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The computer hardware is the assimilation of various components consisting primarily of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) motherboard, monitor, and keyboard apart from various others like graphics card. Have you ever thought while typing on the keyboarded how the desired pictures materialize on the computer screen?
Let me tell you it is very similar to your television screen. The images that you visualize on the monitor made up of tiny dots called pixels. When you set the resolution of the computer, the screen displays over a million pixels and it is for the computer to decide how to create an image with each one of them. The translator comes to its rescue that turns binary data from the CPU into the picture that you see. Unless your PC has in built graphics capability, you need to install a graphics card to turn binary data from the CPU into visible images.

You will come to know more on computer hardware and its functions from technology sites. However, it is complex to define the function of a graphics card; I can simplify the concept by taking the computer as an office and the video card as its art department. The boss wants an artwork, he sends the request to the art department where the decision taken and materialized on paper giving visual shape to the idea. The graphic card functions similarly. The CPU along with the software application sends information about the image to the graphics card, which then decides how to utilize the pixels on the screen for picture formation.

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