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sing MSI  Live VGA BIOS  Update

Note: The VGA card shown here 
may vary from the actual card.  
For further information, please visit 
MSI website at www.msi.com.tw

MSI  Live VGA BIOS  Update

This service enables you to update the latest VGA BIOS for your VGA card.

1.  To update your VGA BIOS, click  Live VGA BIOS  item on the left column of the main page.

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2.  If your VGA card does not support the Live VGA BIOS  function, you will receive a warning 

message on the screen. 

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3.  If your VGA card do support the Live VGA BIOS  function, please pay attention to the message 

shown on the screen telling you that in what circumstance flashing BIOS may fail to reboot. 

4. Click Yes if you would like to try it at your own risk or No to return to the  main page with 

everything unchanged.

5.  If you click Yes to continue, it will check the information and BIOS version of your VGA card, 

and list them in a table.

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6.  Click the graph button at the bottom to connect the MSI  Live Update 3  Server.

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7.  The MSI  Live VGA BIOS  will automatically connect  the Internet and search the supported 

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BIOS in the database of MSI . 

8. If it has found one (or several) supported BIOS for your VGA card, click the InstallShield 

Wizard button  on the right side of the table to have the new BIOS downloaded and updated 
automatically.

9.  Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the updating procedure.

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TV_Out Connector 
HDTV integrated

ATI Radeon X1650XT

512MB DDR3 memory or
256MB DDR3 memory or
128MB DDR3 memory

PCI Express interface

RX1650XT-T2D Series

G52-V0732X1
October 2006

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* All trademarks used in this manual are the sole property of their respective owners.

VGA is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

 

Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.

 

Windows  is a registered trademark of Microsoft  Corporation.

 

 

 

 

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Macrovision Corporation Product Notice

This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by method claims of certain U.S. patents 
and other intellectual property rights owned by Macrovision Corporation and other right owners. Use of this copyright 
protection technology must be authorized by Macrovision Corporation, and is intended for home and other limited 
viewing uses only unless otherwise authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is 
prohibited.

Under the European Union ("EU") Directive on Waste 
Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Directive 2002/96/EC, 
which takes effect on August 13, 2005, products of 
"electrical and electronic equipment" cannot be discarded 
as municipal waste anymore and manufacturers of covered 
electronic equipment will be obligated to take back such 
products at the end of their useful life.

DO NOT touch the 
cooling system since 
it may produce a 
certain heat while 
processing tasks.

CrossFire Interface

DVI-I Port (yellow) 
Dual-Link DVI output 
supported

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Please check out the following items to make sure that you get the complete product:
 

 

VGA card

   CDs; Drivers, documentation, and applications
    Consult your dealer immediately if anything is missing or damaged. 

To install the  VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements:     

 

Intel  Pentium  III

(and above), AMD  K7  (and above), or compatible with PCI Express slot 

 

128MB of system memory 

 

Installation software requires CD-ROM drive 

 

Operation System Support: Windows  XP / 2000 

 

Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability.

  

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Fan Connector

Shader Technology

  

 

 

 

Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel shader support: 

- Full speed 32-bit floating point processing.
- High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending and anti-aliasing support.
- High performance dynamic branching and flow control.

 

Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL  2.0.

Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering

 2x/4x/6x 

Anti-Aliasing 

modes: 

- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and 

centroid sampling. 

- New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing mode.
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing.
- Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, up to and including widescreen 

HDTV. 

 

2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes: 

- Up to 128-tap texture filtering. 
- Adaptive algorithm with performance and quality options. 
- Improved rendering with higher subpixel precision and LOD computation levels.
- New rotational high quality rendering mode.

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3Dc+  

 Advanced Texture Compression

 

High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps.

 

Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format.n

New Ring Bus Memory Controller

 

Programmable arbitration logic maximizes memory efficiency, software upgradeable.

 

New fully associative texture, color, and Z cache design.

Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware. 

   

   

   

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