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ATI CrossFireX
TM
Technology & Hybrid Graphics
®
Technology Support
Hybrid Graphics
®
Technology
The Hybrid Graphics
®
technology provides significant display performance boost
to AMD-based systems by inserting the external PCI Express graphics card and
enabling both the discrete GPU and the 790GX graphics core to render simultaneously
in Hybrid CrossFire
®
mode.
1. Insert a graphics card (which can be used for Hybrid Graphics
®
technology, such as
HD3400 series) into the PCIE16X_1 slot.
Make sure that the card is properly seated on the slot.
2. For Hybrid Graphics
®
, if display by PCI-E, you must enter the BIOS, set the
Surround View in Advanced Chipset Setup to PCI-E. Then press F10 to save the
configuration and exit the BIOS. After entering OS, enter Catalyst Control Center to
enable CrossFire.
Note: SurroundView
TM
provides the power and convenience of multiadapter,
multimonitor support for computers that use a PCI-E based graphics
card in conjunction with ATI integrated graphic processors. And there
are two options: Disabled and PCI-E.
If SurroundView
TM
set to Disabled, and Init Display First set to
OnBoard, SurroundView
TM
will be Enabled by Catalyst Control Center
based on cancel the Enable CrossFire
TM
option.
Follow the steps below to start the Hybrid Graphics
®
technology.