HP KAYAK XU800 Interface Cards, Matrox Millennium G250 Graphics Card, •Fogging, Graphics Cards, •ELSA Synergy™, •Anti-aliasing, •Alpha blending, •3Dlabs Oxygen GVX1

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Interface Cards

This chapter describes the graphics and network devices that are supplied with the PC Workstation.

Graphics Cards

HP Kayak XU800 PC Workstation models are supplied with a graphics card. This graphics card is one of the following, depending on the PC Workstation model:

•Matrox Millennium G250.

•Matrox Millennium G400.

•3Dlabs Oxygen GVX1.

•ELSA Synergy™ II.

Matrox Millennium G250 Graphics Card

The Matrox Millennium G250 graphics card has a total of 8 MB of installed video memory, which can be upgraded to a maximum of 16 MB.

The Matrox Millennium G250 on-board MGA G-250 processor communicates directly with the Pentium II processor along the AGP 2X bus. The controller can be characterized as follows:

•Supports full AGP 2X mode

•Graphics controller in 272-pin BGA (Ball Grid Array) package

•Integrated 64-bit, 250 MHz RAMDAC

•New, high-performance triangle setup engine to off-load system CPU

•Improved 3D drawing engine supports:

•Bilinear texture filtering

•Fogging.

•Alpha blending

•Anti-aliasing

•Specular highlighting

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