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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 DDR3 memory or
1GB DDR4 memory
ATI Radeon HD2900XT
Ring Bus Memory Controller
Fully distributed design with 1024-bit internal ring bus for memory reads and writes
Optimized for high performance HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering at high display
resolutions
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
320 stream processing units
Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
128-bit floating point precision for all operations
Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
Shader instruction and constant caches
Up to 80 texture fetches per clock cycle
Up to 128 textures per pixel
Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
Early Z test, Re-Z, Z Range optimization, and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing support
Physics processing support
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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 500 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability
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For DVI-HDMI adapter, please visit
http://ati.amd.com/
to get the compatible mainboard
information.
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ower supply of 750(and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability while crossfire
and overdriver functions are enabled.
Both of the power connectors on the card must be attached to cables from a supported power
supply in order to operate properly at normal clock settings. Either two 6-pin (2x3) power
cables or one 6-pin plus one 8-pin (2x4) power cable are needed for standard operation.
The upgraded 8-pin power supply cable is only required for users wishing to enable ATI
Overdrive.
A 750W or greater power supply with four available 12V power cables is required for CrossFire.
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Fan Connector
TV_Out / Video_In
Connector
HDTV-Output integrated
Power Connector
Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0
Shader Model 4.0
Geometry Shaders
Stream Output
Integer and Bitwise Operations
Alpha to Coverage
Constant Buffers
State Objects
Texture Arrays
Dynamic
Geometry
Acceleration
High performance vertex cache
Programmable tessellation unit
Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
Anti-aliasing
features
Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samples per pixel)
Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
Temporal anti-aliasing
Gamma correct
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Super AA (CrossFire configurations only)
All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
Texture filtering features
2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
Bicubic filtering
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
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CrossFire
Multi-GPU
Technology
Scale up rendering performance and image quality with 2 or more GPUs
Integrated compositing engine
High performance dual channel interconnect
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Avivo Display System
Dual DACs & MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
Two independent display controllers
Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
HDMI output support
Integrated AMD Xilleon HDTV encoder
HD decode acceleration for H.264/AVC, VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 video formats
HD video processing
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
VGA mode support on all display outputs
PCI Express x16 bus interface
OpenGL 2.0 support
700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process
512-bit 8-channel GDDR3/4 memory interface
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CrossFire Interface
3. Click
ATI
VGA Drivers
. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
4. After finishing the installation, restart the computer as instructed.
