Powered by ATI RADEON™9600, Excalibur RADEON™9600 is the enhanced Performance class graphics board, featuring ATI's RADEON™ 9600 Visual Processing Unit (VPU). Through a combination of incredible 3D rendering performance, sophisticated real-time visual effects, unsurpassed image quality and cutting-edge video features, it provides incredible gaming power at a competitive price point.

HIS Excalibur RADEON™9600 features 4-pipeline architecture for high rendering power, 128/256MB of DDR memory to accelerate latest 3D games and with SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology, Excalibur RADEON™9600 series supports Microsoft DirectX®9.0 and the latest OpenGL® functionality allowing gamers to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications.

Excalibur RADEON™9600 supports the AGP 8X standard and 128-bit memory bus, which allows large volume of texture and vertex data to be transferred faster from system memory to the chip. With ATI's new VIDEOSHADER™ technology, Excalibur RADEON™9600 continues the tradition of providing industry-leading video and DVD playback and also offers FULLSTREAM™-a new technology that removes blocky artifacts from video and provides sharper image quality.

Features

Features ATI's TRUFORM™2.0, SMARTSHADER™2.0 and SMOOTHVISION™2.1, and HYPER™Z III+ technologies

SMARTSHAER™2.0 technology supports DirectX®9.0 and enables more complex and realistic lighting effects

Sharper-looking 3D graphics with ATI SMOOTHVISION™2.1 technology

TRUFORM™2.0 technology that makes the outlines of 3D characters and objects look smoother and more natural than ever before

AGP 8X Support

Dual display support with HYDRAVISION™

Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024 x 768 resolution

Integrated DVI-compliant TMDS transmitter

Graphics Processor

Powered by ATI RADEON™ 9600 Visual Processing Unit

325MHz Graphics Engine Clock

Memory Configuration

128/256MB DDR memory

128-bit memory interface

RAMDAC

Dual integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs
operating at up to 400MHz

Bus Interface

AGP 8X / 4X

Connectors

On board 15-pin VGA connector for CRTmonitor

On board S-Video connector for TV-Out

On board DVI-I connector for Digital Flat Panel

External DVI-I to VGA adapter for Secondary CRT monitor

Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays