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| The RADEON X600 Pro 256 MB is the first PCI Express Multimedia graphic card
from ATI. If you do not know the difference between an AGP and a PCI Express graphic card, click here to learn more details Click here to listen to LadyDragon's review of the ATI All In Wonder X600 Pro Here's more in depth and technicles information for you to read. Featuring the RADEON X600 PRO graphics engine, the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO is able to rocket through graphics barriers with double the bandwidth of AGP 8X through the new PCI Express interface for best-in-class gaming performance. ATI’s offering of combined 3D graphics, TV, DVD, audio and video editing tools launches your PC into a new realm of multimedia capabilities. ATI has continued to change with the times, incorporating integrated TV encoders, HDTV-ready display outputs, DirectX® 9 support, accelerated video processing with user-programmable video effects, and deinterlacing algorithms into their product lines. The ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO brings support for the latest high-definition and wide displays, as well as offering both DVI and VGA connections. With full DirectX® 9 support and 256MB DDR memory configuration, the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO’s high frame rates and cinematic video quality creates an improved gaming experience. Including a new input and output dongle scheme, next generation silicon tuner, and FM radio, the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO enhances quality, performance, and overall end user experience. The ALL-IN-WONDER X600 Pro is also the first ALL-IN-WONDER to support a full internal Digital Audio Path. You no longer need to connect your ALL-IN-WONDER to your system sound card to hear the TV broadcast within ATI MULTIMEDIA CENTER. This makes installation easier and trouble free. The ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO was designed for PCI Express users who are interested in upgrading their systems to a complete multimedia PC. Not only does the videocard include ATI’s high quality RADEON X600 PRO graphics processor, but it also offers advanced TV, DVD, FM, and audio/video features for home theater and video editing. High quality video and superb 3D graphics make this solution appealing for both the gamer and multimedia enthusiast with no performance or feature limitations. ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO customers are likely to be gamers, with PCI Express systems, who also want the feature set of the ALL-IN-WONDER graphics cards, without sacrificing any of the speed and power associated with the RADEON graphics processor. Technical Specifications RADEON X600 PRO graphics The RADEON X600 PRO graphics chip has pushed the boundaries of existing graphics solutions. With 400MHz engine speed, and 256MB DDR 600MHz memory speed this is one of the fastest video processor available today in its segment. Outlined below are some of the key features of the new RADEON X600 PRO graphics core. Latest Process Technology RADEON X600 PRO takes advantage of ATI’s engineering leadership by furthering the lead it initiated with the RADEON 9600 PRO. The RADEON X600 PRO uses TSMC 0.13 micron copper low-k manufacturing process to achieve higher clock speeds without the huge power consumption requirements found on competitor boards. • Copper interconnects have lower resistance than aluminum used in 0.15 micron process • Low-k dielectric material reduces capacitance • Can achieve 25% clock speed increase with just 10% increase in power • Lower power means less heat and lower energy bills • Does not require a power connector Benefits: Low power – one slot solutions which output less heat. Advantages: RADEON X600 PRO can work in many different PC classes such as Small Form Factor PCs, where competition enthusiast solutions can not be used (too loud, require huge power supplies, and take up too many slots). Powerful Floating Point Hardware The RADEON X600 PRO contains a powerful calculation engine delivering several times the performance found in competing products. RADEON X600 Series Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz • 70 Million Transistors • up to 51 GigaFLOPS • 55 Million Transistors • 12 GigaFLOPS Benefits: 4-5x more powerful than a high end CPU with ~6x more computations per transistor. Advantages: Allows today’s and tomorrows games to run blazingly faster than any other available solution. Supercharged for DirectX9.0 The industry’s fastest full featured DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 1.5 hardware capable of delivering real-time useable features. Key ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO Features • FOUR parallel 3D rendering pipelines, each with full DirectX9 Pixel Shader 2.0 support running at full speed. • Shader optimized architecture based on the industry standard HLSL (high level shading language) and GLSL (OpenGL shading language) • Dedicated geometry acceleration for Direct3D and OpenGL, which incorporates TWO parallel Vector / Scalar Engines performing HW transformation, clipping and lighting, including: • Vertex Blending (skinning) with 4 matrices. • 6 user defined clip planes. • 8 light support with Directional and Local Lighting. • Runs the industry’s latest rendering technologies faster than anyone else: • Full Precision High Dynamic Range to reduce high luminance colour banding. • Perspective Shadow Buffers to increase shadow precision by applying a view dependent projection on the shadow map • Subsurface Scattering – for advanced realism on how objects react to light • Realistic Hair / Skin Models for cinematic type realism Benefit: Gamers will use and