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 HIS
Radeon X1550 iFan Video Card
HIS X1550 delivers all the high-end graphics features: supports the DirectX
9.0c, OpenGL 2.0 and Shader Model 3.0, and for anti-aliasing with HDR. Avivo™
engine is also included for encoding/decoding the latest video formats, e.g.
MPEG-4, MPEG2, DivX, and H.264…etc.
Prepare your PC with a graphics card that delivers a premium Windows Vista™
experience for playing games, watching movies and viewing pictures. HIS X1550
provides excellent image quality for all gaming, visual and interactive applications.
The PCI versions are specially designed for upgrade and corporate users to provide
Low Profile and Dual Link DVI-I solutions, allowing connection to multiple monitors
and improving visual applications.
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"BEFORE YOU BUY"
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Knowledge
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.
ESSENTIAL SPECS:
• Interface Type: PCI
• Maximum Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (Digital)
• Video Memory: 256MB DDR2
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HIS Radeon X1550 VPU Features
- RV515 80nm process
- Vertex and Pixel Shader 3.0
- Dynamic Branching and Flow Control
- High Dymanic Range rendering
- All stage Trilinear (16X) Anisotropic Filtering
- Full (HQ) Anisotropic Filtering
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode
- 6X Adaptive AA
- 12-tap error-free Dynamic Soft Shadows
- High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k)
- H.264 Accelerated
- Dual-Link DVI
- DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® supported
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Windows
Vista Ready
Windows Vista is the first operating system to require a GPU (Graphics Processing
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A Closer Look
Minimum System Requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4/III, Celeron™, AMD™Duron™/Athlon™/Athlon™
XP, or compatible with 3.3v PCI slot.
- 256MB of system memory (1GB+ for Windows Vista).
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
- DVD playback requires DVD drive on PCs with an Intel® Pentium® III
processor (or equivalent) and 256MB of system memory.
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so easy, a 14 year old can install it
Reviewer:
SETH on
Jun 25, 2009
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when i bought a 32inch LCD flatscreen, i wanted to hook it up to my computer, all i had was one VGA port, no DVI or S-video. so i knew i needed a video card. I did some research about video cards and i found this one to be the best for the money. it was a breeze to hook up and install, all i needed was a DVI to HDMI cable, which was 20 bucks for a 25 foot cord. it was easy even for a 14 year old like me, so if your planning to hook up a tv to your computer, i definately recommend this card. |
great for small form factor pc
Reviewer:
mike on
May 27, 2009
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i can now play dvds without constant pauses and the video matches the audio. i'm not a big gamer, but the games i do play now play without problems. as always, super fast delivery. thanks. |
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My old card which is a ATI Radeon 9250 256mb (note a much older card) plays my existing games with much better looking graphics and performance. I was shocked and very disappointed at the performance of the x1550 card. Even my screen savers were jittery. My system requirements are way above minimum. I tried everything to resolve the problems and could not. I am now back to using my old card. |
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I purchased 2 for a multi monitor set-up (4 monitors, 2 per card) I've used other cards for the same purpose in the past, but none of them have worked this well. My displays are fast and crystal clear. I did my homework, you won't find a better video card in this price range. The onboard ram could be higher, but as mentioned, they work fine as is. The fans are super quiet. You won't even know that they are running. Very solid product. |
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Seaner71 on
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Shipped Fast took five days to get to Montana on UPS ground, not bad. It does great for me I do a lot of music and video so i have two TB in my computer for music and video. But i also do alot of Gaming so i wanted the best i could afford for my heavily Modded Dell Dimension 2350. This gives me full everything in Halo, Madden 07 is on medium/High. Crysis low/Medium, and battle field 2 Medium, Fable maxed. So it's not bad, fast card, overclocked with ATI tool to 580 Core, 810 memory.
System Specs
. Pentium 4 2.00ghz 400FSB 512L2
. 1gb DDR 2700 RAM
. 2 x 4gb flash drive for eBooster(adds Pagefile for the hardrives to be accessed faster)
. Turtle Beach 5.1 Sound Card
. HIS RAdeon X1550 iFan
. Modded into a Thermaltake Soprano RS 101 case
. 550 watt Thermaltake PSU
. 2 x 1TB SATA drives (PCI SATA card)
. 2 x 80gb IDE(operating, docs)
. 120gb USB BAck up drive
card blows my 9250 out of the water, it's ony 64 bit, but the visiontek 128bit X1300's are $130 so this was beter |
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What You Should Know
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DVI: Digital
Visual Interface! What Is It? Monitors come supporting different video connector technologies:
VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI, or combinations. Not every monitor
supports these, so check the specifications carefully before making your
selection.
