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Matrox mga millennium graphics controller board – HP Vectra VL 5/xxx Series 5 User Manual

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3 Interface Devices and Mass-Storage Drives

Matrox MGA Millennium Graphics Controller Board

Matrox MGA Millennium Graphics Controller Board

All models of the HP Vectra XA 5/xxx PC and a few models of the
HP Vectra VL 5/xxx Series 5 PC are supplied with a Matrox MGA
Millennium PCI graphics controller on a board fitted in a PCI accessory slot.
The on-board MGA-2064W processor communicates with the Pentium
processor along the PCI bus. The controller can be characterized as follows:

100% hardware- and BIOS-compatible with IBM

®

VGA display standard

64-bit video memory access

Hardware acceleration of graphical user interface (GUI) operations

Support for up to 8 MB Window RAM (WRAM) at 50 ns

Integrated 24-bit, 220 MHz RAMDAC

Pixel clock maximum frequency of 135 MHz

Green power saving features

Standard and Enhanced Video Graphics Array (VGA) modes

Acceleration for 3D, playback, MPEG (when an optional upgrade module
from Matrox is fitted), continuous interpolation on X, replication on Y

DDC 2B compliant.

VESA pass-through connector

Media XL connector

Matrox VESA connector

Graphics processor chips

2 MB memory chips

Top half of upgrade socket

Bottom half of upgrade socket

Configuration switches

Top and bottom halves of the

upgrade socket. (For the

installation of a video memory

upgrade module or the Matrox

MPEG module).

Configuration switches. (Set to

their bottom position for

normal operation).