What Is a graphics card?A Graphics Card is a piece of computer hardware that produces the image you see on a monitor. The Graphics Card is responsible for rendering an image to your monitor, it does this by converting data into a signal your monitor can understand.
Graphics cards come in these major sellers.
Two Major Graphics Card TypesIntergrated = Built with the computer.
External = Built Somewhere else but not with the computer but can be hooked into this area of a motherboard
(This is a dell optiplex, just using it for an example)
AMD/ATI - Expensive But Strong and Kind of fast
(External)
Intel Cheap, But Strong and sort of slow
Nividia Expensive But EXTREMELY Strong.
Let the debate begin >:-]