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| GB | See Gigabyte. |
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| GHz | Gigahertz - billions of cycles per second. Often used as a measurement of a PC processor chip\\\'s speed and power, with bigger numbers meaning a bit more speed, and a higher price. 1000 MHz = 1.0 GigaHertz. See also MHz. |
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| GIF | (Graphics Interchange Format) A popular type of compressed graphics (picture) file, widely used on the WWW. Best for artwork with 256 colours or less. See also jpg, compression. |
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| Gigabyte (or Gig) | Unit of measurement for pieces of information : approximately 1 billion bytes, 1 million kilobytes, or 1000 megabytes. Hard disk sizes are usually measured in gigabytes. Often shortened to [GB], [Gig] or just G. |
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| GPF | (General Protection Fault) An common error message in early versions of Windows, seen when a program tried to do something Windows thought it shouldn\\\'t, often locking up the PC. |
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| 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. |
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| Graphics card (or video card) | An expansion card which the PC uses to control the monitor\\\'s graphics. The better your Graphics card the more likely you can play modern video games on your PC. Modern PCs have a dedicated slot for graphics cards... PCI-Express or AGP, but you can also still get older PCI format cards which use an extra PCI expansion slot. |
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| GUI | (Graphical User Interface; pr. \\\"gooey\\\") means that a program\\\'s controls are represented pictorially, with symbols, buttons and so forth, and mostly controlled by pointing and clicking with a mouse rather than having to type in text commands. Almost all modern software is GUI controlled. |
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