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  1. I have what may be a stupid question.
    What I want to do is get a realtime video card for my system. But I have a question or two first.

    Are Graphic Cards and Video cards or Capture cards the same thing?
    Or does the Graphics card work with the video card and or capture card?
    Would my current system work with lets say a Matrox RT2500 or the Canopus Storm, and when installed would I still have access to all of my other hardware (ie Firewire ports, USB ports etc, Graphics card)?

    Example:
    Sony Vaio RX640 Design Studio
    1.6Ghz P4 Processor
    552 DDR Ram (expandable to 1GB)
    60GB 7200 HD, 120GB external Firewire HD
    64mb GeForceTi Video Card
    Soundmax integrated sound card
    Firewire (6 pin 4 pin)
    Canopus ADVC100
    ASUS OEM Motherboard
    USB
    Dual DVD drives Pioneer DVR-104,Pioneer DVD-117R

    In other words does the Video card work with or replace any of these componets?

    Thanks for the help,
    Dezine (Michael)
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  2. While not true in the past, today all Video Cards are Graphics Cards. A Graphics card is not necessarily a capture card, and a capture card may not be a graphics card. ATI AIW is a combination graphics and capture card. ( It is also a 3d Acellerator, not to be confused with a graphics card)
    So is the Nvidia Cinema something or other. The Hauppage cards are capture cards and not Graphics cards. Also, a capture card may or may not have a TV Tuner. Which in fact you don't really need as you should be using S-Video input from main tuner.

    As a general rule most combinations can be made to work together but there are some which will not so you should research your particular set of components with the card you intend to buy, with motherboard chipset, OS, and existing Video card probably the most critical areas.
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