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ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 Graphics The VisionTek ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 Overclocked Edition graphics card enables you to experience the power of HD with 3D processing designed for ultimate gaming. Advance to the next generation of DirectX® 10.1 compatible HD game performance and lifelike realism with dual ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 GPUs working in exquisite precision to produce over 1 teraFLOPS of GPU compute power. And with ATI CrossFireX™ multiGPU upgradeability, you can scale your performance to greater heights. Watch the latest Bluray and HDDVD videos in full 1080p HD – and upscale beyond without placing huge demands on your CPU. Enjoy breakthrough efficiency with more processing performance per watt and energysaving features that can help save you money. HD Video Beyond 1080p The latest Bluray and HD DVD movies play smoothly at full 1080p and your CPU is unbound for other tasks thanks to the Unified Video Decoder. Enjoy ultimate image quality with resolutions upscaled beyond1080p for the most processingintensive content. And with a choice of digital outputs, you have more options when enjoying your digital entertainment. Unified Video Decoder – Enjoy the latest Bluray and HD DVD movies with a dedicated hardware video decoder that leaves your CPU unbound to do other tasks. Ultimate Image Quality – Performance that rivals high end HDDVD and Bluray players on displays with resolutions that exceed 1080p up to 2560x1600. Integrated Digital Outputs – Enjoy all your digital content the way you want to, with builtin HDMI and DVI output capability. Ultimate HD Gaming Advance to ultimate HD gaming with incredible performance, lifelike graphics and support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1. With dual ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 GPUs working in exquisite precision, you’re ready to dominate the battlefield from over one teraFLOPS of GPU compute power. And thanks to plugandplay ATI CrossFireX™ upgradeability, you can scale your performance to even greater heights. ATI Avivo™ HD Technology The ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 GPU features ATI Avivo™ HD technology with advanced audio, video processing, display and connectivity capabilities for high definition entertainment solutions Introducing a breakthrough for the playback of Bluray™ and HD DVD discs UVD (Unified Video Decoder) is a new HD video processor that provides hardware decoding of Bluray and HD DVD UVD is designed to enable a cool, quiet media PC with low GPU and CPU power requirements ATI Avivo™ HD technology includes fully integrated HD audio capabilities and supports playback of multichannel (5.1) audio streams. When combined with the integrated HDCP copy protection, ATI Avivo HD enables a onecable HDMI™ connectivity solution to high definition home theaters ATI Unified Video Decoder Technology – Connect your PC to your home theater and start watching HD content from your computer using new ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series graphics cards. The ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series is designed to decode and playback Bluray and HD DVD formats using dedicated hardware within the GPU. This technology, known as

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ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 Graphics The VisionTek ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 X2 Overclocked Edition graphics card enables you to experience the power of HD with 3D processing designed for ultimate gaming.  Advance to the next generation of DirectX® 10.1 compatible HD game performance and life­like realism with dual ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 GPUs working in exquisite precision to produce over 1 teraFLOPS of GPU compute power.  And with ATI CrossFireX™ multi­GPU upgradeability, you can scale your  performance to greater heights.  Watch the latest Blu­ray and HD­DVD videos in full 1080p HD – and upscale beyond ­ without placing huge demands on your CPU.  Enjoy breakthrough efficiency with more processing performance per watt and energy­saving features that can help save you money. 

HD Video Beyond 1080p The latest Blu­ray and HD DVD movies play smoothly at full 1080p and your CPU is unbound for other tasks thanks to the Unified Video Decoder. Enjoy ultimate image quality with resolutions upscaled beyond1080p for the most processing­intensive content. And with a choice of digital outputs, you have more options when enjoying your digital entertainment. •  Unified Video Decoder – Enjoy the latest Blu­ray and HD DVD movies with a dedicated hardware video 

decoder that leaves your CPU unbound to do other tasks. •  Ultimate Image Quality – Performance that rivals high end HD­DVD and Blu­ray players on displays with 

resolutions that exceed 1080p ­  up to 2560x1600. •  Integrated Digital Outputs – Enjoy all your digital content the way you want to, with built­in HDMI and 

DVI output capability. 

Ultimate HD Gaming Advance to ultimate HD gaming with incredible performance, life­like graphics and support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1. With dual ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 GPUs working in exquisite precision, you’re ready to dominate the battlefield from over one teraFLOPS of GPU compute power.  And thanks to plug­and­play ATI CrossFireX™ upgradeability, you can scale your performance to even greater heights. 

