Part Information - Video Cards

After explaining the memory, I have decided to now explain graphics cards. Basically the graphics card controls how good your 3D image is on your screen. A higher performing graphics card is usually preferred by gamers and expensive ones are used in gaming computers. They are constantly being upgraded almost every week, so therefore it’s ridiculous to spend a huge amount of money on a graphics card. One day, a brand new graphics card is about $350, and then within a month, it drops to $200. It’s always best to spend around $200 on a graphics card for a gaming computer; anything under it wouldn’t be too bad either. The graphics card has it’s own processor and memory in it. The graphics card processing unit is referred to as the GPU. It creates images and then stores it in the memory, that’s what some graphics cards are better than others, is because they have more memory. An example of this would be a graphics card with 512MB of memory versus a graphics card with 1GB of memory. For a deep explanation, the memory connects to the digital-to-analog converter, which takes the data from the memory and converts it to an analogy signal. That analog signal is then directed through the cable to the monitor and it displays the image. Now the different types of names refer to how fast the processor runs. Usually I use www.google.com and have to look up reviews on what the speeds are, but if you saw Geforce 9700, and a Geforce 9800, you could easily assume that the 9800 is better because they’re similar in the make and number. You would want to review a video card if it was a Gefore 9800 and a Geforce gtx 460.