User`s manual

7ASUS AGP-V3000 User’s Manual

I. Introduction

Checklist/Features

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

With the SGS-THOMSON RIVA 128™ built in, the ASUS AGP-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

þ ASUS AGP-V3000

þ This User’s Manual

þ ASUS 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 Windows NT APIs, including Direct3D, and DirectDraw

• 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

• 206MHz Palette-DAC

• AGP 1.0 Interface

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

• Excellent performance at high resolutions and color depths