This article provides an overview of PCI video cards, including their function, ports, and slots. It explains that PCI video cards connect to the motherboard via PCI slots and have ports like VGA, S-Video, HDMI, and DVI to output video signals. The article also distinguishes between older PCI video cards and newer PCIe video cards, noting PCIe cards provide better performance due to faster data transmission speeds.

1. Title: PCI Video Card – A Complete Review
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Description: This article introduces you with the function, slots, ports and types of PCI video cards.
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Summary: The following covers the contents about PCI video card,including its function, ports,
slots as well as the new PCIe video card. You can go to MiniTool Partition Program website to learn
more about the PCI graphics card.
PCI video card refers to a video card with PCI (peripheralcomponentinterconnect)kind
connections.Itisthe modernkindof videocardthat is used onmany computers.
What Is a Video Card?
A video card,also called a video board, video controller, graphics card, graphics adapter, display card
or display adapter, is an expansion card which turns the numerous tinny dots (pixels) from CPU
(centralprocess unit or motherboard) into images on a monitor that are visible for human. This is also
a transfer process from binary data to pictures.
From a macro perspective, the video card is a kind of hardware that deals with images and videos on
your computer. Usually, some of the image/video process work is handled by the CPU which is
integrated with GPU (graphics process unit). Yet, for certain computer users, like gamers or video
editors who have high requirements for image processing, they make use of video cards to replace the
integrated graphics card to gain more processing power and video RAM (random access memory).

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Video Card Slots/Connectors
A videocardslot, alsocalleda videocardexpansionslotorvideocardconnector,iswhere the card
connectsto the motherboard. Withthe development of videocardtechnologyorskill,the video
card slotexperiencesanevolutionfromISA (industrystandardarchitecture) toPCI,fromPCIto AGP
(acceleratedgraphicsport) andfromAGPto PCIe (PCIExpress).
A videocard that is connectedto the motherboardbyPCIslotis calleda PCI videocard. Fromthe
belowpicture,the videocardisconnectedtothe motherboardthrough the PCIExpressx16
connector.

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Tip: Some original equipmentmanufacturer(OEM) computersormotherboardsmayhave the video
card onboard(integrated) intothe motherboard.Thus,there isnoindividualvideocard.
PCI-E VS PCI Video Card
There are twokindsof PCI kindvideocards,PCI videocardand PCI-e videocard. Theyare almostthe
same in the card model.Yet,theyrelyondifferentconnectiontypes thathave differentlimitsforthe
maximumperformance of the card.PCIvideocardsare limitedbythe slow datatransmission,andit
doesn’thave the graphical potentialof PCIexpressvideocards.
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Video Card Ports
There are 4 main videoports,some are popularinthe pastwhile othersare hotnow.

4. VGA (Video Graphics Adapter or Video Graphics Array)
The VGA isa populardisplaystandard thatisdevelopedbyIBMand releasedin1987. VGA adopts
analogsignals.Therefore,itisonlycapable of lowerresolutionsandlowerqualityof the display.
S-Video (Super Video)
The S-Videoreferstothe Y/Cvideo.Itisa type of connectionanda videotransmissionformatfor
videodevices.S-Videomakesuse of aroundshape connectorinterface andcable to transmitvideo
luminance (Y) andchrominance (C) signalsseparately.
HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
HDMI isa connectorcable thatcan transferhigh-qualityandhigh-bandwidthstreamsof videoand
audiosignalsbetweendevices.The HDMI technologyisappliedtodeviceslike DVDplayer,Blu-ray
player,HDTV,Projector,etc.
DVI (Digital Visual Interface)
The DVI is a kindof videodisplayinterface thatisdesignedtobe anindustrystandardfor
transferringdigital videocontenttodisplaydeviceswith the highestresolution of 2560 x 1600. There
are three kindsof DVIsdependingonthe signalsitcantransmit:DVI-A (analogsignal only),DVI-D
(digital signal only) andDVI-I(bothanaloganddigital signals).
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