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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).
