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lol dats what i need..haha ive always wanted to buy one of them, i think that i can finally oc with a bfh in my case!

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Very... very good, congrats spooked.
Here's another some more for ya:
MIPS: Million Instructions Per Second
MFLOPS: (Mega)Floating-point operations per second (1 million FLOPS)
FPU: Floating Point Unit
TB: Terabyte (1024Gb)

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YiffyGriffy

Actually the correct termonology is
Uppercase M for Mega
Uppercase G for Giga
and so forth.
Hz is of course hertz (cycles per second)
Also good to remember that lowercase b is used for bits, as in 768Kbps is 768 Kilabits per second (average ADSL speed) and upper case B is used for Bytes, 1024MB is 1024 MegaBytes.

Didn't see these (though I only skimmed through)
LAN - Local Area Network
TCP/IP - Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
DoS - Denial of Service
SDSL - Synchronus Digital Service Line
ADSL - Asynchronus Digital Service Line
Microns - symbol is µ (Alt+0181), also used to describe a processor's manufacturing process (.09 micron = 90 nanometer)
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
FPU - Floating Point Unit

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Spread Spectrum?

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MrSmiley

Acctually, it is also the co-efficent of friction mew. figured I would point that out I like the mew symbol µ µ µ

SpookedJunglist

i didnt add Kbps for the simple fact that we dont overclock our modems do we

i started this to help out the noobs... its turned into the complete guide of computer acronyms,,, or not so complete
instead of Overclocking acronyms for dummies

but still thanks for the input
reps your way

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Not according to the lecturers at Loughborough, we were told on the first day almost its mHz and gHz. So correct me if I'm wrong, but your wrong?

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I in turn will define those with the shortest possible.

AA: Anti Aliasing (Blurring or smoothing of edges effectively reducing "Jaggies"
in straight lines)

ADSL: Asynchronus Digital Service Line (Common DSL Service)

AF: Anisotropic Filtering (GPU function that removes the shimering effect of hi-res textures found in 3d gaming

AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port (The slot u plug ur graphics card into)

AGP FAST WRITE: Allows The Video Card To Send Data Directly To The Cpu Skipping Your RAM And Provides a Small Performance Boost

ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit

API: Application Programming Interface

AS5: Arctic Silver 5 (thermal compound used to mate a heatsink with the processor)

ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment (the standard for defining internal transfer speed ex: ata133 = 133MBps.

ATAPI : Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface (EIDE)(usually for optical drives, runs at 33mBps.)

BFH: Big F***ing Hammer (thanks Crash )

BGA: Ball Grid Array (type of ram chip used on DDR2 and newer video cards.)

BIOS: Basic Input Output System (the thing u use to overclock ur computer)

BSOD: Blue Screen Of Death (when u see this, you hate windows. it is bad)

CAS: Column Access Strobe or Column Address Strobe (first timing number on ram X-z-z-z. lower is better. 2=lowest)

CFM: Cubic Feet per Minute (movement of air on fans, higher=better=louder)

CORE CLOCK SPEED: Speed at which a processor opperates (faster=more performance=hotter)

CMOS: Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (that battery thing on your motherboard)

CPU: Central Processing Unit A.K.A. Processor or proc (if u dont know this, ROFL)

CRT: Cathode Ray Tube (the TUBE style TV or Monitor)

CS: Counter strike (the multiplayer shooter everyone plays, version 1.6, or source)

D3D: Direct3D (a graphics mode which enables better frame rates for newer games during over OpenGL, causes lag in older games)

DDR: Double data rate (Type of memory that sends 2 sets of information per clock cycle)

DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module (the skinny slots next to your cpu are DIMM slots, thses are for RAM)

DMA: Direct Memory Access (i have no clue, no one uses this anymore)

DOS: Disk Operating System (that old command line microsft made)

DPI: Dots Per Inch (found on printers, the more, the better your pictures come out)

DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory (Current type of ram.)

DVI: Digital Video Interface (the digital connection for Lcd's, it is the white connector found in your video card, and your lcd)

EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (see ATAPI)

FAT: File Allocation Table (old old old school, organizes files on a disk, see NTFS)

FDD: Floppy Disc Drive (self exp)

FPU: Floating Point Unit (a type of benchmark)

FSAA: Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing (see AA)

FSB: Front Side Bus (the speed of which the components inside your computer communicate at)

GB: Gigabyte 1024 Megabytes (self exp)

GHz: one billion clock cycles per second (self exp)

GPU: Graphics Processing unit (the chip on yoru graphics card)

GUI: Graphical User Interface (pronoucned gooo-eeee-why)

HD: Hard Drive (duh)

HDD: Hard Disc Drive (see above)

HL2: Half Life 2 (game using source engine by valve)

HSF: Heat Sink Fan (that metal thing that has a fan on it that covers your cpu)

HT: INTELs Hyper Threading (allows 2 connections to the core of your cpu)

HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language (this is what you are looking at)

HTT: AMDs Hyper Transport Technology (fake FSB, the speed of which the cpu chipset and ram communicate at)

HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol (self exp)

IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics (often reffered to as a cable, its the BIG connector, and old school ribbon cable)

I/O CONTROLLER: Input Output Controller (...)

