Gigabyte GV-N590D5-3GD-B - 1 Introduction; Features; Minimum System Requirements

- 4 -GV-N500 Series Graphics Accelerator
1. Introduction
1.1. Features
• Powered by NVIDIA
®
GeForce
TM
GTX 590 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• Supports PCI Express 2.0
• Integrated with 3072 MB GDDR5 memory (1536MB Per GPU)
• Supports DirectX
®
11
• Supports NVIDIA
®
SLI
TM
(Scalable Link Interface) technology
(Note 1)
• Supports 3Dual-Link DVI-I connectors
• Supports 1 mini DisplayPort connector
• Supports HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) technology
1.2. Minimum System Requirements
• Hardware
- 700-watt system power supply specification or above is recommended for
GV-N590D5-3GD-B
- Intel
®
Pentium
®
4 or AMD Athlon
TM
XP class
- 2GB system memory (4GB recommended)
- Optical drive for software installation (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive)
• Operating System
- Windows
®
7
- Windows
®
Vista
- Windows
®
XP
• Quad SLI
TM
Configuration
If you are planning on using this graphics card as part of an Quad SLI system, the following
are required:
- A Quad SLI-ready motherboard with one dual slot x16 graphics slot for each
graphics card
- Two GV-N590D5-3GD-B for Quad SLI configuration;
- A power supply with 1200-watt or above is recommended
- An SLI bridge connector
(Note 1) 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
(e.g. GV-N590D5-3GD-B) and from the same vendor (e.g. GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY).