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Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

doublea — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:31:35 GMT

Nice guide!

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

DigiMaestro — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:56:57 GMT

Yes, a genius idea, this thread! You are very clever and intelligent, MrMonroe, to have put the info together in such a compact and comprehensible fashion. Thank you very much! It was a great read!

Oh, and the humour! (ex. ISP: Internet Service Provider. They're the one's stretching you over a barrel so you can read this. or "looks like a phone jack after three kids")

Oh, and one I didn't get for a while was "Blue Screen Of Death" - at first I thought the "bs" in "BSOD" stood for "bull $#1t"

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

Phorcis — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:48:25 GMT

Amazing post. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this post!

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

valdeam — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:58:29 GMT

I didn't even notice this was here for a while. Printed it out as a nice little reference for others.

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

lovejojo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:06:24 GMT

wow, that's great~ U've done this yourself? That's incredible~

This is really helpful, like a computer schoolbook for me. Honestly speaking, I was always confused by some of the threads here, can't understand what they are talking about. Thanks for your hard work~

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

slimdagreat — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:06:38 GMT

Seph88:

Like someone else here already stated, i'm no noob but I still found this to be a spectacular refresher. Thanks for the effort.

One revision though. HDMI doesn't transmit sound, just video unless i'm mistaken.

yes you are mistaken. It transmits both video and sound.

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

slimdagreat — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:03:26 GMT

This is awesome, thanks so much.

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

Shwinster — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:01:45 GMT

You can find out your cpu's multiplier in you motherboards bios settings generally in the frequency/voltage settings. Similarly you can use some overclocking tools to view your fsb, multiplier and voltage settings.

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

iamtwan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:15:18 GMT

MrMonroe:
FSB: Front Side Bus: This reference can refer to two numbers; either the base front side bus or the rated front side bus. Base front side bus is the basic speed in mhz of your CPU. When you multiply the base FSB by the multiplier, you get the total speed of the processor. For instance, the Q6600 has a base FSB of 266mhz and a multiplier of 9, so it's total speed is 2.4ghz. Rated FSB is the speed at which your CPU communicates with your motherboard.

how do you know what the multiplier is?

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

skoehler — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:05:51 GMT

add PATA definition ;)

thanks

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

PROACEX1 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:40:12 GMT

Here are some relatively good links to lists of computer and internet acronyms...

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/resources/support/glossary.mspx

http://www.techterms.com/acronyms.php

http://www.acronyms.ch/

Respectfully,

PROACEX1

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

Shwinster — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:37:23 GMT

^^^ HDMI transports both digital video and audio signals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

root — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:31:03 GMT

MrMonroe, might want to add OP (original poster).

Your little list sure has grown! Again, great job on this.

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

Rudonah — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:28:01 GMT

This is fabulous!!!!

I cannot thank you enough for this post!

Way to go on the avitar!

Re: Eggxpert Jargon for Newcomers 101

Seph88 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:59:56 GMT

Like someone else here already stated, i'm no noob but I still found this to be a spectacular refresher. Thanks for the effort.

One revision though. HDMI doesn't transmit sound, just video unless i'm mistaken.