Generaly, how duz a video card work?

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umer007

New Member

• Jan 15, 2004

• #1

can sumone plz tell me basically & generally how duz a video card work. Or plz direct me to a site that will tell me how computer hardware works cuz i got questions abt lots of hardware. ex. sound card, network card, hard drive, etc.

O and is there difference between graphicz card and video card.?

 

pike

Member

• Jan 15, 2004

• #2

www.howstuffworks.com is your friend...

No, graphics and video cards are the same.

 

Nigel Goodwin

Super Moderator

Most Helpful Member

• Jan 16, 2004

• #3

pike said:

No, graphics and video cards are the same.

Click to expand...

They pretty well are now, but it wasn't always so!.

 

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umer007

New Member

• Jan 16, 2004

• #4

and can u plz tell me how video cards and network cards work bcuz they arent on www.howstuffworks.com

 

Chees

New Member

• Jan 31, 2004

• #5

how video/graphics card works

there is an example of how a bmp file is processed by a video card in order to be displayed on a computer monitor at this address.

**broken link removed**