experience the value of their purchase Advantages: Sets the RADEON products a tier above the closest competition by delivering differentiating features that can be experienced today, not in next generation hardware. True PCI Express The RADEON X600 PRO video processor was designed to have a native 16 lane support, or “true” PCI Express interface. As a result it can communicate directly with the PCI Express bus at PCI Express speeds. Other graphics companies have cards that are compatible with PCI Express, but they are still only AGP cards that are “bridged” by a second chip to be physically compatible with PCI Express slots on the motherboard. This architecture can only work at AGP speeds, and is more vulnerable to failure,performance bottlenecks and incompatibility with software applications. Key Benefits • Better reliability There are fewer failure points with native one-chip ATI PCI Express due to the smaller number of physical connections, which lowers the time delay between when data is requested and when it is delivered. This also translates into more robust error correction and recovery than bridged PCI Express. • Better power management The serial bus with the reduced pin structure of the ATI native PCI Express architecture reduces the number of signals required, supporting lower power consumption and PCI Express's lowpower idle states. • More cost efficient Unlike the bridged chip, the native one-chip design of new ATI PCI Express graphics processors will be brought on stream without significant incremental system cost. Benefits: The RADEON X600 PRO sets the new bar for PCI Express Performance with a powerful combination of the industry’s fastest true PCI Express architecture and fastest rendering pipelines. Advantages: Offers full bandwidth for bidirectional traffic that bridge solutions cannot offer. Will mean the upcoming HDTV applications from companies such as Pinnacle will require true PCI Express hardware. 2D Acceleration Features The industry’s fastest 2D acceleration engine includes a refined suite of 2D hardware optimizations to improve the Microsoft Windows experience. • Optimized handling of fonts / text using ATI proprietary techniques. • Game acceleration with support for Microsoft DirectDraw: Double Buffering, Virtual Sprites, Transparent Blit, and Masked Blit. • Support for WIN XP GDI extensions and direct support of WIN 2000 & WIN XP alpha cursor standard. Benefit: Accelerates everyday Windows applications Advantages: Combined with a 400MHz RAMDAC means users will have the best quality display along with blazingly fast 2D output. Video Acceleration Features The RADEON X600 PRO possesses the best video acceleration features in its class for home theater, multimedia, and internet applications used by millions each day. Industry leading technologies include: • MPEG-4 simple profile hardware acceleration • WMV9 decoding assist • Supports top quality DVD / DTV / HDTV decode with low CPU usage. • Enhanced MPEG-2 hardware encode/decode acceleration: • Adaptive de-interlacing filter eliminates video artifacts caused by displaying interlaced video on noninterlaced displays, by analyzing image and using optimal de-interlacing function on a per-pixel basis. • Built in support to accelerate the most popular movie formats Benefit: Transforms a regular computer into a multimedia powerhouse while reducing extra costs associated with additional hardware decoders Advantages: Unrivaled multimedia support that is several generations ahead of any other graphics board vendor. Image Quality Features High Quality Texture Filtering The RADEON X600 PRO uses an adaptive filtering method that provides up to full 100% trilinear filtering to remove the banding effect that appears between adjacent mip map levels, unlike the competition which at best can use enhanced bilinear filtering. Bilinear filtering is computationally cheap but as a result, it is low quality. By approximating the gaps between textures by sampling the color of the four closest (above, below, left and right) texels, it produces noticeable drops in quality. ATI’s filtering determines the optimal amount of pixels to produce smoother transitions between mip map levels which results in the best possible gaming experience for users. 16x Adaptive Anisotropic Filtering. This feature improves the clarity of textures, far beyond the blurry and undersampled textures rendered by competitor solutions. By adaptively determining the number of samples used, the RADEON X600 PRO provides the highest quality image. High Quality 6x Gamma Corrected Anti-Aliasing. While other solutions produce images that look jagged, the RADEON X600 PRO implements proper gamma correction to ensure that images are sharp but smooth Up to |
Benefits: Games and applications look much better on the RADEON X600 PRO. Combine this with the fastest performance in its price segment; the RADEON X600 PRO is the VPU users want. Advantages: The RADEON X600 PRO produces the industry’s highest image quality at full cinematic performance. 