Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Video Card.

Video Card.

The video card is an expansion card that allows the computer to send graphical information to a video display device such as a monitor or projector. A video card, also known as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter or graphics card. Some video cards offer added functions, such as video capture, TV tuner adapter, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoding, FireWire, light pen, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors.
A misconception regarding high end video cards is that they are strictly used for video games. High end video cards have a much broader range of capability; for example, they play a very important role for graphic designers and 3D animators, who tend to require optimum displays as well as faster rendering. Video hardware can be integrated on the mainboard, as it often happened with early computers; in this configuration it was sometimes referred to as a video controller or graphics controller.

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