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Radeon X1650 PRO
User’s Guide
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iv Copyright © 2006, ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. ATI, the ATI logo, and ATI product and product-feature names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Features, performance and specifications are subject to change without notice. Product may not be exactly as shown in diagrams. Reproduction of this manual, or parts thereof, in any form, wi
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v IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS • Read Instructions - All the safety and operating instructions should be read before the product is operated. • Retain Instructions - The safety and operating instructions should be retained for future reference. • Heed Warnings - All warnings on the product and the operating instructions should be adhered to. • Compatibility - This option card is for use only with IBM AT or compatible UL Listed personal computers that have Installation Instructions detail
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vii Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ® Radeon X1650 PRO Features 1 System Requirements 4 Using Multiple Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Display Configurations 9 Using TV Display and Capture Features . . . . . . . 11 Using TV Out 11 Connecting to a TV or VCR 12 Connecting to HDTV 14 Installing Software and Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 ® Installing Drivers and Software in Windows 17 Monitor Configuration
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viii Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
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® Radeon X1650 PRO Features 1 CHAPTER 1: Introduction ® Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon X1650 PRO graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free computing. ® Radeon X1650 PRO Features Features • 157 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process. • Dual-link DVI. • Twelve pixel shader processors. • Five vertex shader processors. • 128-bit 4-channel DDR/DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface. • Native PCI Express x16 bus interface. • AGP 8x configura
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® 2 Radeon X1650 PRO Features • Full speed 128-bit floating point processing. • Dedicated branch execution units for high performance dynamic branching and flow control. • Dedicated texture address units for improved efficiency. • 3Dc+ texture compression • High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and two-channel data formats. • High quality 2:1 compression for luminance maps and single- channel data formats. • Multiple Render Target (MRT) support. • Render-to-vertex buffer support. ® • C
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® Radeon X1650 PRO Features 3 • DXVA support. • De-blocking and noise reduction filtering. • Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and color space conversion. • Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing. • 3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion). • Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time. • HDR tone mapping acceleration. • Maps any input format to 10 bit per channel output. • Flexible display support. • Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs. • 16 bit per channel floating poi
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4 System Requirements ™ ™ Note: CrossFire is supported in Catalyst version 5.13 *with optional HDTV adapter available from ATI Online Store. System Requirements ® ® ® Hardware • Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon . • 512MB of system memory; 1GB or more for best performance. • Optical drive for installation software (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive). ® • Specialized PCI Express 350 watt or greater power supply recommended. Consult your computer system manual to ensure the power supply is designed to a
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System Requirements 5 To uninstall previous drivers With your current graphics card still in your computer: 1 Close all applications that are currently running. 2 Navigate to the Control Panel and select Add/Remove Programs. 3 Select your current graphics card drivers and select Add/Remove. The wizard will help you remove your current display drivers. Note: If the previously installed graphics card has any additional software installed, it should also be removed at this point. 4 Turn off your
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6 System Requirements
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7 CHAPTER 2: Using Multiple Displays Connecting Your Monitors ® Your Radeon X1650 PRO graphics card provides hardware support for two DVI-I monitors and a VGA monitor using the supplied DVI-I-to-VGA adapter. It also provides TV output via an S-Video Out connector. ® Connections and Adapters for the Radeon X1650 PRO Card 1 Standard VGA Monitor Connector. To connect a VGA monitor to the DVI-I connector, plug the supplied DVI-I-to-VGA adapter into the DVI-I connector, then plug your monitor c
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8 ® Note: If you use multiple monitors, the Radeon X1650 PRO card must be the primary graphics card. Normally, the system BIOS determines which graphics card will be the primary. Note: The top DVI-I connector is single-link and the bottom connector is dual-link. ® Note: Some Radeon X1650 PRO graphic cards have one DVI-I connector and one VGA connector. To connect your monitors 1 Power off your computer and monitors. 2 Plug the monitor cables into their appropriate connectors. 3 Power on yo
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Display Configurations 9 Display Configurations ® Your Radeon X1650 PRO graphics card provides dual display functionality. The following table lists the different ways you can connect displays to your card. Display Connector(s) Comments Configuration Used Single DFP DVI-I connector DFP - digital flat panel display. display Single CRT DVI-I connector CRT - cathode ray tube analog display with DVI-I-to-VGA display. adapter CRT display + DVI-I-to-VGA HDTV adapter + Component Adapter to HDTV
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10 Display Configurations
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Using TV Out 11 CHAPTER 3: Using TV Display and Capture Features This chapter describes how to use the TV display and video capture ® features of your Radeon X1650 PRO card. Using TV Out ® Your Radeon X1650 PRO has TV Out capability. Viewing Your PC Display on a TV ® You can attach your Radeon X1650 PRO to a TV and a monitor at the same time. You can also connect it to your VCR and record your monitor’s display. Note: A TV can only be connected to one DVI connector. IMPORTANT INFORMATION f
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12 Connecting to a TV or VCR TV display is ideal for giving presentations and watching movies, or playing games on a screen larger than a typical monitor. The following tips will help you get the most out of your TV Out feature. Connecting to a TV or VCR ® To connect your Radeon X1650 PRO card to a TV or VCR, use an S- Video cable. Many TVs (and VCRs) have a Composite video input, in which case you can use the supplied S-Video-to-Composite video adapter. If your TV has cable input only, you
