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Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited. iii 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 detailing user installation of card cage accessories. Grounding - For continued protection against risk of electric shock and fire, this accessory should be installed only in products equipped with a three-wire grounding plug, a plug having a third (grounding) pin. This plug will only fit into a grounding-type power outlet. This is a safety feature. If you are unable to insert the plug into the outlet, contact your electrician to replace the obsolete outlet. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the grounding-type plug. Secure Attachment - All card securement pins shall be completely tightened as to provide continuous bonding between the option card and the PC chassis. Lightning - For added protection for this product during a lightning storm, or when it is left unattended and unused for long periods of time, unplug it from the wall outlet, and disconnect the antenna or cable system. This will prevent damage to the product due to lightning and power-line surges. Power Lines - An outside antenna system should not be located in the vicinity of overhead power lines or other light or power circuits, or where it can fall into such power lines or circuits. Antenna Installation - When installing an outside antenna system, extreme care should be taken to keep from touching such power lines or circuits, as contact with them may be fatal. · · · · · Note: This graphics card is for use only with compatible UL Listed personal computers that have Installation Instructions detailing user installation of card cage accessories. iv v Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Radeon® X1600 Series Features Features System Requirements External Connections Before You Begin Record Your Serial and Part Numbers Uninstall Previous Graphics Card Drivers 1 1 4 4 5 5 5 Installing Your ATI Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Installing Hardware Graphics Card Bus Types Basic Graphics Card Installation Advanced Installation: AGP Advanced Installation: PCIeTM Connecting Devices 7 7 7 9 11 13 Using Multiple Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting Your Monitors Display Configurations 15 17 Installing Software and Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Installing Drivers and Software in Windows® Software Installation Prerequisites Monitor Configuration Reinstalling Drivers Installing the CatalystTM Software Suite 19 19 20 21 22 CatalystTM Control Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Launching CatalystTM Control Center Launching CatalystTM Control Center Using the Start Menu Other Quick Launch Access Points CatalystTM Control Center Dashboard CatalystTM Control Center Views Basic View Advanced View 25 25 26 28 29 29 29 vi Custom View Hotkeys Manager Profiles Manager Preferences Help Information Center Displays Manager Displays Manager Display Options Monitor Properties Monitor Attributes Digital Panel Properties Attributes AvivoTM Color HDTV Support 3D Standard Settings Anti-aliasing Adaptive Anti-aliasing Anisotropic Filtering CatalystTM A.I. Mipmap Detail Level SmartShaderTM All Settings Set the Anti-Aliasing preference manually API Specific Color Color Desktop Color - FullScreen 3D AvivoTM Video for Radeon® Series starting from 9500 Standard Settings Adjustments Video Overlay Theater Mode Deinterlacing All Settings VPU Recover CrossFireTM 29 30 32 34 36 37 38 39 44 47 48 49 50 52 53 55 56 58 60 60 62 64 65 66 67 69 71 72 75 76 77 78 80 81 83 86 88 Using TV Display and Capture Features . . . . . . . 95 Using TV Out Viewing Your PC's Display on a TV Connecting to a TV Using a Monitor vs. Using TV Display Viewing Text on a TV 95 95 95 96 97 vii Using a TV as the Only Display Using Games and Applications Connecting to HDTV Using Your ATI HDTV Video Cable 97 97 97 99 CrossFireTM FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Troubleshooting Product Registration Customer Care Getting Additional Accessories Compliance Information FCC Compliance Information Industry Canada Compliance Statement CE Compliance Information Informations de conformité de la CE Electrical Safety Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive Compliance 105 109 109 111 111 111 112 112 112 112 113 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 viii Radeon® X1600 Series Features 1 CHAPTER 1: Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1600 Series graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free computing. Radeon® X1600 Series 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 configurations also supported with AGP-PCI-E external bridge chip. · Dynamic Voltage Control. Ring Bus Memory Controller · 256-bit internal ring bus for memory reads. · Programmable intelligent arbitration logic. · Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs. · Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test. · Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1). · Fast Z-Buffer Clear. · Z/stencil cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering. Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine · Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware. · Full speed 128-bit floating point processing. 2 Radeon® X1600 Series Features · 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 singlechannel data formats. · Multiple Render Target (MRT) support. · Render-to-vertex buffer support. · Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® 2.0 Advanced Image Quality Features · 64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline. · Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing. · 32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the pipeline. · Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing. · 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes. · Multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sparse sample patterns, and centroid sampling. · New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and Quality modes. · Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode. · Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions. · 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes. · Up to 128-tap texture filtering. · Adaptive algorithm with Performance and Quality options. · High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k). AvivoTM Video and Display Platform · High performance programmable video processor. · Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding and transcoding. · DXVA support. · De-blocking and noise reduction filtering. Radeon® X1600 Series Features 3 · 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 point HDR and 10 bit per channel DVI output. · Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion (10 bits per color). · Complete, independent color controls and video overlays for each display. · High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all outputs. · Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays. · XilleonTM TV encoder for high quality analog output. · YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays*. · Spatial/temporal dithering enables 10-bit color quality on 8-bit and 6-bit displays. · Fast, glitch-free mode switching. · VGA mode support on all outputs. · Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates. · Compatible with ATI TV/Video encoder products, including Theater 550. CrossFireTM · Multi-GPU technology · Four modes of operation: · · · · Alternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance) Supertiling (optimal load-balancing) Scissor (compatibility) Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality) Note: Not all features apply to all Radeon® X1600 Series graphics cards. Note: CrossFireTM is supported in CatalystTM version 5.13 4 System Requirements *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 accommodate a high-end graphics card with a peak dissipation above 75 watts. Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2). Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition. Windows® XP Media Center Edition. Windows® Vista Ready. High-resolution MultiSync or multi-frequency monitors or any other type of VGA monitor. Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT display. Operating System · · · · · · Monitor CrossFireTM Compatibility If you are planning on using this graphics card as part of a CrossFireTM system, the following is required: · A CrossFireTM certified motherboard with two (2) PCI Express® X16 slots and correct PCIeTM chipset driver. (See ati.com/crossfire for a list of CrossFireTM certified motherboards.) · Another standand Radeon® X1600 Series graphics card. The Radeon® X1600 Series does not require a CrossFireTM Edition card for CrossFireTM support. More information on the requirements for each of these components can be found within the CrossFireTM FAQ. Externa ...