Video Card Upgrades

Series Summary

Video cards were first developed in the 1960’s when printers were replaced with on screen visuals of documents, pictures and graphics. Since then they have evolved at exponential rates. The first 2D and 3D cards were developed in 1995 and from that point the world of video games exploded. Today games, movies and pictures seem almost as life-like as the computer itself. These video cards have almost made it possible to do away with paper all together. Who knows what the next 5, 10 or 20 years will bring!

This video series will introduce you to many popular kinds of video cards, which ones would be good for your specific needs and how to install them into your computer. There are seemingly endless types, and speeds of cards so knowing what you need and what you don’t is half the battle. If you’re a gamer you will need a faster card than someone who only uploads their digital pictures. Whether you’re an expert or a novice at computer graphics this video series has something for you!

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm James Adams I'm here on behalf of expertvillage.com and now we are going to talk about upgrading I'm assuming since you are watching these video researching on the subject you are looking to up grade you video card or see what options you got. First thing you should know is if your system is to old it is not worth the upgrade you middest well save that money and by to old I mean lets say you bought it in 99. If you bought it in 99 and under you probably shouldn't even be looking at up grading your video card. At that point you should think of taking that machine to the dumpster and getting a new one. But, if your machine is newer then that you can upgrade it and it will pretty successful. One thing to note is if you buy a machine like a HP or a Dell the motherboard sometimes they can not support the newest cards so you have to buy older ones. Also you need to be thinking about what kind of video card you are going to get whether you are going to use for. Are you going to looking to upgrade your video card to play games or do ... and modeling, video editing or do you just want your computer to run faster. The choice is you got there are very very different basically we could divide it in two counts games and autocrat, editing, video, and stuff then checking your email. If you are just doing to buy something to check your email make your computer faster don't it is not worth spending like 300 hundred dollars or 200 hundred dollar or even a hundred dollars for a card. But, if you are going to play games things get a little bit tricker and so you need to be thinking at this point what am I going to use the computer for and why do I think I need a video card because sometimes you may not need to in stall one for what you are doing. "