The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is the
most popular high-quality digital connection for monitors (though HDMI is
quickly becoming its equal in popularity). DVI is a video interface
standard designed to maximize the visual quality of digital display devices
such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors. It was
developed by an industry consortium, the Digital Display Working Group (DDWG).
It is designed for carrying uncompressed digital video data to a compatible
monitor or projector, and is partially compatible with the High-Definition
Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard in digital mode (DVI-D).
DVI represents a major improvement in image quality over the older VGA
standard.
The DVI interface uses a digital protocol
in which the desired illumination of pixels is transmitted as binary data.
When the display is driven at its native resolution, it will read each
number and apply that brightness to the appropriate pixel. In this way, each
pixel in the output buffer of the source device corresponds directly to one
pixel in the display device, whereas with an analog signal the appearance of
each pixel may be affected by its adjacent pixels as well as by electrical
noise and other forms of analog distortion.
Previous standards such as the analog VGA were designed for CRT-based
devices and thus did not use discrete time display addressing. As the analog
source transmits each horizontal line of the image, it varies its output
voltage to represent the desired brightness. In a CRT device, this is used
to vary the intensity of the scanning beam as it moves across the screen.
The two types of DVI interfaces are Single
Link and Dual Link. Following are the features and benefits of each:
Single Link - The Single Link interface is limited to a maximum pixel
clock of 165 Hz. It uses four (4) twisted pairs of wires (one each of Red,
Green, Blue and Clock). Maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 at 60Hz.
Dual Link - The Dual Link interface is most common for today’s modern
LCD monitors. It provides three times as many pixels as the Single Link
interface. And its maximum clock may exceed 165 Hz. Dual Link uses six (6)
twisted pairs wires with two (2) each for Red, Green, and Blue, as well as a
pair for Clock. Dual Link’s maximum resolution is 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz. When
you use the Dual Link Interface you can use a longer cable because of its
higher bandwidth. Dual Link also provides HDCP support, which is required
for Blu-Ray playback.
If your Computer supports DVI ports, but
the Monitor does not, then a DVI to VGA adaptor is available at low cost to
solve this. Or inversely, if the Computer output is only VGA, and the
Monitor supports DVI, adaptors are available for this as well.
For our selection of Monitor Adaptors click here » |
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Dual Monitor
Technology
Few PC users have ever experienced the huge productivity boost that comes
from using multiple monitors on the same PC. Ironically, many of
today's PC have the capability already installed, and Windows (since 2000)
natively supports dual monitors. Configuring dual monitors is so easy: just use
the second video port (if there are two separate ports installed), or add a
second video card or better yet, a video card that has dual DVI ports.
Then plug in your second monitor, change a couple of simple Windows settings,
and you have double the Windows Desktop. This lets you have your
spreadsheet and email visible at the same time, or PowerPoint and Photoshop.
The combinations are endless. And since most of the overhead is
handled by the video card, there is little significant impact (if any) on
system performance. Dual Monitors is one of the simplest, yet most
amazing productivity boosters you can add to your PC! Optionally, you can use a dual monitor stand and recover your workspace in the process!
Click Here To Find Video Cards - Look For Dual DVI/Dual Monitor Ready
Cards »
Click Here For Dual Monitor Stands »
Click Here For Great Deals On A 2nd Monitor » |
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Advanced PC Build-It-Yourself Guide
Not too long ago one had to be eligible for the Genius IQ Club (Mensa)
in order to build a computer. That is no longer the case. Today’s computer
manufacturers have made it much easier for the enterprising do-it-yourselfer
to create a great system.
