User`s manual

7ASUS V3000 Series User’s Manual

I. Introduction

Features

Thank you for purchasing an ASUS V3000 Series Graphics & Video Accelerator.

With the ST/nVidia RIVA 128™/128ZX™ built-in, the ASUS V3000 Series 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.

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 ST/nVidia RIVA 128™/128ZX™ 128-bit 3D Multimedia Accelerator

• User-friendly Installation for Windows 95/98.

• Acceleration for Windows 95/98 APIs, including Direct3D, DirectDraw (+ VPE),

and OpenGL-ICD

• Acceleration for Windows NT APIs, including Direct3D, DirectDraw, and

OpenGL-ICD

• Massive array of floating point Geometry Processing Units

• 128-bit 2D/GUI/DirectDraw Acceleration

• Windows 95/98 Video for Windows video capture driver included

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

• X and Y up and down video scaling

• Excellent performance at high resolutions and color depths

• VESA VBE 3.0 Compliant

AGP-V3000, AGP-V3000/TV, and 3DP-V3000:

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

• 230MHz Palette-DAC

• AGP 1.0 or PCI 2.1 Bus Interface

• AGP 1X

AGP-V3000ZX and AGP-V3000ZXTV:

• 8MB 64-bit 100MHz SDRAM frame buffer interface with 1.6GB/s bus bandwidth

(for AGP-V3000ZX)

• 8MB 128-bit 100MHz SGRAM frame buffer interface with 1.6GB/s bus bandwidth

(for AGP-V3000ZXTV)

• 250MHz Palette-DAC

• AGP 2.0 Bus Interface

• AGP 2X

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.