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Below is a list of acronyms you may see around overclock.net. This thread is to help members decipher commonly used (and maybe not so common) acronyms on OCN.

If you happen to find a new term not listed (even out of date), or know of a definition not given, please post it in this thread and I will update ASAP.

Thanks for your help.

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1. AA: Anti Aliasing
2. ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
3. AF: Anisotropic Filtering
4. AFAIK: As Far As I Know
5. AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port
6. ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit
7. AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
8. API: Application Programming Interface
9. AS5: Arctic Silver 5
10. AC7: Arctic Cooler 7
11. ASAP: As soon as possible
12. ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment
13. ATAPI: Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface (EIDE)
14. ATX: Form factor was designed to replace the AT form factor
15. BGA: Ball Grid Array
16. Bios: Basic Input Output System
17. BB: Best Buy
18. Bit: Binary DigIT
19. BE: Black edition
20. BSOD: Blue Screen Of Death
21. BT: Big Typhoon (A heatsink made by TT)
22. BTDT : Been There Done That
23. C2D: Core 2 Duo
24. C2Q: Core 2 Quad
25. CAS: Column Access Strobe or Column Address Strobe
26. CBA: Can't be assed (Contributed by Nostrano)
27. CCC: Catalyst Control Center
28. CCD: Cold Cathode
29. CF: CrossFire
30. CFM: Cubic Feet per Minute
31. CGA: Color Graphics Adapter (4 Color)
32. CORE CLOCK SPEED: Speed at which a processor operates
33. CMOS: Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
34. Conus: Contiguous\Continental United States
35. CPU: Central Processing Unit A.K.A. Processor or proc
36. CRT: Cathode Ray Tube
37. CS: Counter strike or Computer Science, depending on context.
38. CSAA: Coverage Sample Anti-Aliasing
39. CS:S: Counter strike Source
40. D3D: Direct3D
41. dB: decibels
42. DODS: Day of Defeat Source
43. DD: Danger Den [Store to buy Overclocking gear]
44. DDR: Double data rate
45. DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module
46. DMA: Direct Memory Access
47. DOA: Dead on Arrival
48. DOS: Disk Operating System
49. DPI: Dots Per Inch
50. DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
51. DVD: Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc
52. DVI: Digital Video Interface
53. EE: Extreme Edition OR Energy Efficient (Depending on context)
54. EG: Exempli Gratia
55. EGA: Extended Graphics Adapter (16 color)
56. EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
57. EIST: Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology
58. EVGA: Extended VGA
59. FAT: File Allocation Table
60. FDD: Floppy Disc Drive
61. FPS: Frames Per Second|First Person Shooter|Etc
62. FPU: Floating Point Unit
63. FSAA: Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing
64. FSB: Front Side Bus
65. FTL: For the Lose
66. FTW: For The Win
67. GDDR: Graphics Double Data Rate
68. GB: Gigabyte
69. GFX: Graphics/Graphics Card
70. GHz: one billion clock cycles per second
71. GPU: Graphics Processing unit AKA the "Core"
72. GUI: Graphical User Interface
73. HD: Hard Drive OR High Definition (Depending on the context)
74. HDD: Hard Disk Drive
75. HDR: High Dynamic-Range
76. HL2: Half Life 2
77. HSF: Heat Sink Fan
78. HT: Intel’s Hyper Threading
79. HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language
80. HTT: AMD’s Hyper Transport Technology
81. HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
82. IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics
83. IHS: Integrated Heat Spreader
84. I/O CONTROLLER: Input Output Controller
85. IMHO: In my honest/humble opinion
86. IMO: In my opinion
87. IOH: Input/Output Hub
88. IP: Internet Protocol
89. ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
90. ISP: Internet Service Provider
91. ITAT: Intel Thermal Analysis Tool
92. KB: Kilobyte
93. LAN: Local Area Network
94. LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
95. LED: Light Emitting Diode
96. LGA: Land Grid Array
97. LLC: Load Line Calibration
98. MB: Megabyte
99. MBR: Master Boot Record
100. MCH: Memory Controller Hub (a name for the NB)
101. MCP: Media Communications Processor (also called Southbridge)
102. MFLOPS: (Mega)Floating-point operations per second (1 million FLOPS)
103. MHz: MegaHertz
104. MICRON: Micrometer; one millonth of a meter.
105. MS: Microsoft
106. MIPS: Million Instructions Per Second
107. MOBO: Motherboard
108. MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures (PSU's)
109. MSAA: Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing
110. NB: North Bridge
111. NIB: New in Box|New In the original Box
112. NIC: Network Interface Card
113. NM: Nanometers
