ATI Technologies RADEON X1950 XTX Manuale utente

ATI

Radeon

X1950 XTX

User’s Guide

P/N 137-41074-10

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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.

LIMPORTANT 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Radeon® X1950 XTX Features 1

Before You Begin 4

Installing Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Connecting Devices 9

Using Multiple Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Connecting Your Monitors 11

Display Configurations 13

Installing Software and Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Installing Drivers and Software in Windows®15

Monitor Configuration 16

To set up a multi-monitor display 17

Reinstalling Drivers 17

Installing the Catalyst™Software Suite 18

Catalyst™Control Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Help 21

Displays Manager 21

Video 22

Display Options 22

Color 23

Monitor Properties 23

CrossFire™23

Component Video Properties 24

Digital Panel Properties 24

Hotkeys Manager 25

Profiles Manager 25

Preferences 25

CrossFire™26

Profiles Manager 27

Using TV Display and Capture Features . . . . . . . 29

Using TV Out 29

Connecting to HDTV 31

Using the Radeon® X1950 XTX

with CrossFire™. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

CrossFire™Overview 35

CrossFire™Rendering Modes 35

Super Anti-aliasing Mode 39

CrossFire™FAQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Troubleshooting 49

Product Registration 53

Customer Care 53

Additional Accessories 55

Compliance Information 55

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Radeon® X1950 XTX Features 1

CHAPTER 1:

Introduction

Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon® X1950 XTX

graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free

computing.

Radeon® X1950 XTX Features

Graphic Features

• Native PCI Express®X16 bus support.

• 256MB or 512 MB GDDR4\GDDR3 on-board memory.

• Full support for Microsoft ® DirectX®Shader Model 3.0.

• High performance Ultra-Threaded shader engine.

• Eight vertex shader processors.

• Forty-eight pixel shader processors.

• 512-bit internal ring-bus memory controller.

• 256-bit 8-channel memory interface.

• Native PCI Express®x16 bus interface.

SmoothVision™

• Full-scene anti-aliasing method that smooths uneven edges and

improves blurred images.

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-aliasing modes with a loss-less compression up to a

ratio of 6:1 at all resolutions.

• 2x/4x//8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes with up to 128-tap

texture filtering.

HyperZ™

• Ensures optimal hardware performance by discarding irrelevant

object data that is not visible to the user.

2 Radeon® X1950 XTX Features

• Conserves video memory bandwidth.

• Loss-less Z-buffer compression

• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.

VideoShader™

• Seamlessly integrates pixel shaders with video in real time.

• All format DTV/HDTV decoding.

• Adaptive Per-Pixel- De-interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion.

512-bit Ring Bus Memory Controller

• Programmable intelligent arbitration logic.

• New fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs.

• Hierarchal Z-buffer with Early Z test.

• Lossless Z Compression (up to 48.1)

• Fast Z-Buffer Clear.

• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.

• Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including

widescreen HDTV resolutions.

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.

• Up to 512 simultaneous pixel threads.

• Dedicated branch execution units for high performance dynamic

branching and flow control.

• Dedicated texture address units for improved efficiency.

• High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k).

• Up to 1,536 instructions per rendering pass.

• 3Dc+ texture compression

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

maps.

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

• Multiple Render Target (MRT) support.

Radeon® X1950 XTX Features 3

• Render-to-vertex buffer support.

• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL®2.0

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Rendering

• 64-bit floating point HDR supported throughout the pipeline

• Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing.

• High precision 10:10:10:2 integer format support.

• Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing.

• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes

• Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction,

programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling.

• New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing 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.

4 Before You Begin

System Requirements

Before You Begin

Before you begin installing your new graphics card, please do the

following.

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® 550 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.

Operating

System • Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2).

• Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition.

• Windows® 2000.

•Windows®Vista.

Monitor • High-resolution MultiSync or multi-frequency monitors

or any other type of VGA monitor.

• Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT display.

CrossFire™

Compatibility If you are planning on using this graphics card as part of a

CrossFire™ system, the following is required:

• A CrossFire™ certified motherboard with two (2) PCI

Express® X16 slots and correct PCIe™ chipset driver.

(See ati.com/crossfire for a list of CrossFire™

certified motherboards.)

• a CrossFire™ Edition graphics card from the same

product series that works as the Master graphics card.

More information on the requirements for each of these

components can be found within the CrossFire™ FAQ.

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