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

Radeon®X1650 PRO
User’s Guide
P/N 137-41146-10

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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 PRO Features 1
System Requirements 4
Using Multiple Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Display Configurations 9
Using TV Display and Capture Features. . . . . . . 11
Using TV Out 11
Connecting to a TV or VCR 12
Connecting to HDTV 14
Installing Software and Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing Drivers and Software in Windows®17
Monitor Configuration 18
To set up a multi-monitor display 19
Reinstalling Drivers 19
Installing the Catalyst™Software Suite 20
Catalyst™Control Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Launching Catalyst™Control Center 23
CrossFire™FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Welcome to CrossFire™. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
CrossFire™Overview 101
Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Troubleshooting 109
Product Registration 113
Customer Care 113
Additional Accessories 115
Compliance Information 115

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Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Radeon®X1650 PRO Features 1
CHAPTER 1:
Introduction
Congratulations on the purchase of your ATI Radeon®X1650 PRO
graphics card. We hope that you will enjoy countless hours of trouble-free
computing.
Radeon®X1650 PRO 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.

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• 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
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.