Owner's Manual

Introduction- 3 -
English
1. Introduction
1.1. Features
• Powered by NVIDIA
®
GeForce
™
8600 GTS Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• Supports PCI Express x16
• Integrated with 256 MB GDDR3 memory
• Supports DirectX 10
• Supports NVIDIA
®
SLI
™
(Scalable Link Interface) technology
(Note)
• Supports AV / S-Video / TV-Out and HDTV output
• Supports 2 DVI-I connectors
• Supports 2 D-sub connectors (by adapter)
• Supports HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) technology
1.2. Minimum System Requirements
• Hardware
- Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 or AMD Athlon
TM
- 128 MB of system memory; 2 GB or more for best performance
- Optical drive for software installation (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive)
- A power supply with 450-watt is recommended
• Operating System
- Windows
®
Vista
- Windows
®
XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
- Windows
®
XP Professional x64 Edition
- Windows
®
2000
• SLI
TM
Configuration
If you are planning on using this graphics card as part of an SLI
TM
system, the
following is required:
- An SLI
TM
certified motherboard with two PCI Express x16 slots and correct PCIe
chipset driver
- Two GV-NX86S256H
- A power supply with 1000-watt or above is recommended
- An SLI
TM
bridge connector
(Note) SLI technology requires a PCI Express motherboard with two x16 physical connectors.
Graphics cards working in an SLI configuration must be with the same model name
(i.e. GV-NX86S256H) and from the same vendor (i.e. GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY).