| Name |
Description |
| G4 |
Is a CPU developed by IBM and Motorola with only 7 steps long pipeline. A 867MHz G4 is up to 83% faster then a Pentium IV 1.7GHz. |
| GHz |
Gigahertz - billions of cycles per second. Most often used as a measurement of a PC processor chip's speed and power, with bigger numbers meaning more speed and a higher price. 1000 MHz = 1.0 GigaHertz. |
| Gigabyte |
1000 or 1024 Megabytes, depending on who is measuring. |
| Gigabyte or Gig |
Unit of measurement for pieces of information : approximately 1 billion bytes, 1 million kilobytes, or 1000 megabytes. The gigabyte is the largest measure in common use today. Sometimes shortened to "Gig" or even just G. |
| GPU |
The GPU is the "brain" of the grapiccard, as the CPU. It processing all information that is send to it. |
| Graphics |
A catch-all term for anything involving drawing images on a PC screen. A game with great graphics is one that is visually spectacular. |
| Graphics card |
An expansion card which the PC uses to control the monitor's graphics. Most modern PCs have a special slot for graphics cards called AGP, but you can also get PCI format cards. |