A graphics card is an external card that you can plug into your computer through PCI slots, the PCI slots can be found near the rear of the motherboard and there are usually 2-4 of them. The graphics card simply slots into these slots and it can be changed and replaced easily.
A graphics cards main purpose is to take strain off of the RAM for things that involve display, most motherboards these days come with built in graphics cards, and they usually don’t require the need to get a graphics card, there is an easy way to check to see if your system has it built in or if you need to get one, what you need to do is check the back of the computer, there are many different types of connections, which I will explain later, but the main one you should look for is a VGA port, this will be located roughly in the middle of your computer system, this is a blue socket and it has 3 rows of 5 pin connections. If you have this on the back of your system then there is no need to get a graphics card.
These graphics cards are good for things like gaming though, because of the fact that they have their own RAM and therefore taking the strain off of your RAM. So I would only recommend getting a graphics card if it is absolutely necessary, because these aren’t exactly cheap. an example is below:
No comments:
Post a Comment