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HIS Excalibur 9550 VIVO Edition Video Card
Date: 
July 25, 2004 10:16 AM
Price: 
Unknown
Sponsors: 
Author: 
Editor: 
Score: 
7/10

HIS Excalibur 9550 VIVO Edition Video Card
Introduction

Introduction
Hightech Information Systems (HIS) has made quite a name for themselves over the last year or so as makers of quality video cards using ATi's graphics processors. HIS has also come out with a few of their own innovations, such as the iCooler and IceQ heatsinks on some of their cards. Today I'll be looking at the HIS Excalibur 9550 VIVO Edition video card. This card has 256MB of RAM and full video-in/video out capabilities. I'd like to thank Peter at HIS for providing the sample for this review.

Specifications
Before we get started, let's take a look at the Excalibur 9550's specifications, as reported on HIS' website:

Features At-a-Glance 
Features ATI's TRUFORM™2.0, SMARTSHADER™2.0 and SMOOTHVISION™2.1, and HYPER™Z III+ technologies 
SMARTSHAER™2.0 technology supports DirectX®9.0 and enables more complex and realistic lighting effects  
Sharper-looking 3D graphics with ATI SMOOTHVISION™2.1 technology  
TRUFORM™2.0 technology that makes the outlines of 3D characters and objects look smoother and more natural than ever before 
AGP 8X Support  
Dual display support with HYDRAVISION™  
Integrated TV-Out support up to 1024 x 768 resolution  
Integrated DVI-compliant TMDS transmitter  
Revolutionary New Video with ViVO Features 
High quality TV-OUT - The RAGE THEATER provides video encoder converts video image of computer to TV with high quality TV signals from graphics display modes ranging from 320x200 to 800x600 (depends on TV resolution) 
High quality Video-in - The RAGE THEATER's adaptive comb filter ensures that Composite and S-Video analog inputs in NTSC and PAL format are converted into high quality, low noise digital video for a sharper image 
FULLSTREAM Hardware accelerated de-blocking of Internet video streams  
Video VIDEOSHADER ™ deliver industry-leading DVD playback 

Specifications 
Graphics Processor
Powered by ATI RADEON™ 9550 Visual Processing Unit  
250MHz Graphics Engine Clock  
ATI RAGE THEATER High Quality TV and Video 
Memory Configuration 
64/128/256MB DDR memory  
128-bit memory interface  
400MHz memory clock 
RAMDAC 
Dual integrated 10-bit per channel palette DACs operating at up to 400MHz 
Bus Interface 
AGP 8X / 4X 
Connectors 
On board 15-pin VGA connector for CRTmonitor 
On board S-Video connector for TV-Out 
On board DVI-I connector for Digital Flat Panel 
External DVI-I to VGA adapter for Secondary CRT monitor 
Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays 
Drivers Included 
Windows®XP 
Windows®2000 
System Requirement 
Intel®Pentium®4/III/II, Celeron™, AMD®K6/Athlon™or compatible with AGP 8X / 4X slot 
128MB of system memory 
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive 
DVD playback requires DVD drive 
 
Specifications are subject to change without prior notice due to technology update.

Pretty standard stuff for a VIVO-capable graphics card. Let's move on to see what HIS has included in the package.

 

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