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Some may not be familiar with Hackintosh-speak. :mrgreen: Here's a quick run down of some popular things you may see on the forum and may make you go hmmm. Feel free to add your own- this is a work in progress.

/E/E Refers to the /Extra/Extensions folder on your Snow Leopard drive.

S/L/E Refers to the /System/Library/Extensions folder on your Snow Leopard drive.

OOB - (Out Of the Box) - Abbreviation meaning hardware works without any special tweaks.
 
400 Series
Prime Z490-A |  i5 10600K |  HD 630
300 Series
Z370N WIFI |  i7 8700K |  HD 630
200 Series
GA-Z270X-UD5 |  i3 7100 |  Radeon RX Vega 56 Air Boost
100 Series
GA-Z170X-UD5 TH |  i5 6600K |  GeForce GTX 770
9 Series
GA-Z97-D3H |  i7 4790K |  HD 4600
SL - Snow Leopard
HDA - High-Definition Audio
ge=y - GraphicsEnabler=Yes
H55 - Intel's motherboard architecture for lower-end CPUs (i3/i5)
P55 - Intel's motherboard architecture for socket 1156 CPUs (i3/i5/i7-8XX)
X58 - Intel's motherboard architecture for socket 1366 CPUs (i7-9XX)
LGA 775 - The old Intel socket, discontinued. Used for Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Quad CPUs
Fermi - Nvidia GTX 4XX series
Evergreen - ATI Radeon HD 5XXX series
MB - Some forum-users' shortening for Multibeast (be careful, can also stand for motherboard)
FW - Firewire
Kext - Similar to a Windows driver. This helps OS X recognize a computer's hardware.
DSDT - Differentiated System Description Table, provides the configuration information of a system.
ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, helps with OS configuration, power management, and thermal management.
OC - Overclock
OHCI - Open Host Controller Interface, allows system access to Firewire/USB ports
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semi-conductor, a type of circuitry design
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System, initializes and identifies system components
x86 - 32-bit operating system
x64 - 64-bit operating system

I think that about covers it.. By the way Tonymac, you should probably put this in a more active location so people actually see it ;)
 
If you could put this in the 'sticky' section, that would make it more useful.

Tom
 
2nd making this a sticky, but pointing to the Wiki. Thanks, TonyMacX86, for starting the acronym list.
 
Seriously don't know why I couldn't locate that. :oops:

Thanks!
 
jimx86 said:
SL - Snow Leopard
HDA - High-Definition Audio
ge=y - GraphicsEnabler=Yes
H55 - Intel's motherboard architecture for lower-end CPUs (i3/i5)
P55 - Intel's motherboard architecture for socket 1156 CPUs (i3/i5/i7-8XX)
X58 - Intel's motherboard architecture for socket 1366 CPUs (i7-9XX)
LGA 775 - The old Intel socket, discontinued. Used for Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Quad CPUs
Fermi - Nvidia GTX 4XX series
Evergreen - ATI Radeon HD 5XXX series
MB - Some forum-users' shortening for Multibeast (be careful, can also stand for motherboard)
FW - Firewire
Kext - Similar to a Windows driver. This helps OS X recognize a computer's hardware.
DSDT - Differentiated System Description Table, provides the configuration information of a system.
ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, helps with OS configuration, power management, and thermal management.
OC - Overclock
OHCI - Open Host Controller Interface, allows system access to Firewire/USB ports
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semi-conductor, a type of circuitry design
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System, initializes and identifies system components
x86 - 32-bit operating system
x64 - 64-bit operating system

I think that about covers it.. By the way Tonymac, you should probably put this in a more active location so people actually see it ;)
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Hi you said that H55 "Intel's motherboard architecture for lower-end CPUs (i3/i5)", it can run i7 8xx also since it's 1156 socket. Am I wrong?
 
Build 1
GA-P55-USB3 |  i7 860 |  GeForce GTX 670
grafixidea said:
jimx86 said:
SL - Snow Leopard
HDA - High-Definition Audio
ge=y - GraphicsEnabler=Yes
H55 - Intel's motherboard architecture for lower-end CPUs (i3/i5)
P55 - Intel's motherboard architecture for socket 1156 CPUs (i3/i5/i7-8XX)
X58 - Intel's motherboard architecture for socket 1366 CPUs (i7-9XX)
LGA 775 - The old Intel socket, discontinued. Used for Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Quad CPUs
Fermi - Nvidia GTX 4XX series
Evergreen - ATI Radeon HD 5XXX series
MB - Some forum-users' shortening for Multibeast (be careful, can also stand for motherboard)
FW - Firewire
Kext - Similar to a Windows driver. This helps OS X recognize a computer's hardware.
DSDT - Differentiated System Description Table, provides the configuration information of a system.
ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, helps with OS configuration, power management, and thermal management.
OC - Overclock
OHCI - Open Host Controller Interface, allows system access to Firewire/USB ports
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semi-conductor, a type of circuitry design
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System, initializes and identifies system components
x86 - 32-bit operating system
x64 - 64-bit operating system

I think that about covers it.. By the way Tonymac, you should probably put this in a more active location so people actually see it ;)
Click to expand...

Hi you said that H55 "Intel's motherboard architecture for lower-end CPUs (i3/i5)", it can run i7 8xx also since it's 1156 socket. Am I wrong?
Click to expand...
You are correct, he was wrong.
 
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TUF Z390-PRO GAMING |  i9 9900K |  Vega 64 8GB
KabyLake
GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming |  i7 7700K |  HD 630
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ROG STRIX Z270I GAMING |  i7 7700K |  HD 630
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