Video circuitry that is designed to fit into an expansion bus and that determines the quality of the display and resolution of your monitor.
The component responsible for producing the visual output from your computer.
The video card takes processes done by the computer and sends them out to the monitor. The video card is usually placed in an expansion slot on the mainboard. This is part of the hardware. See inside the case.
A video card helps your PC create video images on a monitor. Video cards help quickly render video games and DVD videos in lifelike color and 3D.
Most of the processing done on a computer is done via the computer's central ...
A plug-in circuit board that enables a computer to display information on a particular type of monitor. (7/96)
a board install in your computer or I hope you have one in order to play any video file but is not going to setup by itself so click right on my computer choose properties click on hardware/device manager and you are going to see a list
a card that hooks into the motherboard
a circuit board that translates output instructions from the CPU into data that can be displayed on a computer monitor
a computer component that is responsible for sending all outgoing information to a monitor
a device that translates the output of a computer into the visual signals that we see on a monitor
a hardware component that allows your computer to produce video images
a large, expensive, prone-to-overheating piece of circuitry that plugs into your motherboard and makes games look droolworthy
a much harder sell to the computer layman when CPU clockspeed, memory size and hard drive size dominate the specifications sheet for most PCs
an add-on card that allows information to be displayed on a screen
a physical piece of equipment that you must buy, then open up your computer and install
a sizable investment, even if it is a mid range card
a small, removable, expansion card with a printed circuit board, often red or green, with electronic components on its surface, as well as a fan, in some cases
a vital part of any computer system
The part of the computer that sends the images to the monitor.
Dedicated card or section of the motherboard dedicated to processing images. Also called a graphics card.
An expansion card installed inside a computer that contains necessary circuitry to create a video signal that can be processed by a computer display. There are many different types of video cards with varying capabilities regarding monitor size supported and total number of displayable colors.
The card your monitor plugs into at the back of your computer. It controls display factors such as resolution, colors & speed. The newer cards contain some memory (8MB is the high currently) so your computer isn't bogged down by handling all these chores by itself.
The device that converts the signals from the processor into what you see on your computer's monitor.
A device attached to your motherboard that enables the display of graphics on your monitor. Video cards play a large part in determining the speed, quality, and capabilites of your graphics displays.
Aka video adapter. A controller card that controls communication between the CPU and the monitor. See also my article on Video.
This is the component of your computer that puts a picture onto your screen. They can also 'accelerate' motion video, and 3D games.
Controls the computer's monitor signal and comes installed on every computer. To do videoconferencing you need at least 16 megabytes.
The card that allows your computer to communicate with your monitor, the video card has its own dedicated memory and is directly responsible for calculating the colour, position and size of all object on the screen. 3D cards are often a pre-requisite for many of today's best-selling games. Some computers come with a video card already incorporated into the mother card.
A computer add-in card that acts as a graphics processor and as an interface between the monitor and the computer.
The card that controls the computer's video display. Such cards usually incorporate graphics- and 3-D-acceleration processors. Video cards that have large amounts of onboard RAM can display greater color depths at higher resolutions.
What turn the stuff in your computer into something you can see on the monitor. There are cards for most bus types, ISA, PCI, AGP, PCI-Express (PCI-E). So far AGP is the only one that can be tricky, as there are 3 different voltages for it.
A computer peripheral card that enables a monitor to be connected. Video cards come in a wide array of sizes and speeds. Video cards can be labeled as VGA, SVGA, XGA or EGA and as with other computer cards they also have different bus configurations like VLB, PCI and ISA.
Also known as "video adapter" A board that plugs into your computer (onto the motherboard) to allow display to your monitor / LCD. Video cards range in perfomance and price. The current standard is known as AGP.
A video card is used to generate and send video signals to the monitor by means of a cable. The video card can be located on the motherboard or in an expansion slot.
An interchangeable hardware component which handles the graphics processing and display of images
A circuit board that plugs into a personal computer to give it display capabilities.
A video card is a card that plugs into your motherboard and enables you to see things on your display (monitor). If you have video circuitry built-in to your motherboard, you don't need a video card. But if you don't, then you will need a video card in order to see anything on your monitor. There are 2D video cards, as well as 2D/3D video cards. Usually a video card will plug into either a PCI slot or an AGP slot in your motherboard.
An interface card installed in the computer to control visual output on a monitor. Also called display adapter.
A device for the digital signals your computer "thinks" in to signals compatible with your monitor (see Video Monitor). Currently, bigger better faster video cards are dedicated to three dimensional (3D) pictures. If you are buying a computer for normal business use, buy the lowest end video card you can - the 3D stuff won't help you a bit. The exception to this might be if you are buying the computer for mechanical drawing or video processing (for TV, for example). In these cases, check the software you are going to buy to see if a particular video card can help. Quite often, a video card can be an inexpensive way to make vast improvements to certain programs' performance.
This component is used to transfer data to your monitor so that it can be displayed. Today's video cards have a variety of "3D" capabilities. 3D video cards are only needed for playing games though. When playing 3D games, the video card is the most important component. See my Video Card section for a more in-depth discussion of this.
An expansion card that provides the video capabilities—in combination with the monitor—for your computer system. A video card may support more or fewer features than a specific monitor offers. Typically, a video card comes with video drivers for displaying popular application programs and operating systems in a variety of video modes. Video cards can include memory separate from RAM on the system board. The amount of video memory, along with the card's video drivers, may affect the number of colors that can be simultaneously displayed. Video cards can also include their own coprocessor for faster graphics rendering.
Expansion card installed in a PC to provide video capabilities.
A dedicated piece of hardware which performs graphics operations. Also called a display adapter. Consists of microchips and other electronic components mounted on a pc-board which connects into a slot (ISA, EISA, MCA, VLB or PCI) on the motherboard.
A card the fits into a computer's expansion slot so you can edit digital video.
Sometimes called graphics cards, the video card produces the display viewed on your screen which is made up of dots called 'pixels'. Usually a video card will show at least 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels high and they can use millions of colours. Older cards operate at 640 by 480 pixels and use only 256 colours.
Expansion card that converts digital output from a computer into an analog video signal and sends the signal through a cable to the monitor, which displays an image on the screen. Also called a graphics card or video adapter. 4.4, 4.23, 6.10
A circuit board that enables a computer to display information on its screen. The resolution, number of colours, and refresh rate of a monitor is determined by the kind of video card used, plus the limitations of the monitor itself.
A video card, (also referred to as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter and numerous other terms), is an item of personal computer hardware whose function is to generate and output images to a display. The term is usually used to refer to a separate, dedicated expansion card that is plugged into a slot on the computer's motherboard, as opposed to a graphics controller integrated into the motherboard chipset.