GRAPHICS CARDS

A Graphics Card is a piece of computer hardware that produces the image you see on a monitor.

The Graphics Card is responsible for rendering an image to your monitor, it does this by converting data into a signal your monitor can understand.

The better your graphics card the better, and smoother an image can be produced. This is naturally very important for gamers and video editors.

The images you see on your monitorare made of tiny dots called pixels. At most common resolution settings, a screen displays over a million pixels, and the computer has to decide what to do with every one in order to create an image. To do this, it needs a translator -- something to take binary data from the CPU and turn it into a picture you can see. Unless a computer has graphics capability built into themotherboard, that translation takes place on the graphics card.

A graphics card's job is complex, but its principles and components are easy to understand. In this article, we will look at the basic parts of a video card and what they do. We'll also examine the factors that work together to make a fast, efficient graphics card..