TPC Common Tech Acronyms

--- A ---

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
APC - American Power Conversion
APX - AirPort eXtreme
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT - Advanced Technology
ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment
ATI - ATI Technologies Inc. (Array Technology Inc.)
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended
AVR - Automatic Voltage Regulator


--- B ---

BFG - BFG Technologies
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BNC - Barrel Nut Connector
BSOD - Blue Screen of Death
BT - Bluetooth or BitTorrent

--- C ---
CAD - Computer Aided Design
CAS - Column Address Strobe
CCFL - Cold Cathode Flourescent Lamp
CD - Compact Disk
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CE - Consumer Electronics
CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft³/min)
CGA - Color Graphics Adapter
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
COA - Certificate of Authenticity
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

--- D ---

DD - Dolby Digital
DDR - Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DFI - DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)
DHCP- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHT - Digital Home Theather
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
DL - Download DMA - Direct Memory Access
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DTS - Digital Theater Systems
DSL - See ASDL
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-RAM - Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory

DVD-RW - Digital Versatile Disc Re-Writer

--- E ---

EAX - Environmental Audio Extensions
ECC - Error Correction Code
ECS - Elitegroup Computer Systems
EDO - Extended Data Out
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVGA - EVGA Corporation

--- F ---

FC-PGA - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FCC - Federal Communications Commission
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
FPS - Frame Per Second
FPU - Floating Point Unit
FSAA - Full Screen Anti-Aliasing
FS - For Sale
FSB - Front Side Bus

--- G ---

GB - Gigabytes
GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI - Graphical Device Interface
GHz - GigaHertz
GNU - Gnu's Not Unix
GPL - GNU Public License
GPU - Graphical Processing Unit

--- H ---

HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF - Heatsink-Fan
HT - Hyper-Threading
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol

--- I ---

IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
IC - Integrated Circuit
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics or Integrated Development Environment
IFS- Item for Sale
IP - Internet Protocol
IPOD - Internet Pod (Apple)
IrDA - Infrared Data Association
IRQ - Interrupt Request
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISO - International Standards Organization

--- J ---

JBL - JBL (James B. Lansing) Speakers
JEDEC -Joint Electron Device Engineering Council
JVC - Japan's Victor Company

- K ---

KB - Keyboard, Kilo Bytes
Kbps - Kilobits Per Second
KBps - KiloBytes per second
KVM - Keyboard Video Mouse (Switch)

--- L ---

LG - LG (Life's Good) Electronics
LAN - Local Area Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LDT - Lightning Data Transport
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LF - Looking For
LGA - Land Grid Array

--- M ---

MAC - Media Access Control
MB – MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps - Megabytes Per Second
Mbps - Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz - MegaHertz
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
MoBo - MotherBoard
MORPG - Multiplayer online role-playing game
MSI - Micro Star International

--- N ---

NAS - Network Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NEC - Nippon Electronics Corporation
NIC - Network Interface Card

--- O ---

OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ - OCZ Technology
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

--- P ---

PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PDF - Portable Document Format
PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PGA - Professional Graphics Array
PIB - Policy Information Base or Processor in a Box (AMD)
PING- packet Internet Grouper
PIO - Programmed Input/Output
PLD - Programmable Logic Device
PM - Private Message / Private Messaging
PnP - Plug 'n Play
PNY - PNY Technology
POP - Post Office Protocol
POP3 - Post Office Protocol Version 3
POST - Power On Self Test
PPPoA - Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PQI - PQI Corporation
PSU - Power Supply Unit

--- Q ---

QoS- quality of service

--- R ---

RAID - Redundant Array of Independent (or inexpensive) Disk
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
RMA - Returned Merchandise Authorization
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPG - Role Playing Game
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute
RSA - Rivest, Shamir, & Adleman (public key encryption technology)
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
RTS - Real Time Strategy

--- S ---

SATA - Serial ATA
SASID - Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
SB - Sound Blaster
SC - Sound Card
SCA - SCSI Configured Automatically
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
SD - Secure Disk
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SIMM - Single Inline Memory Module
SLI - Scalable Link Interface
SMT - Simultaneous Multi-Threading
SECC - Single Edge Contact Connector
SODIMM - Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module
SOHO - Small Office Home Office
SPARC - Scalable Processor ArChitecture
SPKR - Speaker SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface

--- T ---

TB - Terabytes
TBps - Terabytes per second
Tbps - Terabits per second
TDK - Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo Electronics
TEC - Thermoelectric Cooler
TPC - TipidPC
TPS - Transaction Per Second
TWAIN - Technology Without An Important Name

--- U ---

UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair

--- V ---

VC - Video Card
VCD - Video CD
VGA - Video Graphics Adapter
VIRUS - Vital Information Resources Under Siege
VPN - Virtual Private Network
VoIP - Voice over IP
VT - Vanderpool Technology

--- W ---

WAN - Wide Area Network
WIFI - Wireless Fidelity
WIMAX - Worldwide Interoperability Microwave Access
WINE - Windows Emulator
WTB - Want to Buy
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

--- X ---

XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX (Crossfix) Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology





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