See also:
Monitors
Sound Cards
Movies and Video
A video card, (also referred to as a graphics accelerator card, display adapter, graphics card), and numerous other terms), is an item of personal computer hardware whose function is to generate and output images to a display.
The term is usually used to refer to a separate, dedicated expansion card that is plugged into a slot on the computer's motherboard, as opposed to a graphics controller integrated into the motherboard chipset.
Some video cards offer added functionalities, such as video capture, TV tuner adapter, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoding or even FireWire, mouse, light pen or joystick connectors.
Video cards are not used exclusively in Intel-based PCs; they have been used in devices such as Commodore Amiga (connected by the slots Zorro II and Zorro III), Apple II, Apple Macintosh, Spectravideo SVI-328, MSX and, obviously, in video game consoles.
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nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT
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