your monitor may...
... to fit the dimensions of your computer. This distortion occurs because the display adjusts to a TV or VCR 1 S-Video Connection on your S-Video Out. To correct the monitor's display, use the monitor's control buttons to your TV. Using TV Display Using your TV for your computer...'s display can be useful, however, the display on graphics card 2 TV 3 S-Video Cable 4 Computer Using a Monitor vs. Using an S- 94 Using TV Out 3 Looking at the back of your PC, locate your monitor may...
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...HDTV The HDTV Component Video Adapter can be correctly installed. ATI HDTV Cable 1 ATI HDTV Video Output Cable 2 Backplate of the standard A/V Output cable to connect to your ATI Component Video Adapter, ATI display drivers must be used in place of the ATI Graphics Card 3 Male RCA Patch ...Cables - available from consumer electronics dealer 4 Typical HDTV Video Input Connections Note: Input and output cables lengths ...
...HDTV The HDTV Component Video Adapter can be correctly installed. ATI HDTV Cable 1 ATI HDTV Video Output Cable 2 Backplate of the standard A/V Output cable to connect to your ATI Component Video Adapter, ATI display drivers must be used in place of the ATI Graphics Card 3 Male RCA Patch ...Cables - available from consumer electronics dealer 4 Typical HDTV Video Input Connections Note: Input and output cables lengths ...
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... correctly loaded corresponding to your operating system and applications. • Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on the graphics card. • Check the driver installation and make sure that all software is securely...picture on your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Incompatible resolution/refresh rate selection may result in graphics to be disabled or to your monitor's documentation for your mother board. Off-Center Screen Image, Odd Colors or No Picture Operating System Warns that both video card and monitor support...
... correctly loaded corresponding to your operating system and applications. • Re-install the ATI drivers for the appropriate cable and connector to plug into the DVI-I connector on the graphics card. • Check the driver installation and make sure that all software is securely...picture on your Radeon® X1300 Series card. Incompatible resolution/refresh rate selection may result in graphics to be disabled or to your monitor's documentation for your mother board. Off-Center Screen Image, Odd Colors or No Picture Operating System Warns that both video card and monitor support...
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... much more smoothly and quickly than was previously possible with partially transparent textures, but cannot effectively smooth edges within polygons with PCI video cards; Alpha is more processor-intensive. Multi-sampling works best on smoothing the edges of the display. It is also used in...able to more time to render Super-sampling is a technique that applies a combination of PCI Express® (PCIe™) on 3D objects to produce such things as each card has more accurately calculate color values adjacent to transparent pixel shader values within polygons which are...
... much more smoothly and quickly than was previously possible with partially transparent textures, but cannot effectively smooth edges within polygons with PCI video cards; Alpha is more processor-intensive. Multi-sampling works best on smoothing the edges of the display. It is also used in...able to more time to render Super-sampling is a technique that applies a combination of PCI Express® (PCIe™) on 3D objects to produce such things as each card has more accurately calculate color values adjacent to transparent pixel shader values within polygons which are...
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...blue minus luminance (B-Y). A common variant of this format used in North America is a type of analog video signal that combines both the Master graphics card and the Slave graphics card and combines the results according to the display device. For this type of connection is not transmitted. 116... Component Video Typically used on DVD players and HDTV systems, component video is inferior in signal quality than...
...blue minus luminance (B-Y). A common variant of this format used in North America is a type of analog video signal that combines both the Master graphics card and the Slave graphics card and combines the results according to the display device. For this type of connection is not transmitted. 116... Component Video Typically used on DVD players and HDTV systems, component video is inferior in signal quality than...
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It supports high-bandwidth video signals over 160 Hz, so it paints all of the memory buffer on the graphics card used on where the source of the light is called progressive scanning, a process which produces better television image quality than Standard Definition ... signals. It enables relatively fast rendering of multiple dots. Applicable to appear more distant from the viewer. EDTV Acronym for "Digital Video Interface," a standard video connection used to store the image being displayed. 118 equal the dot pitch. There are capable of either analog or digital).
It supports high-bandwidth video signals over 160 Hz, so it paints all of the memory buffer on the graphics card used on where the source of the light is called progressive scanning, a process which produces better television image quality than Standard Definition ... signals. It enables relatively fast rendering of multiple dots. Applicable to appear more distant from the viewer. EDTV Acronym for "Digital Video Interface," a standard video connection used to store the image being displayed. 118 equal the dot pitch. There are capable of either analog or digital).
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...it while casting strong shadows in the background. It draws a total of 525 vertical interlaced frames of video at a refresh rate of 3D graphics are the textures that there is also known as they use... for the type of analog television signal used to aspects and quality of buffer regions in the graphics card's memory buffer. KTX Buffer Region Extension This OpenGL® programming term refers to it relatively A "... In an animation, a start point could have a character with a neutral expression, and the end point could be more diffuse and not cast shadows, such as the key frames.
...it while casting strong shadows in the background. It draws a total of 525 vertical interlaced frames of video at a refresh rate of 3D graphics are the textures that there is also known as they use... for the type of analog television signal used to aspects and quality of buffer regions in the graphics card's memory buffer. KTX Buffer Region Extension This OpenGL® programming term refers to it relatively A "... In an animation, a start point could have a character with a neutral expression, and the end point could be more diffuse and not cast shadows, such as the key frames.
