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If you happen to find a new term not listed (even out of date), or know of a definition not given, please post it in this thread and I will update ASAP.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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Credits go out to Xavier1421 for coming up with the name of the thread.
Originally created by SpookedJunglist. Torch passed to Miki.
If you happen to find a new term not listed (even out of date), or know of a definition not given, please post it in this thread and I will update ASAP.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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- AA: Anti Aliasing
- ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
- AF: Anisotropic Filtering
- AFAIK: As Far As I Know
- AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port
- ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit
- AMD: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- API: Application Programming Interface
- AS5: Arctic Silver 5
- AC7: Arctic Cooler 7
- ASAP: As soon as possible
- ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment
- ATAPI: Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface (EIDE)
- ATX: Form factor was designed to replace the AT form factor
- BGA: Ball Grid Array
- Bios: Basic Input Output System
- BB: Best Buy
- Bit: Binary DigIT
- BE: Black edition
- BSOD: Blue Screen Of Death
- BT: Big Typhoon (A heatsink made by TT)
- BTDT : Been There Done That
- C2D: Core 2 Duo
- C2Q: Core 2 Quad
- CAS: Column Access Strobe or Column Address Strobe
- CBA: Can't be assed (Contributed by Nostrano)
- CCC: Catalyst Control Center
- CCD: Cold Cathode
- CF: CrossFire
- CFM: Cubic Feet per Minute
- CGA: Color Graphics Adapter (4 Color)
- CORE CLOCK SPEED: Speed at which a processor operates
- CMOS: Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
- Conus: Contiguous\\Continental United States
- CPU: Central Processing Unit A.K.A. Processor or proc
- CRT: Cathode Ray Tube
- CS: Counter strike or Computer Science, depending on context.
- CSAA: Coverage Sample Anti-Aliasing
- CS:S: Counter strike Source
- D3D: Direct3D
- dB: decibels
- DODS: Day of Defeat Source
- DD: Danger Den [Store to buy Overclocking gear]
- DDR: Double data rate
- DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module
- DMA: Direct Memory Access
- DOA: Dead on Arrival
- DOS: Disk Operating System
- DPI: Dots Per Inch
- DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
- DVD: Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc
- DVI: Digital Video Interface
- EE: Extreme Edition OR Energy Efficient (Depending on context)
- EG: Exempli Gratia
- EGA: Extended Graphics Adapter (16 color)
- EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
- EIST: Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology
- EVGA: Extended VGA
- FAT: File Allocation Table
- FDD: Floppy Disc Drive
- FPS: Frames Per Second|First Person Shooter|Etc
- FPU: Floating Point Unit
- FSAA: Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing
- FSB: Front Side Bus
- FTL: For the Lose
- FTW: For The Win
- GDDR: Graphics Double Data Rate
- GB: Gigabyte
- GFX: Graphics/Graphics Card
- GHz: one billion clock cycles per second
- GPU: Graphics Processing unit AKA the "Core"
- GUI: Graphical User Interface
- HD: Hard Drive OR High Definition (Depending on the context)
- HDD: Hard Disk Drive
- HDR: High Dynamic-Range
- HL2: Half Life 2
- HSF: Heat Sink Fan
- HT: Intel's Hyper Threading
- HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTT: AMD's Hyper Transport Technology
- HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
- IDE: Integrated Drive Electronics
- IHS: Integrated Heat Spreader
- I/O CONTROLLER: Input Output Controller
- IMHO: In my honest/humble opinion
- IMO: In my opinion
- IOH: Input/Output Hub
- IP: Internet Protocol
- ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
- ISP: Internet Service Provider
- ITAT: Intel Thermal Analysis Tool
- KB: Kilobyte
- LAN: Local Area Network
- LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
- LED: Light Emitting Diode
- LGA: Land Grid Array
- LLC: Load Line Calibration
- MB: Megabyte
- MBR: Master Boot Record
- MCH: Memory Controller Hub (a name for the NB)
- MCP: Media Communications Processor (also called Southbridge)
- MFLOPS: (Mega)Floating-point operations per second (1 million FLOPS)
- MHz: MegaHertz
- MICRON: Micrometer; one millonth of a meter.
- MS: Microsoft
- MIPS: Million Instructions Per Second
- MOBO: Motherboard
- MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures (PSU's)
- MSAA: Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing
- NB: North Bridge
- NIB: New in Box|New In the original Box
- NIC: Network Interface Card
- NM: Nanometers
- 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.
- n00b/nub/Newb/Newbie: New User or not so skilled person with very little experience or knowledge on the subject.