ATI Avivo™ HD Technology The ATI Radeon™ HD 3870 GPU features ATI Avivo™ HD technology with advanced audio, video processing, display and connectivity capabilities for high definition entertainment solutions �  Introducing a breakthrough for the playback of Blu­ray™ and HD DVD discs –  UVD (Unified Video Decoder) is a new HD video processor that provides hardware decoding of Blu­ray and HD DVD –  UVD is designed to enable a cool, quiet media PC with low GPU and CPU power requirements �  ATI Avivo™ HD technology includes fully integrated HD audio capabilities and supports playback of multi­channel (5.1) audio streams.  When combined with the integrated HDCP copy protection, ATI Avivo HD enables a one­cable HDMI™ connectivity solution to high definition home theaters 

ATI Unified Video Decoder Technology – Connect your PC to your home theater and start watching HD content from your computer using new ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series graphics cards. The ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series is designed to decode and playback Blu­ray and HD DVD formats using dedicated hardware within the GPU. This technology, known as

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UVD or Unified Video Decoding, is part of ATI Avivo™ HD, the new collection of technologies that are designed to improve the visual and connectivity capabilities of ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 Series GPUs. The new and improved UVD offloads the intensive process of HD video decoding and playback from the CPU while improving the visual quality. This means you can get smooth, high quality HD video playback at full HD 1080p from most entry level PCs, or free up the CPU for other tasks while you enjoy the movie. And with HDCP* built into the GPU, the new cards easily enable playback of HDCP protected content. 

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Key Features §  Dual HD3870 high­definition GPUs on single card for better performance, and failsafe GPU redundancy §  Ideal for high end gamer or workstation professional §  1GB high­speed GDDR3 memory §  ATI CrossfireX technology enabled on single card §  Internal CrossfireX technology enabled design, without additional flexible CrossfireXTM bridge §  4 Dual­link DVI outputs (2 active when CrossFire is enabled) §  Integrated audio multi­channel audio (5.1 surround) thru. DVI­HDMI dongle (optional) §  Quad Heatpipes Silent Fan §  Variable speed quiet, Dual 7.5cm fans controlled by temperature §  Massive copper Quad heatpipe driven cooling apparatus §  48 PCI­E lanes for switching – 16 lanes communicate with PCIE bus, 16 lanes to 2 GPUs respectively. §  Superscalar unified shader architecture §  320 x2  stream processing units §  256­bit memory x2 interface §  DirectX® 10.1 / Shader Model 4.1 support §  PCI Express® 2.0 support §  High­speed 128­bit HDR (High Dynamic Range) rendering §  Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti­Aliasing §  ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology §  Support for the ATI Radeon™ DVI to HDMI adapter §  Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for Blu­ray™ and HD DVD §  Dynamic geometry acceleration §  Game physics processing capability

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Configuration �  Dual Slot ­ Quad DVI­I, TV/ component HDTV (HDMI video and 5.1 audio supported through adapter) 

Supported Operating Systems �  Windows Vista (all versions) �  Windows XP �  Windows XP Media Center Edition 

Box Contents �  VisionTek ATI Radeon 1GB HD3870x2 Overclocked graphics card �  DVI­I to VGA adapter �  DVI to HDMI adapter (supports audio and video) �  Crossfire bridge interconnect �  S­Video/composite adapter �  Component HDTV connection 

System Requirements • Intel® Pentium® 4, Celeron, AMD™ Athlon™ 64, AMD™ Athlon XP™, Sempron or  compatible • PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard • 550 Watt or greater power supply with two 2x3‐pin PCIe® power connectors required (750 Watt and four 6‐pin connectors for dual ATI CrossFireX™) . 

•  Certified power supplies are recommended.  Refer to http://ati.amd.com/certifiedPSU for a list of Certified products • 1GB of system memory • Installation software requires CD‐ROM drive • DVD playback requires DVD drive • Blu‐ray™ / HD DVD playback requires Blu‐ray / HD DVD drive • For a complete ATI CrossFireX™ system an ATI CrossFireX Ready motherboard and one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per board (included) are required for a two card setup 

Additional System Requirements CrossFire™ technology works on AMD 790FX, AMD 790X, Intel 975X, P965, P35 and X38 motherboards as well as future Intel/AMD chipset based motherboards. 

Notes: • Only DVI 1 and DVI 3 can boot up system. • Power connector 1 and 2 connected to power supply unit simultaneously is recommended.  Only power connector 1 

or 2 connected to power supply unit can boot up the system but system will shut down randomly. • 6pin to two­4pin external power cable should be connected to different power supply cable simultaneously. 

or • use power supply 6pin cable (note, power supply cable is 6­wire, not 3­wire)