IP: Internet Protocol (this is what you are known as on the web, you are known as a number. xx.xx.xx.xx)

ISA: Industry Standard Architecture (HAHAHAHA old school slot that pci replaced)

ISP: Internet Service Provider (aol)

KB: Kilobyte 1024 Bytes (self exp)

LAN: Local Area Network ( you are in one if you have a trouter)

LCD: Liquid Crystal Display (the thin tv or monitor, NOT plasma)

LED: Light Emitting Diode (a light that almost never burns out)

LGA: Land Grid Array (the new intel cpus use this connection)

MB: Megabyte 1024 Kilabytes (self exp)

MBM5: Mother Board Monitor 5 (the program which monitors your systems health)

MBR: Master Boot Record (the thing of which the bios reads to determine where to boot from)

MFLOPS: (Mega)Floating-point operations per second (1 million FLOPS)

MHz: MegaHertz (duh)

MICRON: is the thickness of a processors circuit trace (duh)

MIPS:Million Instructions Per Second (duh)

MOBO: Motherboard (duh)

NB: North Bridge (the thing with the big heatsink thats smaller than ur cpu)

NIC: Network Interface Card (what you use to view this website)

NORTHBRIDGE: Core logic Chipset that primarily deals with CPU Memory and AGP and the Southbridge controller (same thing as NB)

NTFS: New Technology File System (replaced FAT)

OC: OverClock (the process of raising the speed of a processor above factory specs)

OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer (no warranty)

OS: Operating System (WINDOWS, LINUX, UNIX, DOS, OS2, AND MAC)

PATA: Parallel ATA (the big cable, see SATA for smaller)

PCB: Printed Circuit Board (what your motherboard, ram, video card, nic,.. must i go on.. everything, is made on)

PCI: Peripheral Component Interconect (replaced ISA, the small slot that u plug ur stuff into)

PCI-E: PCI-Express come in 1x 4x 8x 16x compatible with PCI-X v2.2 (duh)

PCI-X: PCI v2.0+ 2.0 is 266mHz (found in servers)

PCI/AGP LOCK: Function of some motherboards that allows you to lock the Southbridge controllers (duh)

PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (the pci for laptops)

PDF: Portable Document Format (ever heard of adobe acrobat?.. yea)

POP3: Post Office Protocol version 3 (what you use to view email in outlook)

PGA: Pin Grid Array (what amd uses to connect cpus to mobos)

PIXEL RESPONSE: The time it takes for a LCD picel to change from black to white (you want 16ms or lower for gaming)

POST: Power On Self Test (if this dont work, ur computer is broke)

PSU: Power Supply Unit (get a good one, it is.. the power of course)

RAD: Radiator (used in water cooling)

RAID: Redundant Array Of Inexpinsive Disks (using 2 or more hard drives in sync)

RAM: Random Access Memory (duh)

RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to Anolog Convertor (used in old old graphics cards)

RAS: Row Access Strobe or Row Address Strobe (timing in memeory, lower is better)

RBX: Type of waterblock from DangerDen (duh)

REFRESH RATE: number of times a CRT's electron beam sweps across the screen durring a full second (duh)

REP: REPutation points (WHAT YOU SHOULD BE GIVING ME IF YOU ARE LEARNING FROM THIS)

RGB: Red, Green, Blue (color combinations, 0-255)

RGBHV: Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal sync, Vertical sync (?)

ROM: Read Only Memory (what your bios is)

RPM: Revolutions Per Minute (how fast anythign spins)

S478 S939 SXXX: S= SOCKET XXX= NUMBER OF PINS (duh)

SATA: Serial ATA (the skinny connector for new dvd drives and hard drives)

SB: South Bridge (used by intel for sound and kb/mouse controller)

SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface (very fast, same function as IDE, pronounced sk-uh-zzy)

SDR: Single Data Rate (old school simm, or pc100,133 ram)

SDSL: Synchronus Digital Service Line (dsl service where up is same as down)

SIMM: Single In-line Memory Module (OLD SCHOOL RAM)

SLI: Scalable Link Interface (nvidia nforce4 component uses 2 video cards at once)

S.M.A.R.T: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (***)

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (newer type of pop3)

SOUTHBRIDGE: Deals with PCI USB IDE and other I/O controllers (see SB)

SSE SSE2 SSE3: Sreaming Single-instruction-multiple-data Extension (intel made it, eveyrone uses it)

TB: TerraByte1024 Gigabytes (lala duh)

TC: Thermal Compound (see as5, it provides a better contact between chip and heatsink)

TCP/IP: Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (your internet)

TDX: Type of waterblock from DangerDen (duh)

TEC: Thermo Electric Cooling (PELTIER)

TFT: Thin Film Transistor (used with lcd's)

TT: ThermalTake a company that makes HSF and other cooling items

UPC: Universal Power Cord (used on power supplies)

USB: Universal Serial Bus (what your mouse is most likely connected to)

UT: Unreal Tournament (game)

VC: Video Card (duh)

VCORE: Voltage of the CORE of a processor

VDIMM: Voltage of memory (DIMM)

VGA: Video Graphics Array (video)

WAN: Wide Area Network (ouside your modem)

WB: Water Block ( used to cool a processor with liquid)

WC: Water Cooled (process of removing heat from a processor by means of moving water

WI-FI: WIreless FIdelity (wireless internet)

WP: Water Pump

ZIF: Zero Insertion Force



oh noaffinity, pci-x isnt pci express, pci-x is found in servers, and is not in any relation to do with pci-e

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TSOP - Thin Small Outline Package (another type of micro chip packaging, used in most system memory)

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