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Oc'ing An abbreviation for overclocking used often by overclockers.

OPGA Organic Pin Grid Array, is used on every Pentium 3 and above processor from Intel and on the AthlonXP and above. The Organic substrate is more durable then ceramic which was used before it and is also cheaper to product. [image]

Opteron The official name of the server version of Hammer, code named Sledgehammer. It is rumored to have 1MB of L2 cache, and is set to arrive in the 1st half of 2003.

Orb While an orb is technically a sphere or spherical object, Thermatake have adopted this name for a line of conical-finned heatsinks that are based loosely on a design used in HP servers in the 80's. The heatsinks have the fan located in the midst of the fins which allows the unit to offer one of the best price/performance ratios. [image]

OSD On Screen Display, how digital monitors can be configured. [image]

Overclocking The art and science of making a processor run at a higher then normal clock speed. For instance, changing the multiplier so that a 500Mhz chip runs at 667Mhz.

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