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What is a graphics card?

Can someone please explain this to the likes of moi who am technically illiterate?

You will need to use words of one syllable...

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  • Richie-from-the-Boro
    Richie-from-the-Boro Posts: 6,945 Forumite
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    edited 16 March 2011 at 10:23PM
    It's one of these and goes into your PC, if you have a Laptop and not a PC tell me

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  • ramjug
    ramjug Posts: 112 Forumite
    Graphics card can be taken as a Hardware in your laptop/Desktop. Think of this as a CD-Drive, as cd-drive helps you in reading/watching movies or songs. Graphic card helps your system in displaying graphic on your system. whatever you see on your screen is due to graphic card capability.

    Every system we buy has some sort(quality wise) of graphics card, but one may need some better quality graphic card if we are using our PC for some intensive complicated games (all the latest games, fighting ones)

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  • esuhl
    esuhl Posts: 9,409 Forumite
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    A graphics card (sometimes called a graphics adaptor or video card/adaptor or display adaptor) is a component in a PC that is dedicated to producing the video output that you see on your monitor.

    Some motherboards (the main circuit board inside a PC) have a basic graphics card built-in (although, of course, it's not a separate circuit-board "card"). The phrase "integrated graphics" or "onboard graphics" refer to motherboards that have a built-in graphics card.

    Built-in display adaptors keep the cost of a PC down, but are only suitable for 2D tasks (i.e. office work, surfing the web, etc.). To play games with 3D graphics, you'd almost certainly need a good seperate graphics card.
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