Diamond Radeon X550 / 256MB DDR2 / PCI Express / DVI / VGA / TV-Out / Video CardItem#: D10-2058  |  Model#: X550PCIE256SB

Enhance Your Performance
With the Stealth Express X550
Get the most from your gaming, digital photography, video editing and web surfing experiences with the Stealth® X550, an affordable graphics upgrade featuring ATI’s industry-leading performance, technology and support. The Stealth X550 fully supports the PCI Express® bus, the newest PC industry standard for delivering maximum real-time performance for your graphics-intensive software applications.

Before you buy - make sure your motherboard is compatible with this video card. For example, PCI Express video cards won't work with motherboards designed only for AGP or PCI video cards, and vice versa. Please read the specifications carefully or call us for expert advice.

Outstanding Gaming Experience
With the Stealth X550, your computer games come to life. The Stealth X550 supports today's top game titles and combines ATI's SmartShader and SmoothVision technologies to deliver incredible processing power and stunning 3D image quality. The Stealth X550 also fully supports Microsoft¨ DirectX¨ 9, ensuring that games look and play brilliantly, especially in high-definition.

Superior Visual Output
The Stealth X550 allows you to get the most from your digital still and video cameras, enabling you to see the true brilliance of your creativity, whether you are editing a video or previewing a photo before printing. The Stealth X550 pushes high-end monitors to their full capacity and maximizes the visual display capabilities of your digital input devices.

Radeon X550 Radeon X550 graphics technology fully supports PCI Express® design specifications – the new standard for PCs. With Radeon X600 graphics you have the ability to send and receive data simultaneously at twice the speed of current AGP 8X solutions.

SMARTSHADER™ 2.1 Is the second generation of cinematic shader technology from ATI, allowing users to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications.

CATALYST™ ATI’s all-new CATALYST™ Control Center goes far beyond traditional driver configuration software—it’s a feature-rich and stable 3D acceleration control application that puts you in complete command of your ATI visual processing unit

FULLSTREAM™ The latest advancement in video processing technology, is a hardware accelerated filtering method that improves the performance and visual quality of streaming video playback.

PCI Express Support PCI Express is a new Intel bus architecture that doubles the bandwidth of the AGP 8X bus, delivering over 4 GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

A Closer Look


Features

• HyperZ III™
  The latest generation of ATI's innovative HYPER Z™ bandwidth saving technology, HYPER Z III+ plays a pivotal role in allowing RADEON 9800 series and RADEON 9600 series products to reach unprecedented levels of rendering performance. It builds on earlier versions of the technology by adding a more flexible Z-buffer cache that is optimized for the rendering of dynamic real-time shadows. Shadows play a key role in achieving realistic and immersive virtual environments, and will be used extensively in upcoming 3D game titles.
• VIDEOSHADER™
  RADEON™ 9700 VPU continues to provide industry-leading video playback with VIDEOSHADER™ technology: a seamless integration of pixel shaders with video. The RADEON™ 9700 VPU also offers FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology that removes blocky artifacts (noise removal filtering) for captured video and provides sharper image quality.
• SMARTSHADER™ 2.0
  SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology allows users to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications: fastest speeds.
• SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1
  Technology provides new levels of image quality using state-of-the-art Anti-Aliasing (AA) and Anisotropic Filtering (AF) techniques.
• VIDEOSOAP™
  VideoSoap™ provides advanced filtering to reduce speckling, improve sharpness and smooth blurry motion to provide high quality personal video recordings

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon, 64 FX CPU
  
• CPU running at 2.4 GHz or higher
  
• 420 Watt power supply or higher
  
• Super VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor
  
• Microsoft Windows® XP, 2000, MCE
  
• PCI Express X16 compliant slot
  
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
  
• 64MB system RAM
  
• 150MB available hard disk space