Gigabyte GV-N470UD-13I manual

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    GV-N470UD-13I NVIDIA ® GeForce TM GTX 470 Rev. 101 © 2010 GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. ("GBT") GBT Macrovision corporation product notice: This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by U.S. patents and other intellectual property rig hts. Use of this copyright protection te[...]

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    - 2 - 1. ......................................................................................................................... 3 1.1. ..................................................................................................................... 3 1.2. .......................................................................................[...]

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    - 3 - 1.1. • NVIDIA ® GeForce TM GTX 470 • PCI Express 2.0 • 1280MB GDDR5 3D ( GV-N470-13I ) • DirectX ® 11 • NVIDIA ® SLI TM ( ) • 2 Dual-Link DVI-I • 1 mini HDMI • HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection ) 1.2. • - GV-N470UD-13I : 550 W - Intel ® Pentium ® 4 AMD Athlon TM XP class - 2 GB ( 4GB ) - CD-ROM DVD-ROM •[...]

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    - 4 - GV-N400 SLI DVI-I 1 DVI-I 2 Mini HDMI 2. 2.1. Mini HDMI DVI-I 1 DVI-I 2 LCD DVI HDMI LCD DVI Mini HDMI HDMI ( )[...]

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    - 5 - GV-N470UD-13I NVIDIA power Connect power from the system power supply to the GeForce card(s).Use the connection method for your particular graphics card. • GV-N470UD-13I: Connect two 6-pin PCI Express auxiliary power connectors coming from the computer power supply to the connectors on the top edge of the GeForce GTX 470 graphics card.[...]

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    - 6 - GV-N400 1. 2. 3. BIOS BIOS BIOS[...]

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    - 7 - 2.2. PCI Express x16 PCI Express x16 DVI-I mini HDMI DVI mini HDMI HDMI HDMI DVI-I DVI HDMI HDMI[...]

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    - 8 - GV-N400 NVIDIA ® SLI TM (Scalable Link Interface ) SLI / SLI PCI Express x16 / PCI Express x16 SLI SLI / SLI / SLI ( ) ( GV-N28-1GH-B) 3-Way SLI ( ) SLI 3-Way SLI ( GV-N28-1GH-B)[...]

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    - 9 - 3. 1. DirectX 9 ( ) 2. ( ) 3.1. 3.1.1. ( setup.exe) Windows XP DirectX MPEG Windows XP SP2 ( SP2) DirectX[...]

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    - 10 - GV-N400[...]

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    - 11 - 3.2.[...]

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    - 12 - GV-N400 3.3. NVIDIA NVIDIA NVIDIA PnP NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 GeForce GTX 470 NVIDIA Control Panel GeForce GTX 470 NVIDIA NVIDIA[...]

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    - 13 - NVIDIA   NVIDIA  3D   NVIDIA   [...]

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    - 14 - GV-N400  3D  3D ( ) 3D 3D Direct3D OpenGL 3D 3D 3D • Direct3D OpenGL 3D • (GPU) GPU GPU • 3D[...]

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    - 15 - • • /   Windows Vista NVIDIA[...]

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    - 16 - GV-N400 • CRT • • • • ( ) • ( )  CRT ( ) [...]

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    - 17 -  (Digital Vibrance )  NVIDIA  ( ) NVIDIA GPU CRT DVI ( )[...]

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    - 18 - GV-N400  NVIDIA nView nView • ( ) • ( ) • ( ) • ( ) ( ) • ( ) ( ) ( ) Windows XP (1) ( ) (2) ( ) 3D[...]

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    - 19 - (3) ( ) ( ) (4) ( ) ( ) ( ) Windows XP ( ) DVI-I D-Sub Display Model GV-N470UD-13I CRT ( ) +HDMI Yes CRT+DVI ( ) Yes DVI+HDMI Yes DVI+HDMI+CRT N o DVI +DVI Yes CRT+CRT ( ) Yes[...]

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    - 20 - GV-N400 4.  PCI Express x16    ( )   NVIDIA  <F8> [Windows ] <Enter>   / ( )[...]

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    - 21 - 5. 5.1. DOS BIOS 1. VGA BIOS A 2. MS-DOS MS-DOS 3. DOS A:> 4. BIOS A:> BIOS -s BIOS ( gvf19 -s n470UD13I.f1 ) <Enter> 5. BIOS A:> BIOS -p BIOS ( gvf19 -p n470UD13I. f2 ) <Enter> 6. VGA BIOS[...]

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    - 22 - GV-N400 5.2. GeForce GTX 470 Single Display Standard Modes 8bpp(256 ) 16bpp(65K ) 32bpp(16.7M ) (Hz) 320 x 200 60~75   320 x 240 60~75   400 x 300 60~75   480 x 360 60~75   512 x 384 60~75   640 x 400 (16:10) 60~75   640 x 480 60~240   720 x 480 60   720 x 576 50~60 ?[...]

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    - 23 - 8bpp(256 ) 16bpp(65K ) 32bpp(16.7M ) (Hz) 1600 x 1200 60~100  120  X 1920 x 1080 (16:9) 60~85  100  X 1920 x 1200 (16:10) 60~85  100  X 1920 x 1440 60~85  2048 x 1536 60~85  2560 x 1600 60  (Dual-Link) *[...]

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    - 24 - GV-N400 5.3. RoHS ( Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment, RoHS) WEEE ( Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, WEEE) RoHS ( ) RoHS WEEE 2002/96/EC WEEE  [...]

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    - 25 - ( ) ( ) (China RoHS)[...]

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    - 26 - GV-N400[...]

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    - 29 - 1. ( ) 2. 3. 3 4719331803056SN080500084640 010471933182318421SN0632032302 2008 05 2006 32 4. 2 5. 6. 7. ( 11 ) 8. 9. ( ) 10. 11. a. b. c. d. e. 12. 13. (V1.1) 2004.12.01 f. g. h. i. ( RAM VGA USB )[...]

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    - 30 - GV-N400 ~ 11:00~21:00 11:00~18:00( ) 8 2 3 (02)2511-9398 ~ 8:30 ~ 17:30 ( ) 136 6 (02)8227-6136 ~ 9:00 ~ 12:00 13:00 ~ 17:00 ( ) 215 (03)439-3025 ~ 11:00~21:00 11:00~18:00( ) 278 (03)572-5747 ~ 11:00~21:00 11:00~18:00( ) 81 (04)2301-5511 ~ 11:00~21:00 11:00~18:00( ) 51-1 (07)235-4340 http://service.gigabyte.tw/ ~ 11:00~21:00 11:00~18:00( ) 1[...]

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    - 31 - Contact Us      GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. Address: No.6, Bau Chiang Road, Hsin-Tien, Taipei 231, Taiwan 6 TEL: +886-2-8912-4000 FAX: +886-2-8912-4003 Tech. and Non-Tech. Support (Sales/Marketing) : http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw WEB address (English): http://www.gigabyte.com.tw WEB address (Chinese): http://www.gigabyte.tw ?[...]

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    - 32 - GV-N400 To submit a technical or non-technical (Sales/ Marketing) question, please link to : http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw Then select your language to enter the system. ( ) http://ggts.gigabyte.com.tw      GIGABYTE Global Service System      G.B.T. TECHNOLOGY TRADING GMBH - Germany WEB address : http://www.gigaby[...]