Video Cards

A graphic card is often known as the video card or the display adapter. As a hardware component it outputs the images to a display. The video card is independently plugged into the motherboard as as an expansion card. This graphics card is separate from the Integrated Graphics Processor which is integrated into the  motherboard chipset.

Video cards as opposed to the general view are not exclusively used for video games and have a broader applicability. To dissipate heat a heat sink, computer fan or a water block is used. IBM first introduced graphics card in 1981. The minimum standard for latest video cards is VGA or Video Graphics Array that allows 256 colors. As opposed to this the most advanced form of card displaying millions of colors at resolutions up to 2040*1536 resolutions is the QXGA or the Quantum Extended Graphics Array.