MSI RX2600XT Quick Use Guide - Page 2

Overview 1 Fan Connector 512MB DDR4 memory or 256MB DDR4 memory ATI Radeon HD2600XT PCI Express Interface CrossFire Interface TV_Out Connector (S) HDTV-Output integrated Dual DVI-I Port Dual Dual-Link DVI output supported Note: The VGA card shown here may vary from the actual card. For further information, please visit MSI website at www.msi.com.tw Getting Started 2 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. System Requirements To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements: Intel R Pentium IIITM (and above), R AMD R 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. Card Features For reference only Fully DirectX 10.0 compliant, including full speed 32-bit floating point per component operations - Full symmetry on both heads. - 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 efficiencyoperations. - 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+TM ): - High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps. - Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format. G 3 etting Started - 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 bufferswith Early Z Test. - New lossless Z-buffercompression 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 UAAdriver. - 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 logorequirements. - 1650 Mbps/channel with 165 MHz pixel clock rate per link. - Supports industry standard EIA-861B video modes including 480p, 720p and 1080i. For a full list of currently supported modes, contact your AMD CSS representative. AvivoTM Display System -- Dual DACs & MPEG 1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration: - 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 availableon 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 colorspace conversion - HW DXVAparser support for iDCT - MPEG-4 Simple Profile support - All-format DTV/HDTV decoding. Q 4 uick Installation Hardware Follow the steps below 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 expansion 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. Software R To install the driver of the VGA card to your computer, please follow the steps below: 1. Turn on the computer. 2. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive. The Autorun program will start the Setup Inpsrtoagrlalmi,nagndMshoSwItThMe Live Update 3 setup screen as follows:TM 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. 3. Click ATI VGA Drivers. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. 4. After finishing the installation, restart the computer as instructed.