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| Accelerated Graphics Port |
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| Advanced Technology Attachment |
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| Array Technologies Incorporated |
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| Advanced Technology eXtended |
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| Dual Inline Memory Module |
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| External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
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| High bandwidth Digital Content Protection |
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| High Definition Multimedia Interface |
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| Integrated Drive Electronics |
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| Parallel Advanced Technology Extended |
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| Peripheral Component Interconnect |
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| Peripheral component Interconnect Express |
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| Serial Advanced Technology Attachment |
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| Expansion slot on motherboard designed specifically for graphics cards, faster than PCI, but not PCIe |
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| AGP- Accelerated Graphics Port |
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| CPU manufacturer that is Intel's Rival |
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| AMD- Advanced Micro Devices |
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| ATI- Array Technologies Incorporated |
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| Modern form factor and size of motherboards |
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| ATX- Advanced technology extended |
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| "Brains" of the computer that performs the caculations/processing |
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| CPU- Central Processing Unit |
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| Proprietary way that 2 or more ATI video cards can connect and share resources |
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| Type of Random Access Memory, successor to DDR2 |
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| Slot on motherboard where RAM is put |
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| DIMM- Dual Inline Memory Module |
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| type of optical disk, read by a laser, capable of storing at least 4.7 GB |
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| digital video standard used to connect monitor, successor to VGA |
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| DVI- Digital video interface |
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| Port that allows hard drive attachment outside of the PC case, operates at the same speed as SATA, faster than USB 2.0 |
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| eSATA- External serial advanced technology attachment |
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| unit of measurement for data storage, 1000MB |
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| Single chip graphics processor used primarily for 3D applications |
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| GPU- graphics processing unit |
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| content protection used inside the transmission of a dvi signal |
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| HDCP- High bandwith digital content protection |
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| cable/interface capable of transmitting video and sound in on cable, digital signal |
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| HDMI- high definition multimedia interface |
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| Known as a cycle per second, used in measuring cpu speeds |
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| IDE- integrated drive electronics |
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| worlds largest semiconductor chip processor, manufactures CPUs |
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| type of display used in most flat panel monitors |
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| LCD- liquid crystal display |
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| graphics card manufacturer, also makes chipsets |
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| Pata- parallel advanced technology extended |
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| expansion slot on motherboard, often used for devices such as sound cards, network cards, modems, etc |
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| PCI- peripheral component interconnect |
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| expansion slot on motherboard which doubles the transfer rate of PCI, used for high seed devices such as a video card |
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| PCIe- Peripheral component interconnect express |
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| curent standard use to connect to drives and optical storage devices |
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| SATA- serial advanced technology attachment |
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| proprietary way that 2 or more Nvidia video cards can connect and share resources |
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| SLI- Scalable Link Interface |
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| Unit of storage measurement- 1000GB |
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| Interface used to connect peripheral devices such as keyboard, mouse, print, etc |
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| USB- universal serial bus |
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| an analog video standard used to connect monitor |
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| VGA- video graphics array |
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