An expansion card that permits graphics to be displayed on an analog computer. Generally, video adapters have their own BIOS, some memory to serve as the frame buffer and a RAMDAC.
An expansion card that plugs into one of your PC's expansion slots, allowing your software and your PC's monitor to talk with each other.
A board that plugs into a personal computer to give it display capabilities. The display capabilities of a computer, however, depend on both the logical circuitry (provided in the video adapter) and the display monitor. A monochrome monitor, for example, cannot display colors no matter how powerful the video adapter.
A computer board that plugs into a slot on the computer’s main circuit board and allows the computer to display text and graphics on a monitor.
a internal circuit board that allows a display device such as a monitor to display images from the computer
an expansion card or component that provides the ability to convert display information into a signal that is sent to the monitor
The logical circuitry that provides (in combination with the monitor) your system's video capabilities. A video adapter may be integrated into the system board or may be an expansion card that plugs into an expansion slot.
An expansion card or chip set built into a motherboard that provides the capability to display text and graphics on the computer's monitor. If the adapter is part of an expansion card, it also includes the physical connector for the monitor cable. If it is a chip set on the motherboard, the video connector will be on the motherboard also.
An expansion board that contains a controller for a graphics monitor.
Sometimes called video card, a plug-in circuit board that gives a computer video display capabilities. The ability of a computer to produce video will depend not only on the adapter but the monitor as well. Most video cards contain some memory so the computer's RAM is not called upon to store images. A video adapter allows the computer to display both text and graphics in a choice of resolutions and colour depth.
The logical circuitry that provides—in combination with the monitor—your system's video capabilities. A video adapter may support more or fewer features than a specific monitor offers. Typically, a video adapter comes with video drivers for displaying popular application programs and operating systems in a variety of video modes. On some Dell systems, a video adapter is integrated into the system board. Also available are many video adapter cards that plug into an expansion-card connector. Video adapters often include memory separate from RAM on the system board. The amount of video memory, along with the adapter's video drivers, may affect the number of colors that can be simultaneously displayed. Video adapters can also include their own coprocessor for faster graphics rendering.
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An expansion board that plugs into a personal computer to give it display capabilities. A computer's display capabilities depend on both the logical circuitry (provided in the video adapter) and the monitor. Each adapter offers several different video modes. The two basic categories of video modes are text and graphics. Within the text and graphics modes, some monitors also offer a choice of resolutions. At lower resolutions a monitor can display more colors. Modern adapters contain memory, so that the computer's RAM is not used for storing displays. In addition, most adapters have their own graphics coprocessor for performing graphics calculations. These adapters are often called graphics accelerators.
An expansion board that plugs into the expansion bus in a DOS computer, and provides the text and graphics output to the monitor. Some later video adapters, such as the VGA, rather than as separate ... more
n. The electronic components that generate the video signal sent through a cable to a video display. The video adapter is usually located on the computer's main system board or on an expansion board, but it is sometimes built into the terminal. Also called video adapter board, video board, video card, video controller, video display adapter.