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Video adapter

Also known as a graphics card, video card, video board, or a video controller, a video adapter is an internal circuit board that allows a display device such as a monitor to display a picture from the computer. Today video cards are most commonly connected to the AGP slot or PCIe slot on the motherboard, however, can also be found on-board or in a PCI slot.

Picture of the ATI Radeon 9600 video card

Above is an example image of the ATI Radeon 9600 AGP video card; most video cards today resemble the picture shown below. As can be seen in the above picture this video card has three connections, the standard VGA connector, S-Video connector, and the DVI connector.

Also see: Connection, GPU, Output device, Video accelerator, Video definitions

 

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