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Appendix D
Glossary
dialog box
— Dialog boxes are user-input windows that contain command button
and various options through which you can carry out a particular command or task.
For example, in a Windows application “Save As” dialog box, you must indicate the
folder to contain the document to be saved and the name of that document when
saving it.
dual-card configuration
— A setup where two or more displays (such as an analog
display, a digital display, or a TV) are connected to two NVIDIA GPU-based graphics
cards installed in the computer.
GPU
— NVIDIA graphics processor (chip) products are called
graphics processing
units (GPU)
. Supported NVIDIA GPUs are listed in Chapter 2. The graphics card
you are using is based on an NVIDIA GPU.
HDTV
— high definition television. A system for transmitting a TV signal with far
greater resolution than the standard
National Television Committee (NTSC)
standards. An HDTV set requires at least two million pixels versus a common
television set of 360,000.
multi-graphics card configuration
— A setup where two or more displays (such as
an analog display, a digital display, or a TV) are connected to two (or more) NVIDIA
GPU-based graphics cards installed in the computer.
multi-display configuration
— A setup where two or more displays are connected to
either a multi-display NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card;
or
two (or more) NVIDIA
GPU-based graphics cards.
single-display configuration
— A setup where only one display is connected to the
NVIDIA GPU-based graphics card in your computer.
SLI (Scalable Link Interface)
technology — NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology
takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the PCI Express™ bus architecture to
allow multiple GPUs to work together to deliver accelerated performance.
An NVIDIA SLI system consists of a PCI Express motherboard that supports two
physical connectors capable of having two NVIDIA PCI Express graphics cards
plugged into them. The two graphics cards must be joined together by the NVIDIA
SLI connector.
With the appropriate graphics drivers installed, SLI mode can then be enabled or
disabled. When SLI mode is disabled, you can use all the nView multi-display modes
that are supported, including using up to four monitors connected to the two SLI
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