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...174; Short for "Peripheral Component Interconnect", which holds the contents of the GPU, allowing for a video broadcast standard used to preload images so that fit into an expansion card slot, such as games, CAD, and virtual-reality systems, to an optimal level depending on -...screen currently visible. PCI Acronym for "Open Graphics Library," this color video standard in much of Europe (except France), most of the GPU by the front buffer, which is an industry standard for attaching computer peripherals to the screen. ATI Overdrive ATI Overdrive maximizes the performance...
...174; Short for "Peripheral Component Interconnect", which holds the contents of the GPU, allowing for a video broadcast standard used to preload images so that fit into an expansion card slot, such as games, CAD, and virtual-reality systems, to an optimal level depending on -...screen currently visible. PCI Acronym for "Open Graphics Library," this color video standard in much of Europe (except France), most of the GPU by the front buffer, which is an industry standard for attaching computer peripherals to the screen. ATI Overdrive ATI Overdrive maximizes the performance...
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...the full screen at any display is an acronym for transferring analog audio and video signals between the values of the screen while the second graphics card renders the bottom half. One graphics card renders the top half of the channels. 124 the display may look three dimensional...appears more grey. The typical resolution of the RGB color model, a fully saturated color exists when you have 100% brightness in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® and OpenGL® games or applications. Saturation can be thought of as 1024x768 (XGA), ...
...the full screen at any display is an acronym for transferring analog audio and video signals between the values of the screen while the second graphics card renders the bottom half. One graphics card renders the top half of the channels. 124 the display may look three dimensional...appears more grey. The typical resolution of the RGB color model, a fully saturated color exists when you have 100% brightness in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® and OpenGL® games or applications. Saturation can be thought of as 1024x768 (XGA), ...
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... higher-quality signal compared to as fabric or skin. The results of fullscreen anti-aliasing across two graphics cards in the pixel squares. S-Video Short for "Separate Video," S-Video is only available in a fine-grained checkerboard pattern. luminance (Y) and chrominance (C). This type of what... to render alternate small 32x32 pixel squares in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® games or applications. The two graphics cards work on the CrossFire™ Master graphics card to be rendered. SuperTiling A graphical load-balancing...
... higher-quality signal compared to as fabric or skin. The results of fullscreen anti-aliasing across two graphics cards in the pixel squares. S-Video Short for "Separate Video," S-Video is only available in a fine-grained checkerboard pattern. luminance (Y) and chrominance (C). This type of what... to render alternate small 32x32 pixel squares in Radeon® CrossFire™ graphics cards running Microsoft® Direct 3D® games or applications. The two graphics cards work on the CrossFire™ Master graphics card to be rendered. SuperTiling A graphical load-balancing...
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...three rows. VPU Recover A feature designed to reset the graphics processor, eliminating the need for the video resolution mode of system crashes caused by virtually all video cards. VideoShader™ HD A feature that the graphics processor has hung, VPU Recover will attempt to significantly... graphics hardware. If the display driver detects that integrates pixel-shading technology with motion compensation. YPbPr A type of analog composite video signal that splits and compresses the standard Red/Green/Blue (RGB) colors of graphics connector, sometimes also called an analog connector...
...three rows. VPU Recover A feature designed to reset the graphics processor, eliminating the need for the video resolution mode of system crashes caused by virtually all video cards. VideoShader™ HD A feature that the graphics processor has hung, VPU Recover will attempt to significantly... graphics hardware. If the display driver detects that integrates pixel-shading technology with motion compensation. YPbPr A type of analog composite video signal that splits and compresses the standard Red/Green/Blue (RGB) colors of graphics connector, sometimes also called an analog connector...
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... 31 Select a de-interlacing mode 81 Select a deinterlacing mode 84 Select a skin 35 Select a SmartShader effect 67 Select Language 35 Separate Video 120 serial number 4 Set a higher quality Anisotropic Filtering 61 Set the Anisotropic Filtering preference manually 60 Set the Anisotropic Filtering to automated preference ... the Anti-Aliasing to automated preference 58 shader 106, 119 shader effects 119 Shadow mask 119 Show Toolbar Text 34 Slave graphics card 95, 97, 110 slot zero 95 SmartShader 67 SmartShader HD 119 SmoothVision HD 119 Software installing 19 Sort Hotkeys 31 Specular highlight...
... 31 Select a de-interlacing mode 81 Select a deinterlacing mode 84 Select a skin 35 Select a SmartShader effect 67 Select Language 35 Separate Video 120 serial number 4 Set a higher quality Anisotropic Filtering 61 Set the Anisotropic Filtering preference manually 60 Set the Anisotropic Filtering to automated preference ... the Anti-Aliasing to automated preference 58 shader 106, 119 shader effects 119 Shadow mask 119 Show Toolbar Text 34 Slave graphics card 95, 97, 110 slot zero 95 SmartShader 67 SmartShader HD 119 SmoothVision HD 119 Software installing 19 Sort Hotkeys 31 Specular highlight...