ATI Technologies X1650 - AMD Radeon XT 256MB PCI-E Graphics... User manual

Radeon®X1650
GTO
User’s Guide
P/N 137-41163-10

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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.

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Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Radeon®X1650 GTO Features 1
System Requirements 3
Using Multiple Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Catalyst™Control Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Launching Catalyst™Control Center 9
Catalyst™Control Center Dashboard 11
Catalyst™Control Center Views 12
Hotkeys Manager 13
Profiles Manager 15
Preferences 17
Help 19
Information Center 20
Displays Manager 22
Display Options 27
Monitor Properties 31
Monitor Attributes 32
Digital Panel Properties 33
Attributes 34
HDTV Support 37
3D 39
Standard Settings 40
Anti-aliasing 42
Adaptive Anti-aliasing 44
Anisotropic Filtering 44
Catalyst™A.I. 46
Mipmap Detail Level 48
All Settings 50
API Specific 53
Color 55
Color Desktop 56
Color - FullScreen 3D 59
Avivo™ Video 61
Standard Settings 62
Video Overlay Theater Mode 64

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Deinterlacing 66
All Settings 67
VPU Recover 71
Using TV Display and Capture Features . . . . . . . 75
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Radeon®X1650 GTO Features 1
CHAPTER 1:
Introduction
Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon®X1650 GTO
graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free
computing.
Radeon®X1650 GTO Features
Features
• HDMI™and VGA output.
• 256MB of DDR2 memory.
• PCI Express®X16 bus interface.
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.
• 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 single-
channel data formats.
• Multiple Render Target (MRT) support.
• Render-to-vertex buffer support.
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL®2.0

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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).
Avivo™ 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.
• 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).

System Requirements 3
• 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.
• Xilleon™ TV encoder for high quality analog output.
• 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.
System Requirements
External Connections
• 15-pin D-shell (female) VGA output.
• HDMI™output.
Operating
System •Windows
® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2).
•Windows
® XP Professional x64 Edition.
•Windows
® XP Media Center Edition.
Monitor • High-resolution MultiSync or multi-frequency monitors
or any other type of VGA monitor.
• Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays capable of HDMI™
input.

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