IBM PC 300GL manual Video Subsystem

•Support for up to five-meter cable length from host to hub or hub to hub

•Guaranteed bandwidth and low latencies appropriate for specific devices

•Wide range of packet sizes

•Limited power to hubs

For information on the connector pin assignment for the USB interface, see “USB port connectors” on page 44.

Video Subsystem

The PC 300GL personal computer types 6563, 6564, and 6574 ad PC 300PL personal computer type 6565 come with one of the following graphic solutions:

1.S3 Savage4 Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) 4X adapter with 8 MB 125 MHz SDRAM and a 15-pin VGA connector

2.S3 Savage4 Extreme AGP4X adapter with 16 MB 166 MHz SGRAM, a DVI-connector, and a 15-pin VGA converter.

The Savage4 graphics accelerator supports the following features:

•128-bit 2D graphics engine

•High-performance 2D/3D video accelerator

•3D rendering

•Motion video architecture

•High-speed memory bus

•Flat-panel monitor support

•ACPI and PCI power management

•PCI 2.2 bus support, including bus mastering

•300 MHz RAMDAC with gamma correction

•Serial bus and flash ROM support

•Hardware and BIOS support for VESA timing and DDC monitor communications

•2.5 V core with 3.3V/5V tolerant I/O

3.S3 Diamond AGP 4X adapter with 32 MB 143 MHz SDRAM with a DVI-I connector and, on some models, TV outlet on a daughter card.

The S3 Diamond graphics accelerator supports the following features:

•128-bit 3D graphics engine

•Two texture-mapped, lit pixels-per-clock cycle

•Single-pass multi-texturing

•32-bit Z/stencil buffer

•Anti-aliasing: full scene, order independent

•Up to 2048 x 1536 resolution

•30 frames per second (fps) full screen DVD playback

•National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) digital output (optional)

•Phase Alternate Line (PAL) digital output (optional)

•DVI-I interface

•Bidirectional Media Port and CCIR-656 video capture port (optional)

8PC 300 GL and 300 PL