Understanding the usage of VGA card

Whether you are building up a new computer or just upgrading your old personal computer to hold new developments in computer games and graphic design tools, purchasing a video card is one of the most significant choices for your personal computer.

The usage of video card and important Features of a Video Card

Video cards virtually control what appears on your monitor, and so it’s a very useful component part. A card has 4 basic specifications you need to look for: Speed, Memory / Resolution, Card Slot Type (PCI, AGP, PCI-E) and Price

From each one of these features has different attract for people who use their computers for different things.

For what you use it

Graphic card is the most important thing for gamers.

- Graphic designers, creative person*, and CAD designers will be more interested in the resolution and memory capacities than speed. Since they are often working on large files.
- Gamers will be interested in speed than anything else, although since computer games have become increasingly complex in past years, memory is quickly catching up.
- Video editors will want balance. They might have to sacrifice having either best of the line resolution, speed and memory. But it’s worth it to be able to work smoothly with large, resource burning video files.
- Normal users who don’t use their computer for much video editing work will probably be most concerned with price.They may not buy an expensive video card since the don't use it oftenly.

Connectivity

At last, 2 connections will be key to the big majority of card users, and those connections affect how the card connects to the computer and monitor.

For connecting to the computer, there are three type there:

* PCI (Old)
* AGP (Current)
* PCI-Express (New)

And for connecting from your card to your monitor, you will almost surely using a DVI output, as what is used by LCD monitors. Older CRT monitors will connect with a VGA cable, and you will need an adapter to connect your old monitor to your new video card. Such an adapter is usually included along with either your monitor or your video card.

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