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Interface Cards
This chapter describes the graphics, network and SCSI devices that are
supplied with the
HP Kayak XM600 PC Workstation
.
Graphics Cards
HP Kayak XM600 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
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Fogging.
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Alpha blending
•
Anti-aliasing
•
Specular highlighting