114. NVIDIA: NVIDIA, is a mixture of "n" a mathematical variable meaning "to the highest degree" and video,which comes from Latin videre, "to see" — implying "the best visual experience.
115. n00b/nub/Newb/Newbie: New User or not so skilled person with very little experience or knowledge on the subject.
116. NTFS: New Technology File System
117. OC: OverClock
118. OCer: Overclocker
119. OCN: Overclock.net
120. OCP: Over current protection
121. OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
122. OLED: Organic light emiting diode
123. OP: Original Poster, or Original Post depending on context.
124. OpenGL: Open Graphics Library
125. OS: Operating System (WINDOWS, LINUX, UNIX, DOS, OS2, AND OS X)
126. OTP: Over temperature protection
127. OVP: Over Voltage Protection
128. PATA: Parallel ATA
129. PCB: Printed Circuit Board / Process Control Block
130. PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
131. PCI-E/PCX: PCI-Express come in 1x 4x 8x 16x
132. PCI-X: PCI v2.0+ 2.0 is 266mHz
133. PCI/AGP LOCK: Function of some motherboards that allows you to lock the Southbridge controllers
134. PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
135. PDF: Portable Document Format
136. PITA: Pain In The Ass/Arse
137. POP3: Post Office Protocol version 3
138. PGA: Pin Grid Array
139. PIXEL RESPONSE: The time it takes for a LCD pixel to change from black to white (you want 16ms or lower for gaming)
140. PLL: Phase locked loop
141. POST: Power On Self Test
142. PPU: Physics Processing Unit
143. PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
144. PSU: Power Supply Unit
145. QAA: Quality Antialiasing
146. QFT: Quoted For Truth
147. QPI: QuickPath Interconnect
148. RAD: Radiator
149. RAID: redundant array of independent drives
150. RAM: Random Access Memory
151. RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter
152. RAS: Row Access Strobe or Row Address Strobe
153. RBX: Type of water block from Danger Den
154. REFRESH RATE: number of times a CRT's electron beam sweeps across the screen during a full second
155. REP: REPutation
156. RGB: Red, Green, Blue
157. RGBHV: Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal sync, Vertical sync
158. RIMM: Rambus Inline Memory Module
159. .rar/rar: A popular file archive format similar to ZIP. Most often used on Apple/Mac systems.
160. RMA: Return Manufacturer Agreement
161. ROFL: Rolling on floor laughing
162. ROM: Read Only Memory
163. RPM: Revolutions Per Minute
164. RTS: Real Time Strategy (has other meanings but this is generally what they mean)
165. PWM: Pulse Width Modulation
166. S478 S939 SXXX: S= SOCKET XXX= NUMBER OF PINS
167. SAA: Supersampling Antialiasing
168. SATA: Serial ATA
169. SCP: Short circuit protection
170. SB: South Bridge or Sound Blaster (depending on context)
171. SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
172. SDR: Single Data Rate
173. SDSL: Synchronous Digital Service Line
174. SFF: Small Form Factor
175. SG: Seagate
176. SIMM: Single In-line Memory Module
177. SLI: Scalable Link Interface
178. S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
179. SMbus: System Management Bus
180. SMP: Symmetric Multi-Processors
181. SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
182. SPP: System Platform Processor (also called Northbridge)
183. SSAA: Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing
184. SSD: Solid State Drive
185. SSE SSE2 SSE3: Streaming Single-instruction-multiple-data Extension
186. TB: Terabyte
187. TC: Thermal Compound or TurboCache (Depending on context)
188. TCP/IP: Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
189. TDP: Thermal Design Power
190. TD: Tigerdirect.com
191. TDX: Type of water block from Danger Den
192. TEC: ThermoElectric Cooling (PELTIER)
193. TF2: Team Fortress 2 OCN Server 8.9.16.94:27015
194. TFT: Thin Film Transistor
195. TIM: Thermal Interface Material
196. TP: Thermal Paste
197. TRUE: ThermalRight Ultra Extreme
198. TT: ThermalTake
199. UPC: Universal Power Cord (used on power supplies)
200. UPS: Un-interruptible Power System
201. USB: Universal Serial Bus
202. UT: Unreal Tournament
203. UV: Ultraviolet
204. UVP: Under voltage protection
205. VC: Video Card
206. VCORE: Voltage of the CORE of a processor
207. VDIMM: Voltage of memory (DIMM)
208. VID: Voltage Identification
209. VGA: Video Graphics Array
210. VPU: Video Processing unit
211. VRM: Voltage regulator module
212. W3: Sometimes shorted from the WWW or World Wide Web
213. WAN: Wide Area Network
214. WB: Water Block ( used to cool a processor with liquid)
215. WC: Water Cooled (process of removing heat from a processor by means of moving water
216. WD: Western Digital
217. WDM Windows Device Manager
218. WI-FI: WIreless FIdelity.
219. WP: Water Pump
220. XE: eXtreme Edition [same as EE]
221. X-Fi: Xtreme Fidelity
222. YGPM: You've Got Private Message
223. ZIF: Zero Insertion Force
224. .zip|ZIP|ZP: Compression files that save disk space (PKZip is most popular)

