Graphics Card

Graphics Cards can also be known as Video Cards, Video Adapters and Graphic Adapters. At Jektec we refer to them as Graphics Cards. Primeraly the Graphics Card is used to display information on your screen.

These cards have a metal plate to one end with sockets imbedded. The Metal plate is connected to a circuit board with small computing chips and usually a fan embedded to keep the GPU, which means Graphics Processing Unit, cool. The GPU, like the CPU, runs at a very hot temperature and needs a cooling device to stop over heating problems and damage occuring.

The Graphics Device connects to the Motherboard, to send information, by slotting it into one of two slots, for modern day computers, which slot depends on which Graphics Card you buy.

1. AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port

2. PCI-E - Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

The AGP port is an older port which will be dissused within the next 1 year to 2 years. We would reccomend to buy a Graphics Card that supports the PCI-E.

The Graphics Card can come in different speeds and it depends on what you are computing with your machine depends on how powerful you need a Graphics Card.

Computer Games, Computer Aided Design and Graphics Design would need a fast and more powerful Graphics Card than you would need for simply surfing the Internet or Word Processing.