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Summary: A video card is a card, or chip, inside of a computer that converts digital video signals into something that an output hardware can understand and display. Check what type of video card a computer is running with IT help from a software developer in this free video on computers.
Dave Andrews is a software developer with a business and Web site selling programs and other computer services in Franklin, Tenn. Having worked in the IT industry for more than 8...read more
"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews and today I'm going to explain to you what a video card is. Now a video card is a chip or a card that's inside of your computer, and basically it converts the digital video signals that are being processed by your computer, into something that an output hardware can understand and display, such as a computer monitor, like an LCD monitor that's on my laptop here, or one of those big CRT monitors that were like the older style televisions were. I'm going to show you on the computer how to see what type of video card you're running. Just right-click on my computer on desktop and then click on manage. In Vista, you have to be an administrator to do this. Let's just click on continue. And we're going to find under the system tools, we're going to find the device manager. Now, after we click on device manager, we're presented with a list of all the hardware that's inside of our computer. I'm just going to expand display adapters. As you can see, I'm running here an NVIDIA MCP67M video card. What displays under your display adapters is a listing of all the video cards in your computer and that is the piece of hardware inside of my laptop that is converting the signals process by the computer into something that our LCD monitor can display. My name's Dave Andrews and I've just explained to you what a video card is."
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