When we take a look at the situation a few years back, a large number
of educational texts concerning the basics of motherboard functioning
meant that even irregular followers of the IT industry eventually bumped
into one of them. On the other hand, graphics cards are somehow always
left out, reviewed, but without much explanation for various
expressions, acronyms and terms that make most “newbs” startled. Having
understood this, we’ve decided to deal with graphics card in the
theoretical sense a little. This is, after all, one of the vital (THE
vital, if you’re asking the author of this article) system components,
the elements of which should be known at least roughly. Since it would
be an incredibly arduous task to take pictures of each element on every
type of card, we’ve chosen a single referent model - Zotac GeForce
GTS250. This card has a rather typical design, therefore ideal for our
intentions…
Read more at InsideHW.
Part by Part: Get to Know Your Graphics Card @ InsideHW
Posted on Saturday, May 29 2010 @ 21:53 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck