What is Video Card? What does it do? -Jade

A video card is a printed circuit board that controls what is being put onto your screen. The more images, games, and files you have. The slower your images can be seen from your computer to your monitor. The video card is what puts the image from your motherboard to your screen. If your graphics card gets too slow it is time to change it and get a new one. (1)(2)

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What is the GPU? What does it do? - Tony
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Gpu Stands for Graphics Processing Unit. The graphics Processing unit is what creates the images you see on you computer monitor. Without this part all the images you see. All the videos you watch would look like 3d blocks instead of the real image you see in everyday life.(4)





What does the Graphics card plug into? What does VGA, DVI, And PCI stand for?

The graphics card plugs into the motherboard.(3) A graphics card and a video card are very similar. VGA

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stands for Video Graphics array.A VGA is a three row fifteen pin connector. It is found on many laptops and computer even some high end televisions have it.(5) Dvi Stands for Digital Visual Interface. DVI is the most standered use of transferring digital video content.(7) PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect. PCI is a local computer bus where you attach hardware to the pc.(8)







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Sources

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_card
2.http://phoenixcomputerguys.com/what-does-a-video-card-do/
3.http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_does_a_graphics_card_plug_into_your_computer
4.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit
5.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_connector
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit
7.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvi

8.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect