User Manual

Welcome!

Thank you for purchasing an ASUS

Radeon™ 9600XT Graphics Card!

With this purchase, you join the elite crowd of graphics enthusiasts.

Radeon™ 9600XT visual processing unit (VPU), this

graphics card supports Microsoft

DirectX

9 programmable shaders to

deliver leading-edge graphics performance. The card provides outstanding

image quality for realistic video output when playing games or running

other graphical applications. With the ASUS

Radeon™ 9600XT, you will

definitely experience stunning, dynamic, realistic 3D graphics!

Key Features

• ATI

Radeon™ 9600XT VPU

• 4 full precision pipelines

This intelligent parallel architecture applies 16 textures per pass with full

floating-point data precision, producing high-quality images at frame rates

• SMARTSHADER™ provides hardware-accelerated support for DirectX® 9.0

programmable vertex and pixel shaders to enable realistic texture and lighting

effects

• SMOOTHVISION™ generates the sharpest and clearest images through full

scene anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering modes

• HYDRAVISION™ provides flexible and user-friendly interface for multiple display

settings

• FULLSTREAM™ removes blocky artifacts from streaming Internet video

• VIDEO IMMERSION™ supports digital and high-definition video

• Built-in 128MB Double Data Rate frame buffer provides more resolutions and

color depths of up to 2048x1536 @ 85Hz

• AGP 8X support maximizes the 2.1GB/s AGP 8X bandwidth for more realistic

graphics

• ASUS SmartDoctor provides power and fan monitoring, memory and chipset

overheating protection, and dynamic overclocking feature

• ASUS GameFace allows real-time video/audio communication for enhanced

interactive gaming and point-to-point conferencing

• ASUS VideoSecurity allows setting up a customized security system

• High-quality TV output for big screen gaming or presentations

• Video input for real time video capture, high quality video compression, and

video editing

• DVI output for easy connectivity to digital flat panel displays

• Supports Microsoft

DirectX

9.0 and OpenGL

1.4