User Guide

7ASUS 3DP-V3000 User’s Manual

I. Introduction

Features

Thank you for purchasing the ASUS 3DP-V3000 Graphics & Video Accelerator.

With the SGS-THOMSON RIVA 128™ built in, the ASUS 3DP-V3000 provides

you with fast acceleration in both 2D/3D graphics and high quality scalable video

playback, which can fully support 3D Gaming and Multimedia Applications.

Item Checklist

þASUS 3DP-V3000

þThis User’s Manual

þASUS Driver & Utility CD

Key Benefits

• Supports professional graphics design, gaming, learning, and business applications

• Flicker free, high refresh rates reduce eye strain

• Powerful 3D rendering

• Crisp, realistic images

• Striking cinema-quality video

Features

• Built-in SGS-THOMSON RIVA 128™ 128-bit 3D Multimedia Accelerator

• User-friendly Installation for Windows 95 and Windows 3.x.

• Built-in VIP Bus Connectors for TV Tuner, Video Capture, MPEG-1, and MPEG-II

• Acceleration for Windows 95 APIs, including Direct3D and DirectDraw (+ VPE)

• Acceleration for WinNT APIs, including Direct3D, DirectDraw, OpenGL MCD

• Massive array of floating point Geometry Processing Units

• 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw Acceleration

• Video Acceleration (including acceleration for MPEG-I, MPEG-II, and Indeo)

• X and Y up and down video scaling

• 230MHz Palette-DAC

• 4MB 128-bit 100MHz SGRAM frame buffer interface with 1.6GB/s bus bandwidth

• Excellent performance at high resolutions and color depths

IMPORTANT! External devices and ASUS Video cards both have NTSC and PAL

versions. You must make sure that all your devices and the ASUS Video card are of

the same type or else you will not have video capabilities.