- NTFS: New Technology File System
- OC: OverClock
- OCer: Overclocker
- OCN:
- OCP: Over current protection
- OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
- OLED: Organic light emiting diode
- OP: Original Poster, or Original Post depending on context.
- OpenGL: Open Graphics Library
- OS: Operating System (WINDOWS, LINUX, UNIX, DOS, OS2, AND OS X)
- OTP: Over temperature protection
- OVP: Over Voltage Protection
- PATA: Parallel ATA
- PCB: Printed Circuit Board / Process Control Block
- PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
- PCI-E/PCX: PCI-Express come in 1x 4x 8x 16x
- PCI-X: PCI v2.0+ 2.0 is 266mHz
- PCI/AGP LOCK: Function of some motherboards that allows you to lock the Southbridge controllers
- PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
- PDF: Portable Document Format
- PITA: Pain In The Ass/Arse
- POP3: Post Office Protocol version 3
- PGA: Pin Grid Array
- PIXEL RESPONSE: The time it takes for a LCD pixel to change from black to white (you want 16ms or lower for gaming)
- PLL: Phase locked loop
- POST: Power On Self Test
- PPU: Physics Processing Unit
- PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
- PSU: Power Supply Unit
- QAA: Quality Antialiasing
- QFT: Quoted For Truth
- QPI: QuickPath Interconnect
- RAD: Radiator
- RAID: redundant array of independent drives
- RAM: Random Access Memory
- RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter
- RAS: Row Access Strobe or Row Address Strobe
- RBX: Type of water block from Danger Den
- REFRESH RATE: number of times a CRT's electron beam sweeps across the screen during a full second
- REP: REPutation
- RGB: Red, Green, Blue
- RGBHV: Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal sync, Vertical sync
- RIMM: Rambus Inline Memory Module
- .rar/rar: A popular file archive format similar to ZIP. Most often used on Apple/Mac systems.
- RMA: Return Manufacturer Agreement
- ROFL: Rolling on floor laughing
- ROM: Read Only Memory
- RPM: Revolutions Per Minute
- RTS: Real Time Strategy (has other meanings but this is generally what they mean)
- PWM: Pulse Width Modulation
- S478 S939 SXXX: S= SOCKET XXX= NUMBER OF PINS
- SAA: Supersampling Antialiasing
- SATA: Serial ATA
- SCP: Short circuit protection
- SB: South Bridge or Sound Blaster (depending on context)
- SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
- SDR: Single Data Rate
- SDSL: Synchronous Digital Service Line
- SFF: Small Form Factor
- SG: Seagate
- SIMM: Single In-line Memory Module
- SLI: Scalable Link Interface
- S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
- SMbus: System Management Bus
- SMP: Symmetric Multi-Processors
- SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SPP: System Platform Processor (also called Northbridge)
- SSAA: Super-Sampling Anti-Aliasing
- SSAO - Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
- SSD: Solid State Drive
- SSE SSE2 SSE3: Streaming Single-instruction-multiple-data Extension
- TB: Terabyte
- TC: Thermal Compound or TurboCache (Depending on context)
- TCP/IP: Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- TDP: Thermal Design Power
- TD: Tigerdirect.com
- TDX: Type of water block from Danger Den
- TEC: ThermoElectric Cooling (PELTIER)
- TF2: Team Fortress 2 OCN Server 8.9.16.94:27015
- TFT: Thin Film Transistor
- TIM: Thermal Interface Material
- TL;DR - Too Long, Didn´t Read
- TP: Thermal Paste
- TRUE: ThermalRight Ultra Extreme
- TT: ThermalTake
- TTT: To The Top (Used when bumping threads)
- UEFI - Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
- UPC: Universal Power Cord (used on power supplies)
- UPS: Un-interruptible Power System
- USB: Universal Serial Bus
- UT: Unreal Tournament
- UV: Ultraviolet
- UVP: Under voltage protection
- VC: Video Card
- VCORE: Voltage of the CORE of a processor
- VDIMM: Voltage of memory (DIMM)
- VID: Voltage Identification
- VGA: Video Graphics Array
- VPU: Video Processing unit
- VRM: Voltage regulator module
- W3: Sometimes shorted from the WWW or World Wide Web
- WAN: Wide Area Network
- 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
- WD: Western Digital
- WDM Windows Device Manager
- WI-FI: WIreless FIdelity.
- WP: Water Pump
- XE: eXtreme Edition [same as EE]
- X-Fi: Xtreme Fidelity
- YGPM: You've Got Private Message
- ZIF: Zero Insertion Force
- .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.