Video Card

The video card is an expansion card that allows the computer to send graphical information to a video display device such as a monitor or projector. The Video Card is also known as graphics card, graphics adapter, video adapter. Each motherboard supports only a limited range of video card formats. Some video cards offer added functions, such as video capture, TV tuner adapter, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 decoding, FireWire, light pen, TV output, or the ability to connect multiple monitors.