A video card is synonymous with the names Graphic Accelerator Card, Display Adapter or Graphics Card. The video card fits into personal computer’s hard drive. The purpose of the video card is to create and send out images to a monitor. When you hear the word video card you most likely think of a dedicated expansion card that is inserted into the slot on the motherboard. Some video cards give extra features like video capture used in instruments like the Commodore Amiga which is connected by the slots of Zorro II and Zorro III.

You can find video cards in the Apple II, the Apple MAC, the Atari Mega St/TT, the MSX and in video game consoles like the Xbox, PS3 and the Wii. Some video cards are built into the motherboards. If it is then it will use the RAM from the computer’s hard drive. If it is separate then there will have a video memory called Video RAM or VRAM. The memory clock is between 400 MHz an d1.6 GHz. The outputs for video cards are SVGA, DVI, S- Video, Composite Video, Component Video and HDMI. Current manufacturers of video cards are AMD, S3 Graphics, XGI and Matrox.