Video Card

• Video Card


  Alternatively known as: display adapter, graphics card, video adapter, video board, or video controller
• Video card


  • An expansion card that connects to a computer motherboard
  • Used to create a picture on a display
  • Without a video card, you would not be able to see this page
  • Processes images and video, some of the tasks normally handled by the CPU
  • Used by gamers in place of integrated graphics due to their extra processing power and video ram
• Video card


  • Older model AGP video card with multiple types of connections and components
  • More modern PCI Express video card used with today's gaming computers