12x Effective Anti-Aliasing. With its highly programmable architecture, the RADEON X600 PRO can support Temporal AA patterns to simulate MSAA patterns never before imagined with NO performance penalties. Board Configurations AIW X600 Series Graphics Controller RADEON X600 PRO VPU Memory 128MB / 256MB DDR Bus Type PCI Express x16 Lanes Native API support OpenGL 1.5, DirectX 9.0c OS support Windows XP, 2000, ME Maximum 3D Resolution 2048 x 1536 ( 16.7M colours ) Monitor Support VGA , DVI-I , TV-Output ATI Silicon Tuner When observing the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO graphics board before installation, notice that the board isn’t overcrowded with a bulky metallic tuner can. Instead you’ll find a gold plated tuner can with a silicon chip underneath. The chip looks and is similar in size to the one shown below. Thanks to the new ATI Silicon tuner, big, oversized tuners of the past are no longer necessary. The ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO utilizes a new silicon tuner with to implement total RF functionality. The tuner features a 48 MHz to 860 MHz input range, requires minimal external components, and contains no manually tunable parts. It not only receives and tunes the RF signal, but also enhances it for distribution through the rest of the video decoding process. The tuner features low phase noise, low noise figure, high linearity and approximately 1½ watts of power consumption. The use of the new silicon tuner has many benefits over other tuner implementations. Most importantly the chip offers quality advantages, power savings, and space savings. Another benefit of using fewer parts is lower power usage. Today’s graphics cards demand an ever increasing amount of power, therefore saving power wherever possible is essential to the future of the power hungry, high performance cards. Today’s graphics cards are demanding more and more space on the PCB since faster processors require more parts, therefore space savings is very important to future generations of multimedia video cards. With the addition of this new technology, the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO contains many features which weren’t previously available due to the restricting size of older tuners. Both VGA and DVI connectors are available on the bracket of the card, which was not previously possible. These benefits are not purely for the manufacturer of the video card, but also to the end user. The video quality is crystal clear and the tuner is very quick to respond to channel changes. Combined with the THEATER 200 video decoder, the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO offers a highly integrated, high performance and high quality solution to all TV-on-PC needs. New Input/Output Dongles All new with the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO are the next generation of input/output cables offered by ATI. The new cables were designed to improve the overall ease of use for the customer. All of the input/output connections of the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO are handled through only one connection on the card bracket. This connection leads to four other soft wire connections rather than hard connections on the bracket: two for the easily accessible RF connectors designed to connect your cable/antenna signal and FM radio antenna, one for the input dongle, and one for the output dongle. The audio connections on the new output dongle are optional. The green pass-through connector enables system sounds to be sent to the ALL-IN-WONDER output cable -- useful when outputting edited video to a camcorder or VCR. The blue connection to the system sound card’s line input is also optional for use with legacy applications that don’t yet utilize the digital audio pathway. The orange SPDIF connector enables Dolby™ digital audio when connected to your home theater amplifier or other surround sound decoders. The input/output dongles can be set up in a “domino style” as pictured below. This unique design allows the user to configure the dongles in various ways. The new dongles are more aesthetically pleasing than previous versions, and offer all of the traditional inputs and outputs plus more, including an analog audio output. Additionally, the cables are designed to be long enough to reduce the user’s concern about crawling underneath their desk each time to connect a new device to their ALL-IN-WONDER card. There is also an optional YPrPb output cable available separately. THEATER 200 At the heart of the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO lies ATI’s THEATER 200 video decoder. This chip has proven itself as the industry leader in video decoding quality and has been present in ATI multimedia products since it made its first splash with the ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 9700 Pro. With that said, it is only natural that the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO also harness the power the THEATER 200 holds. THEATER 200 is responsible for receiving analog video signals and transforming them into digital ITU- 656 compliant digital video data. The chip is also the stereo decoder, and it captures sound IF or composite audio, performs audio demodulation and stereo decoding and outputs the audio via the I2S or VIP interface. THEATER 200 is packaged in a 100-pin LQFP has a lower then average power consumption of only .86 watts, and features a wide selection of inputs and outputs. The chip can be setup to use 5 composite or 5 s-video inputs. Once the signal is received from either the TV tuner or other device connected through the composite or s-video inputs, it is passed through an analog to digital converter. The signal is then sent through the video decoder which houses the comb filter. THEATER 200 utilizes a 2D-3 line comb filter which is used to separate the color information and brightness information of the signal (except for when an s-video input is used). These two signals make up what is known as a Y/C signal or luminance and chrominance, also known as s-video. From this point, the Y/C signal is passed into the video scaler which adjusts the size or zoom rate of the video to be displayed on the screen. The video scaler is an important feature of the chip because if not properly implemented, many artifacts and blockiness will be introduced into the video. After the video is scaled it is changed into a digital format recognized by the video card, then displayed on your monitor or other viewing device. What makes THEATER 200 better than competing solutions is a combination of the chip features and the integration with the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO. The 2D 3-line comb filter is the best in the market in terms of color separation and speed. The dual 12 bit analog-to-digital converters (ADC’s) assure that the digital signal replicates the analog to the highest degree possible. Through years of experience implementing THEATER 200, ATI engineers have learned how to utilize the chip to its fullest potential, resulting in benefits such as a lower-than-average power consumption of only 0.858W. This results in the chip running cooler, faster and ensures the highest quality video output. Through years of development and successful implementations, the THEATER 200 has become the video decoder of choice for watching TV on the PC, and the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO provides another example of the power THEATER 200 holds. MULTIMEDIA CENTER MULTIMEDIA CENTER is the software compliment to any of the ALL-IN-WONDER and TV WONDER products. MULTIMEDIA CENTER offers users a consistent user interface across several integrated applications to control viewing, capture, playback, display options and viewing environment. The MULTIMEDIA CENTER suite of applications now includes features such as Library, DVD Player, EAZYLAUNCH, EAZYLOOK, a huge selection of recording formats and a consistent user interface across all of the applications. ALL-IN-WONDER line of products is the ability to capture content from a limitless number of video sources. Using the TV Player, users can choose which input source they would like to record from and also select a wide range of recording formats. MULTIMEDIA CENTER also has built in personal video recorder (PVR) capabilities, that allow users to pause live TV, then rewind or fast forward (not past the live signal of course), and then resume playback. This feature, known as TV-ON-DEMAND, gives the ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO all of the features of a top of the line set-top personal video recorder at a fraction of the cost. You can pause and resume live TV, MULTIMEDIA CENTER allows you to export TV shows that are stored in memory to either MPEG format or the ATI VCR format. With the simple click of a button, the user can select which shows currently stored in memory they would like to export. After you record your shows, either with the TV-ON-DEMAND function or the ONE TOUCH RECORD button, you have to the ability to transcode these recordings into MPEG-4 by using the MULTIMEDIA CENTER Library. The MPEG-4 setting compresses the recording making it easier to store files on portable devices. Or, if you prefer, you can record the show directly to MPEG-4 at the time of capture. The Library also offers a convenient interface to manage other multimedia files on your computer. By simply double clicking on any of the files in the Library, MULTIMEDIA CENTER’s File Player will open and play the file. If you prefer to export your data to a DVD and view it on your standalone DVD player, Library also provides a solution for this. You may also use the “export” command to convert your videos to other video formats, WMV, AVI, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. The ALL-IN-WONDER X600 PRO offers ATI’s REMOTE WONDER and REMOTE WONDER II as an optional accessory upgrade. If used, the REMOTE WONDER/REMOTE WONDER II unleashes the true power of MULTIMEDIA CENTER with two features known as EAZYLOOK and EAZYLAUNCH. With the touch of a button the user can enter into EAZYLOOK -- a 10 foot distance user interface designed to let users enjoy all of the features of MULTIMEDIA CENTER from the couch rather than at a computer desk. While in EAZYLOOK mode, users have the ability to switch between any of the MULTIMEDIA CENTER applications with ease, by utilizing EAZYLAUNCH. REMOTE WONDER and REMOTE WONDER II Available as an optional accessory, ATI’s REMOTE WONDER and REMOTE WONDER II™. This remote allows you to operate your PC mouse without being tied to your system by a cable. It is simple to install and operates using radio frequencies (RF) that work from up to 30 feet away for the REMOTE WONDER and up to 60 feet away for the REMOTE WONDER II and even through walls. Enhance your multimedia experience with control and enjoy the freedom to roam. Now you can use your creativity to dream up all kinds of new uses for your PC! Benefits The REMOTE WONDER/REMOTE WONDER II offers complete control of your PC, through walls, around corners and even through floors. You can even program buttons on your remote to perform a multitude of operations. The REMOTE WONDER II also comes with IR (infrared) blasting capabilities, allowing you to control not only your computer, but other electronic devices which use IR communication. Usage Scenario Whether you use the remote to control your personal music jukebox, as a portable notebook presentation tool, a home video server controller, or a full-on home-theater remote. The REMOTE WONDER and REMOTE WONDER II™ allows you to control your PC-based home theater from another room. |
Notes Manufacturer VPU=Visual Processing Unit Memory PCI Express Key Features •
4 parallel redering pipelines Specification Chip
Type: RV380 Display Support •
VGA connector for analog CRT Minimum Requirements •
Windows 2000 and XP Inside the Box • PCI Express graphics board with 1 VGA connection, 1 DVI connection, 1 input/output dongle connection. Cables and Adapters: • Antenna/Cable
RF-connector input located on the hub Setup and Installation: • Installation and
Setup Poster Warranty • 3 years Limited |
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