it stands for Graphics Processing Unit, but it is commonly known as a graphics card, where the images are generated to be displayed on your monitor.
For ATI GPUs, it's called CrossFireX. For NVIDIA GPUs, it's called SLI. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_CrossFireX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface
For ATI GPUs, it's called CrossFireX. For NVIDIA GPUs, it's called SLI.
For ATI GPUs, it's called CrossFireX. For NVIDIA GPUs, it's called SLI.
ATI
you get a program online that can overclock gpus if its a nvidia car their website has a program that overclocks gpus and also allows for fan speed and other settings to be monitored
An R9 290X card has two GPUs on the same card. You can only have four GPUs in crossfire, which means you can only have two R9 290X cards installed in your computer.
alu is for the logical and arithmetical operations in the system unit.
nvidia
For ATI GPUs, it's called CrossFireX. For NVIDIA GPUs, it's called SLI. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_CrossFireX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Link_Interface
In most cases, you cannot change a laptop's graphics card. For nVidia mobile GPUs, they are separate from the CPU, but cannot be changed if they are directly soldered to the laptop's board. For Intel HD graphics GPUs, they are normally integrated with the CPU, so getting a better CPU which is compatible with your laptop's socket, and ideally has same heat output (TDP), may have a better GPU, although the performance difference shouldn't be very drastic. For ATI/AMD mobile GPUs, this varies for each laptop, some are integrated, some are separate, you need to check. AMD designates separate GPUs as "discrete graphics".
For ATI GPUs, it's called CrossFireX. For NVIDIA GPUs, it's called SLI. More info check related links below.
Yes and No. A Graphics Card is another name for Video Card. Graphics Cards (or GPUs for short) are manufactured to more than one expansion slot interface. PCI is one of the oldest, if not first, interfaces for GPUs. Currently, GPUs are being manufactured as PCI-Express x16 interface. There are also version (revision) 2.0 cards, which are called PCI-Express 2.0 x16. They are all compatible with motherboards that have PCI-Express x16 slots. But to take full advantage of the speed of 2.0 cards, it's recommended to buy a newer motherboard.