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Credits go out to Xavier1421 for coming up with the name of the thread.

Originally created by SpookedJunglist. Torch passed to Miki.

Ludaz

Outstanding!!

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Thank you goes to Spooked for the great idea, I think the New Members area is a good place for this thread. New members should refer to this Acronym guide when they are lost during a thread where acronyms are used extensively.

This sticky will be a living sticky, meaning people who post pertinent information (ie. new acronyms) will be added to the sticky.

I give that job to Spooked, and I will help out as necessary.

Great job Spooked!

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NoAffinity

Just a couple additions/clarifications:

NB - Northbridge (see original post)

SB - Southbridge (see original post)

HTT and HT are synonomous (for Hyper-Threading or Hyper-Threading Technology), when used in reference to an Intel CPU

VC - video card

PCI-E/PCI-X - PCI-Express

Other than those, looks good.

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Anti-Aliasing and Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing seen to be a big one out there, lots of people don't know what they do (I didn't up until last night, lol)

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DOS: Disk Operating System

dpi: Dots Per Inch

ATAPI: ATtachment PAcket Interface

EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

GUI: Graphical User Interface

HD: Hard Disk Hard Drive

HTML: HyperText Markup Language

http: HyperText Transfer Protocol

IP: Internet Protocol

ISA: Industry Standard Architecture

ISP: Internet Service Provider

LAN: Local Area Network

NIC: Network Interface Card

OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer

PCMIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDF: Portable Document Format

POP3: Post Office Protocol version 3

RGB: Red, Green, Blue

SIMM: Single In-line Memory Module

SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

TCP/IP: Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TFT: Thin Film Transistor

DMA: Direct Memory Access

USB: Universal Serial Bus

VGA: Video Graphics Array

WAN: Wide Area Network

WI-FI: WIreless FIdelity

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RPM - Round/Rotations per Minute
CFM - Cubic Feet Per Minute
SDR - Single Data Rate
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
CC - Circuit City
SLI - Scalable Link Interface

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Thanks now that i have all this responsibility i wont be able to finish any other
Sticky worthy posts..... J/k

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shermstix

PCI-X is actually not PCI-e. It is a long slot used a lot in servers. Similar to PCI, just faster. I don't think it accepts PCI cards either...... Just a little snippet

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