Objective: to learn about the video card Warm-up: What is a computer power unit?

Objective: to learn about the video card Warm-up: What is a computer power unit?

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• Transformer for your computer

Video Cards

• By Mr. Sigler

• What is a video card?
• An expansion card that takes data and makes pictures.

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Video Card Components

• Motherboard Connections : Bring in data from the hard drive and electricity from the power supply.
• Memory Chips : Hold the data during processing.
• Monitor Connections: Send pixels to the monitor.

• Pixels are dots of color

• DVI

• VGA

• S-VIDEO

• Driver is software that lets your computer see and use new hardware.

Video Card Connections

• PCI

• PCI-E

• AGP

• Just write the 3 names

Video Card Monitor Connection Terminology

• Video Graphics Array: VGA connects to analog monitors.
• Digital Visual Interface : DVI connects to digital display devices, LCD monitors and digital projectors.
• S-Video : S-Video used to connect a PC video card to a television, only capable of 480i or 576i resolution.
• High Definition Multimedia Interface : HDMI connects a computer to your HDTV set.

• Monitor

What's a GPU?

• A graphics card processor is called a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). It Processes the data

• ATI and NVIDIA produce a large amount of the GPUs on the market.

• http://nrhsonline.com/network%20presentations/2nd/Video%20Card%20Presentation.ppt.

Word	Meaning	Image
AGP	Accelerated Graphics Port
PCI	Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-E	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (The best type of connector)
DVI	Digital Visual Interface
S-Video	Separate Video

Internet Research

• http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=video+card&safe=active&cid=3348648724719249707&os=tech-specs&surl=1

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• Research on www.Tigerdirect.com

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