A graphic card also called a video card is a special device that processes graphics on your computer.A graphic card uses a kind of cpu called A GPU name "Graphic Proccessing Unit" A graphic card also contains memory that can come in 64MB 128 MB 256MB or even 512MB A graphic card can use two slots on a computer a pci slot or the latest cards use AGP slots. A grpahic card also uses special feature like texture and lighting also called T&L it uses multitexturing.A graphic card Gives high quality graphics for your computer. When you connect your moniter to your system the monitor cable is recieving signals coming from your grpahic card give you you quality graphics .you can get some more info here at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit
2006-08-21 06:29:36
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answered by Mike 3
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A Graphics Processing Unit or GPU (also occasionally called Visual Processing Unit or VPU) is a dedicated graphics rendering device for a personal computer or game console. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating and displaying computer graphics, and their highly parallel structure makes them more effective than typical CPUs for a range of complex algorithms.
A GPU implements a number of graphics primitive operations in a way that makes running them much faster than drawing directly to the screen with the host CPU. The most common operations for early 2D computer graphics include the BitBLT operation (combine two bitmap patterns using a RasterOp), usually in special hardware called a "blitter", and operations for drawing rectangles, triangles, circles, and arcs. Modern GPUs also have support for 3D computer graphics, and typically include digital video-related functions as well.
2006-08-21 06:25:25
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answered by Yahoo! Answerer 6
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It is the card in the computer that sends the picture to your monitor. You connect the cable from your monitor to it on the back of the PC. Also called the video card.
2006-08-21 06:25:13
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answered by dewcoons 7
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A graphics card is a computer component that helps your computer process graphic images and display them on your screen.
2006-08-21 06:24:48
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answered by johntadams3 5
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is for your graphics for the computer. if you buy a graphics card that has more resolution, your graphics will be better.
2006-08-21 06:24:26
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answered by superboredom 6
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it's a piece of electronic circuitry that is in your computer and allows it to display graphics, images. You can try going to wikipedia.org and searching.
2006-08-21 06:25:48
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answered by chocolateknight69 3
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Hardware device that provides video capcbility for your computer.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=28
Here are several video cards.
2006-08-21 06:24:59
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answered by alphawhiskey43 3
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