How to watch a video card on windows 8

Inside the system unit housing, many devices are hidden, deciding a wide variety of tasks. The video card, or the graphics accelerator, is one of the paramount of the most important components of the PC, and sometimes the user has a need or simply idle interest to get information about this module.

We learn a video card in a computer with Windows 8

So, it became interesting for you to know what a video adapter is installed on your computer with Windows 8. Of course, you can find a paper description on the device, try to find packaging or open the system unit and see the marking on the board. But these methods are not always productive. It is much easier and faster to use the device manager or third-party software dispatcher.

Method 1: third-party software

There are many programs from various software developers to view information and diagnose the computer. Having established one of these utilities, you will be able to familiarize yourself with the most complete and detailed information about the hardware of the PC, including the video adapter. Consider as an example three different programs that allow you to learn the detailed characteristics of the video card installed on the computer.

Speccy

Speccy is a compact free program with wide opportunities from Piriform Limited. Speccy supports Russian, which will undoubtedly be convenient to the user.

1. After installation, opening the program, we observe in the right window a brief information about computer graphics devices.



2. To view more detailed information about your graphics card in the left program window, click the "Graphic Devices" button. Exhaustive data about the manufacturer, model, memory frequencies, BIOS version, and so on.

Aida64.

AIDA64 is the development of FinalWire Ltd. programmers. The program is paid, but with a huge set of tools for diagnosing and testing a computer. Supports 38 languages, including Russian.

1. Install and run software, click on the "Display" icon on the main page.



2. In the next window, we are interested in the "Graphics Processor" section.



3. Now we see more than sufficient information about your graphic accelerator. Long column with different characteristics. In addition to the main parameters, there is: the number of transistors, the size of the crystal, pixel conveyors, the type of technological process and much more.

PC Wizard

Another localized and free-free software program for collecting information about computer "hardware" is PC Wizard from CPUID. The portable version does not need to be installed on the hard disk, the software will start from any media.

1. We open the program, in the starting window in general information about the system we see the name of your video card. To detail the information in the "Iron" section, select the "Video" icon.



2. Then, in the right section, the utilities click on the "Video adapter" string and at the bottom we look at a very detailed report on the device, which is not inferior to the completeness of the data similar to the paid AIDA64.

Method 2: Device Manager

Using the built-in system tools Windows, you can find out the model of the installed video card, the driver version and some more data. But more detailed technical information about the device, unfortunately, will be unavailable.

1. Click "Start", then the icon with the gear "Computer Settings".



2. On the PC Parameters page in the lower left corner, we find the "Control Panel", which go.



3. From the list of all parameters, we need a section "Equipment and Sound".



4. In the next window in the "Device and Printers" block, select the Device Manager string. It contains short information about all modules integrated into the system.



5. In the device manager, click LKM on the triangle icon in the video "Video adapter". Now we see the name of the graphics accelerator.



6. Calling the context menu with the click of the right mouse button by the name of the video card and turning into "properties", you can see the minimum data on the device installed by the drivers, the connection connector.

As we found out, to obtain a short information about the video card with sufficiently standard WINDOVS 8 tools, and for more detailed analysis there are special programs. You can choose any of them based on personal preferences.