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| Diamond's Viper X1900 XTX Diamond Multimedia announced it has begun shipping the Viper X1900 XTX, which has tested out as the fast graphics card with a blazing 90 nm clock speed and unrivaled video quality. The X1900 features DirectX9, which brings three times the shader power to applications such as 3D games and fully supports the state-of-the-art Shader Model 3.0 architecture. The X1900 is also equipped with ATI's Avivo video and display platform, which enables a High-Definition visual experience, and allows for universal connectivity to various digital devices, including home theater systems, LCD monitors, HDTVs, projectors and notebooks. With resolution as high as 2560 x 1600, the X1900 is powerful enough to drive two LCD displays while maintaining stunning clarity. Avivo offers sharper display for video and photos compared with conventional cards, as well as 'universal display connectivity' - which eliminates the long-standing barrier of being able to display PC graphics on a variety of consumer electronics devices, including big-screen televisions. The Viper X1900 XTX uses the Radeon X1900 GPU, with a 256MB interface using the PCI Express data bus. The Radeon's Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine will handle up to 128 threads at once, as well as up to 48 simultaneous shader processors, featuring a revolutionary 3-to-1 shader-to-texture ratio. The connectors included are DVI, VGA, TV-Out/HDTV and VIVO. Minimum system requirements for the card are an Intel Pentium 4 of AMD Athlon 64 FX CPU running at a minimum of 2.4 GHz, PCIE slot, 128MB system RAM, 200MB available hard disk space, a CD- or DVD-ROM drive, and an ATX 2.0 420 Watt power supply or higher. Also needed is a Super VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor. The X1900 will run under Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Windows XP 64 and Windows XP Media Center environments. The Viper X1900 also comes with extensive software, including the Catalyst Control Center, the award-winning feature-rich 3D software application. Catalyst automatically configures optimal settings for your system, and is packed with features that go far beyond traditional driver configuration software. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Game News :: home page |