Owner's Manual

Introduction- 3 -
English
1. Introduction
1.1. Features
• Powered by NVIDIA
®
GeForce
™
8600 GT Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• Supports PCI Express x16
• Integrated with 256 MB GDDR3 memory
(For GV-NX86T256H/GV-NX86T256H-ZL only)
• Integrated with 512 MB GDDR2 memory (For GV-NX86T512H only)
• Supports DirectX 9.0c & 10
• Supports NVIDIA
®
SLI
™
(Scalable Link Interface) technology
(Note)
• Supports AV / S-Video / TV-Out and HDTV output
• Supports 2 Dual-Link 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
(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-NX86T256H/GV-NX86T256H-ZL/GV-NX86T512H) and from the same vendor (i.e.
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY).