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Follow the steps
to install the VGA card:
1. Remove the computer case.
2. Locate the expansion slot on your mainboard.
Warning: Inserting the VGA card into a wrong
slot may damage your card (refer to your
mainboard manual for more Information).
3. Put the card directly over the
slot and
press one end of the card into the slot first.
Gently but firmly press the other end until the
card is fully seated in the slot.
4. Secure the card with a bracket screw.
5. Install all other cards and devices and connect
all the cables, and then install the case.
6. Connect the monitor. Now, you are ready to
install the software on your computer.
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expansion
To install the driver of the VGA card to your computer,
CD
please follow the steps below:
1. Turn on the computer.
2. Insert the
into the CD-ROM drive. The Autorun program will start the Setup
program, and show the setup screen as follows:
Tip
: If, on your computer, the
Autorun program does not execute
automatically, please 1) enable the
CD-ROM drive Auto-detect function
from Control Panel; or 2) find and
run the setup.exe file manually from
the CD.
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Note: The VGA card shown here may vary from the actual card.
For further information, please visit MSI website at www.msi.com.tw
PCI Express Interface
Dual DVI-I Port
Dual Dual-Link DVI output
supported
512MB DDR4 memory or
256MB DDR4 memory
ATI Radeon HD2600XT
System Requirements
Card Features
For reference only
Unpacking
Please check out the following items to make sure that you get the complete product:
VGA card
Disk: 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 expansion slot
128MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
Operation System Support: visit MSI website for further information
Power supply of 400 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability
For DVI-HDMI adapter, please visit
http://ati.amd.com/
to get the compatible mainboard
information.
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TV_Out Connector (S)
HDTV-Output integrated
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ATI
VGA Drivers
. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
4. After finishing the installation, restart the computer as instructed.
CrossFire Interface
Fully DirectX 10.0 compliant, including full speed 32-bit floating point per component
operations
Shader Model 4.0 geometry and pixel support in a unified shader architecture:
Full speed 32-bit floating point processing per component.
High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending, texture filtering and anti-
aliasing support.
High performance dynamic branching and flow control.
Advanced shader design, with ultra-threading sequencer for high efficiency operations.
Advanced, high performance branching support, including static and dynamic branching.
Full anti-aliasing on render surfaces up to and including 128-bit floating point formats.
Supportfor OpenGLR 2.0
Anti-Aliasing Filtering:
2x/4x/8x modes.
Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns,
and centroid sampling.
Temporal anti-aliasing.
Adaptive anti-aliasing mode.
Lossless color compression (up to 8:1) at all resolutions, up to and including widescreen
HDTV.
Anisotropic Filtering:
2x/4x/8x/16x modes
Up to 128-tap texture filtering.
Advanced Texture Compression (3Dc+ ):
High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps.
Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format.
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New vertex cache and vertex fetch design, to increase vertex throughput from previous
generations.
New multi-level texture cache to give optimal performance, greater than 8x the previous
designs.
High efficiency ring bus memory controller:
Programmable arbitration logic maximizes memory efficiency, software upgradeable.
Fully associative texture, color, and Z cache design.
New hierarchical Z & Stencil buffers with Early Z Test.
New lossless Z-buffer compression for both Z and Stencil.
Fast Z-Buffer Clear.
Z cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.
Integrated HD Audio Controller (Azelia) and Codec
Integrated HD Audio codec supports linear PCM and DolbyR Digital (5.1) audio formats for
HDMI output.
Uses Microsoft UAA driver.
Internally connected to the integrated HDMI interface, hence no external cable required.
PCI device id : AA10h (Azalia), AA11h (Audio Codec).
Support for basic audio (32, 44.1 or 48 kHz stereo) and DolbyR Digital or DTS at the same
sample rates.
DVI/HDMI Features
Fully compliant with the DVI electrical specification.
Fully integrated DVI/HDMI Interface
Supports one single link DVI or one HDMI link (HDMI output on single-link TMDS1 only).
Meets Vista logo requirements.
1650 Mbps/channel with 165 MHz pixel clock rate per link.
Dual-link support for display resolutions up to 3840x2400 per display output.
Flexible support of the following configurations: CRT + DVI/HDMI, TV + DVI/HDMI,
DVI/HDMI + DVI/HDMI.
Maximum pixel frequency of 400 Mhz.
HDCP support available on all DVI and HDMI links with integrated key storage for up to two
simultaneous outputs including dual-link DVI. (Note: HDCP available only to HDCP
licensed buyers).
iDCT/DCT and color space conversion
HW DXVA parser support for iDCT
MPEG-4 Simple Profile support
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding.
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