When we take a look at the situation a few years back, a large number of educational texts concerning the basics of motherboard functioning meant that even irregular followers of the IT industry eventually bumped into one of them. On the other hand, graphics cards are somehow always left out, reviewed, but without much explanation for various expressions, acronyms and terms that make most “newbs” startled. Having understood this, we’ve decided to deal with graphics card in the theoretical sense a little. This is, after all, one of the vital (THE vital, if you’re asking the author of this article) system components, the elements of which should be known at least roughly. Since it would be an incredibly arduous task to take pictures of each element on every type of card, we’ve chosen a single referent model - Zotac GeForce GTS250. This card has a rather typical design, therefore ideal for our intentions…