Gigabyte GV-N590D5-3GD-B Manual - Page 4

1. Introduction 1.1. Features • Powered by NVIDIA® GeForceTM 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 AthlonTM 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). GV-N500 Series Graphics Accelerator - 4 -