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  1. video cardnoun

    A piece of hardware installed into a personal computer to allow it to send video signals to an external output device such as a monitor or projector.

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  1. Video card

    A video card is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display. Most video cards offer various functions such as accelerated rendering of 3D scenes and 2D graphics, MPEG-2/MPEG-4 decoding, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors. Video hardware can be integrated into the motherboard or the CPU, but all modern motherboards provide expansion ports to which a video card can be connected. In this configuration it is sometimes referred to as a video controller or graphics controller. Modern low-end to mid-range motherboards often include a graphics chipset manufactured by the developer of the northbridge on the motherboard. This graphics chip usually has a small quantity of embedded memory and takes some of the system's main RAM, reducing the total RAM available. This is usually called integrated graphics or on-board graphics, and is usually low in performance and undesirable for those wishing to run 3D applications. A dedicated graphics card on the other hand has its own Random Access Memory or RAM and Processor specifically for processing video images, and thus offloads this work from the CPU and system RAM. Almost all of these motherboards allow the disabling of the integrated graphics chip in BIOS, and have an AGP, PCI, or PCI Express slot for adding a higher-performance graphics card in place of the integrated graphics.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of video card in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of video card in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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