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The graphics card - otherwise called a graphics adapter, video adapter, or video card - processes and renders the graphics output from the computer to the [[VDU]] or computer [[monitor]] and is an essential part of the modern computer. On older and budget models graphics cards tended to be integrated with the [[motherboard]] but, more commonly, they are supplied in [[PCI]], [[AGP]], or [[PCI Express]] format. Graphic cards are also the most glamorised computer component as it is the component which creates all the visual effects on the computer which is essential for playing games
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Though many personal computers are [[IBM PC compatible|IBM PC compatible]] using either Microsoft Windows or open-source forms of [[UNIX]] such as [[Linux]], a number of other personal computer types are still popular. The leading alternative is [[Apple Computer]]'s [[Power Macintosh]] platform, based on the [[PowerPC]] [[microprocessor]] (although Apple has announced[http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html] a transition to [[Intel]] microprocessors beginning in 2006).
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