(MULTIple-Graphics Processing Units) Using two or more display adapters in the same PC to speed up the graphics animation for gamers. NVIDIA's Scalable Link Interface (SLI) and ATI's CrossFire are examples. See GPU, SLI and CrossFire.
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- Blog posts 2008-11-19
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- Blog posts 2008-11-14
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- Blog posts 2008-11-14
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- Blog posts 2008-11-14
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- Blog posts 2008-11-13
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