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Navigation: Home > Hardware Info Library and Tips
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This page has been provided to help shed some light on the importance of each type of device that is commonly installed in or available for today's computers.
Try playing Mechwarrior 4 on a monochrome monitor! Didn't think so... Today's high powered, eyeball straining games insist on 3D processing, realistic shading, polygon rendering dynamos. The video card has evolved from CGA (Computer Graphic Adapter with 4 colors at 320x160 pixels!) Now video cards come in either AGP (Advanced Graphic Port, a 64-bit dedicated connector) or PCI (Personal Computer Interface) flavors. Most cards are equipped with their own co-processors to handle the maddening amounts of graphic data being fed to it. Once religated to Nintendos and Segas, the common computer system can do as well or sometimes outperform video game systems because of the shear mathematical power contained in the case. Some jargon to watch: AGP and PCI refer to the connection type; Rage, VooDoo, Magnum, etc. refer to the processor engine; 4x... is the AGP multiplier; Gouraud shading, DirectX, 3D Renderer, floating-point math are features; and megabytes (MB) is the memory supplied. One important note: Video cards can be coupled with PC-to-TV ports allowing you to plug a television to the computer, a TV Tuner which can receive television cable signals, or TV-Input which is able to pull data from video devices. Related:
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