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Graphics cards and connections

Graphics cards and connections

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Graphics cards and connections

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- You could have the prettiest, highest resolution monitor in the world, but without the right graphics card to push it, you're not going to get anything on your screen. So, what I want to talk about this episode is just, what is a graphics card and what we should expect. Now, I've got an older graphics card right here in front of me. And you know what? There's a big old heat sink on here. Don't try this at home, kids. Aah. I just ripped a heat sink off. It's okay. He's a trained professional. So, what I want you to look at here first of all, is this fella right here. This is the GPU, or the Graphics Processing Unit. Back in the old days, in order to make something appear on a screen, you had to use some kind of RAM that kept track of what is in every single pixel electronically. And then you would push that out to the monitor itself. And now that works, and it's known as frame buffering. However, in today's world,…

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