Click Here To Learn More »
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12 Easy Steps to Installing a PCI Adapter
Card
The simple task of installing a PCI adapter card into a desktop computer
takes only a few minutes. All you need to complete the job is our handy
step-by-step, photo-illustrated guide and a Philips screwdriver. Please
note that there are many PCI adapters that can be installed in your computer
system. Therefore, this brief guide only covers the physical installation
of the card itself. To install peripheral attachments you will need to consult
the installation directions that come with the adapter card. |
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Express - Delivering Dramatically Improved Graphics
Doubling the bandwidth of the AGP 8X graphics bus, the new PCI Express represents
the most profound change to desktop architecture in nearly a decade. PCI
Express replaces AGP, allowing much larger amounts of data to move between
the graphics card and the CPU, and will soon replace PCI expansion slots
as well. The PCI standard allows for a 32-bit bus with a maximum throughput
of 133MB/s. By contrast, PCI Express will run at 2.5GHz. PCI Express is
a two-way serial connection that carries data in packets along two pairs
of point-to-point data lines, compared to the single parallel data bus of
traditional PCI. Gamers will benefit from an incredible upgrade in video
quality with PCI Express, because it will allow for more powerful video
cards, inspiring developers to create more realistic environments that will
make games come alive with astonishingly lifelike colors and images. Video
enthusiasts will also benefit because PCI Express will accommodate higher-quality
video throughput (amount of data you can send per second). As network television
moves over to HDTV broadcasts, PCI Express positions the PC platform for
integration into the living room, while also allowing for HD video editing
and other bandwidth-intensive tasks. PCI Express is compatible with existing
PCI drivers and software operating systems and is designed to co-exist with
current PCI hardware. |
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Video Card Designs
Today's high performance video cards
enable amazing graphics, and frequently come emblazoned with high-impact
graphics, or in brilliant colors. These help to enhance the appeal of
the card. However, from time to time, manufacturers do change these
designs and colors, but this has no effect on the features, specifications,
or performance of the specific video card model, and will usually retain the
same manufacturer's model and part number. The images displayed for a
video card are based upon the sample provided by the manufacturer, and the
specific visual design you receive may vary. So remember, while the
card may look cool, it's the specs that matter! |
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Motherboard Support the Video Card You're Purchasing? Here's the Answer...
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.
Close-Up:
PCI, AGP, and PCI-E (PCI Express)
Check
your motherboard and make sure you are purchasing the correct cardbus
type.
There are 3 types of cardbus slots currently available:
PCI, AGP, and PCI Express (PCIe 2.0 is compatible with PCIe slot)
PCI
- The most widely used I/O bus, it provides a shared data path between
the CPU and peripheral controllers, such as network, display, SCSI and
RAID cards. Though limited in terms of performance, they are considered
the best value when you upgrade your video capabilities on a PC. The PCI
interface can be found and used in nearly any motherboard.
Click
here to view our selection of PCI Cards
AGP
- The AGP slot is next in line of higher graphic performance. It was designed
especially for the throughput demands of 3-D graphics. It offers up to
8x improvement over a PCI card, is 32 bits wide and runs at 66 MHz. It
provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one
AGP slot is on the motherboard. The motherboard must be equipped with
an AGP bus slot for an AGP card to be compatible.(AGP 1x provided a data
transfer rate of 264 Mbytes/sec. AGP 2x is 528 Mbytes/sec. AGP 4x is 1
Gbyte/sec. AGP 8x is 2 Gbytes/sec.)
Click
here to view our selection of AGP Cards
PCI
Express - PCI Express is the newest technology that
is superior to both PCI and AGP, in terms of graphic performance. It offers
performance as much as 4x faster than the fastest AGP 8X slot. PCI Express
connections can support fast data transfer rates, which can be used to
connect high-speed devices such as high-end video cards. The slots come
in different variations and speeds, such as x1, x4, x8, and x16. Presently,
most high-end motherboards meant for design, video production, or gaming
come with PCI express slots. To use a PCI Express card, your computer
must have at least one available PCI Express slot.
Click
here to view our selection of PCI Express Cards
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- HIS Radeon X1550 iFan Video Card
- Installation Disk
- HDTV Cable
- S-Video Cable
- DVI to VGA Adapter
Contents of package may vary from those pictured and stated here,
due to changes in manufacturer's specifications or merchandising.
Please check the product information carefully, items not included
may no longer be required.
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HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
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HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
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Mfg Part No:
H155F256EDNP
UPC No:
4895139000504
Box Size:
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Shipping Weight:
.9500 pound(s)
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Limited Warranty: A full text version of the limited warranty
may be obtained by mailing a self addressed, stamped envelope to the
address below and requesting the warranty for item number:
H231-7260
TigerDirect.com
Warranty Information
7795 W. Flagler St. Suite 35
Miami, FL. 33144
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