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Essential Computer Hardware
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Essential Computer Hardware

by Kevin Wilson
August 2024
Beginner
188 pages
4h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Video Card

The video card or graphics card is responsible for processing video, graphic and visual effects you see on your monitor. The graphics card is also known as a GPU (graphics processing unit).

Most video cards offer various functions such as accelerated rendering of 3D scenes and 2D graphics, MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoding, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors.

Most modern motherboards have video cards integrated into them, eliminating the need for a plug-in card. However, integrated video cards are not usually as high quality as plug in cards. This makes plug in cards more suited to high end video production, graphics processing ...

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