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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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research the compatibility of your components carefully!

Video Modes

Running a display at its native resolution is essential for a good computing

experience, but the quality of your experience will also depend to some

extent on how well the video card, operating system, applications,

multimedia files, and Web sites you use support that resolution. These

resolutions are also known as video modes or display modes, and each one

has a shorthand name.

Memorizing every possible resolution isn’t the best use of your time (there

are a ton of resolutions out there), but it is a good idea to be familiar with the

ones you’re most likely to buy, see in the real world, or field questions about.

Table 17-2 shows some common display modes. Note that this leaves out

mobile devices.

Table 17-2 Typical Display Modes

eGPUs

Manufacturers have taken advantage of the blistering throughput of the latest

USB and Thunderbolt busses to create external graphics processing units

(eGPUs), standalone boxes with video cards for video processing and

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