What Is the Best Video Card for High Definition?
With the ever-increasing demands placed on our computers by video games and media formats like Blu-ray, having a capable graphics card is more important now than ever. However, choosing one from the myriad of options is not always as easy as we might want it to be.
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History
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The video-card market has been dominated by competition between the companies Nvidia and ATI since the turn of the century.
Function
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The purpose of a video or graphics card is to produce visible representations of data and output it to the monitor or other display device.
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Types
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Video cards are currently differentiated by their connective interfaces. The three most common graphics card interfaces are PCI, AGP and PCIe.
Benefits
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As of 2009, the Geforce GTX 295 is the best graphics card available. It is capable of resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600, supports Quad SLI, Pure Video technology, and has enhanced media encoding and decoding built into the hardware itself.
Warning
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Modern graphics cards such as the Geforce GTX 295 require an adequate power supply that is capable of handling 680 watts. Also, a PCIe 2.0 slot is required for connecting these video cards to your computer's motherboard.
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