MSI RX2900XT-VT2D512E Instruction manual

G52-V8032XC
May 2007
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Under the European Union ("EU") Directive on Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment, Directive 2002/96/EC, which takes
effect on August 13, 2005, products of "electricaland electronic
equipment" cannot be discarded as municipal waste anymore
and manufacturers of covered electronic equipment will be
obligated to take back such products at the end of their useful
life.
WARNING!!
DO NOT touchthe
cooling system since
it may produce a
certain heat while
processing tasks.
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CAUTION!!
Do not force theGPU
cooler against the
fragile GPU toavoid
damage to theGPU.
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Using MSI Live VGA Driver Update
This service enables you to update the latest VGA driver for your VGA card.
1. To update the MSI Live VGA Driver , click Live VGA Driver item on the left
column of the main page.
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2. This utility will start checking your platform and the information on the VGA card, and
display the information in a list.
3. Click the graph button on the bottom to connect MSI Live Update Series Server.
Then, it will automatically connect the Internet and compare the version of the driver
in the database.
4. It may take several minutes to detect the required drivers. Please wait while
proceeding detection.
5. Click the InstallShield Wizard button on the right side of the table to download and
update the driver. All actions will proceed automatically.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the updating procedure.
This service enablesyou to updatethe latest VGABIOS for yourVGA card.
1. Toupdate your VGABIOS, click Live VGA BIOS item on theleft column ofthe main page.
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2. If your VGA card does not support the Live VGA BIOS function, you will receive a warning
message on thescreen.
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3. If your VGAcard do support the Live VGABIOS function, please payattention to themessage
shown on thescreen telling youthat in what circumstance flashing BIOSmay fail toreboot.
4. Click Yes if you would like to try it at your own risk or No to return to the main page with
everything unchanged.
5. If you click Yes to continue, it will check the information and BIOS version of your VGA card,
and list themin a table.
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6. Click the graphbutton at thebottom to connect the MSI Live Update 3 Server.
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7. The MSI Live VGABIOS will automatically connect the Internet and search the supported
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BIOS in thedatabase of MSI .
8. If it has found one (or several) supported BIOS for your VGA card, click the InstallShield
Wizard button on the right side of the table to have the new BIOS downloaded and updated
automatically.
9. Follow the on-screeninstructions to completethe updating procedure.
Using MSI Live VGA BIOS Update
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Installing MSI Live Update
MSI Live Update offers you with brand-new update service experience, which can
significantly save your time while searching files. MSI Live Update is capable to
automatically analyze and list drivers, BIOS, and utilities you need. With the easy-to-
use updating approaches, you can increase the performance of your system easily and
quickly. Follow the instructions below, with a few mouse clicks, you can acquire the
related files for the system updating.
Installing from the Disk
1. Insert the supplied disk into the CD-ROM drive, and start the Setup program.
2. Click the Utility tab on the setup screen.
3. Click the MSI Live Update. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the
installation.
Installing from the MSI Web Site
3. Click Start to Check to download
the Live Update application.
4. Click Install the continue.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions to
complete the installation.
6. Launch MSI Live Update and to
enter the main page of this utility
as shown here.
1. Link to MSI's website at
http://www.msi.com.tw
2. Find and click Live Update Online
on the left side of the web page to
enter MSI Download Center.
RX2900XT series

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Quick Installation
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Follow the steps 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 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.
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expansion
To install the driver of the VGA card to your computer,
CD
please follow the steps below:
1. Turn on the computer.
2. Insert the into the CD-ROM drive. The Autorun program will start the Setup
program, and show the setup screen as follows:
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.
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Overview
Note: The VGA card shown here may vary from the actualcard.
