Graphics cards

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Many of todays computers make use of a graphics card. Others use an integrated graphics system that is built directly onto the computers motherboard. Integrated systems are often used on computers that will not be handling things such as video games, movies, video editing, or other graphically demanding situations. If you will be doing any gaming what-so-ever you will not want integrated graphics. So with that baseline set, lets talk about some technologies.

For many years the standard for graphics cards was the AGP slot. There were several forms of this, APG 2x, 4x, 8x. The APG interface was used until 2004 when it began being replaced by PCI Express, or PCI-E. AGP was limited to a transfer speed of 2.1 GB/Sec, PCI-E on the other hand had a minimum transfer rate of 2.5 GB/Sec.