AMD & Windows Vista® For Home

AMD and Windows Vista™ – a combination that just might change the way you work and play. Look for PCs powered by AMD to know you’re getting the ultimate experience for Windows Vista.

Bring Memories to Life
Capture, edit, and view crystal-clear photos and video with your Windows Vista™ PC, enhanced with ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology for high quality color and images, smooth HD video playback, and universal display and device connectivity. Keep your precious memories secure with Enhanced Virus Protection and free online storage with AMD LIVE! Media Vault powered by Streamload™.

Entertainment Anywhere
Your PC is now in HD. With the ATI TV Wonder™ Digital Cable Tuner and Windows Media Center you can now record premium HD content from digital cable channels such as HBO and ESPN on your PC. Connect to the big screen with ATI Radeon HD 3000 series graphics with support for HDMI with 5.1 surround sound and UVD‡ for playback of HD-DVD and Blu-ray™ discs. Be entertained anywhere – AMD LIVE! PCs with dual-core processors and the AMD LIVE! Entertainment Suite can get your media to you practically anywhere.



Get into the Game
The all new ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series of GPUs enable you to experience the power of HD with graphics processing designed for how you work and play. Advance to the next generation of HD game performance and life-like realism thanks to DirectX® 10.1, coming soon only to Windows Vista, and plug-and-play ATI CrossFire™ ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU upgradeability. Megatask with the AMD Quad FX platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) Architecture, built for the most demanding multi-threaded applications. Get into the game at AMD GAME!

Groove to your Music
Listen to your music, not your PC. AMD Cool‘n’Quiet™ and PowerNow!™ technologies, which are integrated seamlessly with Windows Vista, intelligently provide performance-on-demand so your PC doesn’t generate excessive heat and noise. Windows Vista® with Windows Media Player 11 was built to handle music and video collections of nearly every size, and with the power of AMD behind it, the music doesn’t have to stop. Plus, with AMD LIVE! On Demand powered by Orb you can access the music library on your PC from any network connected device.



Stay Connected
With industry-leading WLAN solutions from AMD Better by Design partners, you can get higher throughput, better range, and outstanding power efficiency, so you can go further, download faster, and do it longer. Mobile computing is even easier in Windows Vista with Windows Mobility Center, which puts the most frequently used mobile PC settings in a single, easy-to-find location.

Be Productive
With Windows Vista’s cutting-edge search technology and AMD’s high-performance dual-core processing and graphics technologies, you can quickly find what you need across your desktop, hard drive and the Internet, and share it with the people who need it. Windows Aero, the glass-like, translucent user interface in Windows Vista, and Flip 3D make it easier to switch back and forth between email, IM, and other applications. And to ensure that all this multi-tasking won’t slow you down, AMD’s dual-core processors give you all the power you need, even for the most demanding applications.



* Enhanced Virus Protection (EVP) is only enabled by certain operating systems including the current versions of Microsoft® Windows®, Linux, Solaris and BSD Unix. After properly installing the appropriate operating system release, users must enable the protection of their applications and associated files from buffer overrun attacks. Consult your OS documentation for information on enabling EVP. Contact your application software vendor for information regarding use of the application in conjunction with EVP. AMD strongly recommend that users continue to use third party anti-virus software as part of their security strategy.
‡ UVD is not available on the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series.
Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.

 
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