For further information, please visit MSIwebsite at www.msi.com.tw
PCI Express Interface
Dual DVI-I Port
Dual Dual-Link DVIoutput
supported
512MB DDR3 memoryor
1GB DDR4 memory
ATI Radeon HD2900XT
Ring Bus Memory Controller
Fully distributed designwith 1024-bit internalring bus for memory reads andwrites
Optimized for highperformance HDR (HighDynamic Range) rendering at high display
resolutions
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
320 stream processingunits
Dynamic load balancingand resource allocationfor vertex, geometry, and pixelshaders
128-bit floating pointprecision for alloperations
Command processor forreduced CPU overhead
Shader instruction andconstant caches
Up to 80texture fetches perclock cycle
Up to 128textures per pixel
Fully associative multi-leveltexture cache design
DXTC and 3Dc+texture compression
High resolution texturesupport (up to8192 x 8192)
Fully associative textureZ/stencil cache designs
Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencilbuffer
Early Z test,Re-Z, Z Rangeoptimization, and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z &stencil compression (upto 128:1)
Lossless color compression(up to 8:1)
8 render targets(MRTs)with anti-aliasing support
Physics processing support
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System Requirements
Card Features For reference only
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.
To install the VGA card, your computer system needs to meet the following requirements:
Intel Pentium III (and above), AMD K7 (and above), or compatible with expansionslot
128MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
Operation System Support: visit MSI website for further information
Power supply of 500 (and up) watt is highlyrecommended for system stability
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For DVI-HDMI adapter, please visit http://ati.amd.com/ to get thecompatible mainboard
information.
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ower supply of750(and up) wattis highly recommended for system stabilitywhile crossfire
and overdriver functionsare enabled.
Both of thepower connectors onthe card must be attached tocables from asupported power
supply in orderto operate properly at normal clocksettings. Either two6-pin (2x3) power
cables or one6-pin plus one8-pin (2x4) power cable are neededfor standard operation.
The upgraded 8-pinpower supply cableis only required for users wishingto enableATI
Overdrive.
A 750Wor greater powersupply with four available 12V powercables is requiredfor CrossFire.
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Fan Connector
TV_Out / Video_In
Connector
HDTV-Output integrated
Power Connector
Full support for Microsoft DirectX 10.0
Shader Model 4.0
Geometry Shaders
Stream Output
Integer and BitwiseOperations
Alpha to Coverage
Constant Buffers
State Objects
TextureArrays
Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
High performance vertexcache
Programmable tessellation unit
Accelerated geometry shaderpath for geometryamplification
Memory read/write cachefor improved streamoutput performance
Anti-aliasing features
Multi-sample anti-aliasing (up to 8 samplesper pixel)
Up to 24xCustom FilterAnti-Aliasing (CFAA) for improved quality
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
Temporalanti-aliasing
Gamma correct
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Super AA(CrossFire configurations only)
All anti-aliasing featurescompatible with HDRrendering
Texture filtering features
2x/4x/8x/16x high qualityadaptive anisotropic filteringmodes (up to 128 taps perpixel)
128-bit floating pointHDR texture filtering
Bicubic filtering
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
Percentage Closer Filtering(PCF)
Depth & stenciltexture (DST) formatsupport
Shared exponent HDR(RGBE 9:9:9:5) textureformat support
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CrossFire Multi-GPU Technology
Scale up renderingperformance and imagequality with 2 or more GPUs
Integrated compositing engine
High performance dualchannel interconnect
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Avivo Display System Dual DACs & MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
Two independentdisplay controllers
Two integrateddual-link DVI displayoutputs
Two integrated400 MHz 30-bitRAMDACs
HDMI output support
Integrated AMDXilleon HDTV encoder
HD decode accelerationfor H.264/AVC,VC-1, DivX and MPEG-2 video formats
HD video processing
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX,WMV9, VC-1, andH.264/AVC encoding and transcoding
Seamless integration ofpixel shaders withvideo in real time
VGA modesupport on alldisplay outputs
PCI Express x16 bus interface
OpenGL 2.0 support
700 million transistors on 80nm HS fabrication process
512-bit 8-channel GDDR3/4 memory interface
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CrossFire Interface
3. Click ATI VGA Drivers. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
4. After finishing the installation, restart the computer as instructed.