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Installing a graphics card

Installing a graphics card

- Let's quit talking about all this monitor stuff and let's start installing some things. So what I'm going to do in this episode is I'm going to install this beautiful high-end graphics card into this system. Now there's a couple of things I want to talk about. So first of all, let's take a look at the business end of this card itself. Now you notice I've got a lot of different connectors on here. There is a lot of these cards where they will only use one connector by default. So you want to always try to use that one first. And every card's different. You want to do a little research on that or read the manual. So what I'm going to do is snap in the card. So notice, as long as I'm holding the outside of the card and staying away from metal parts, I don't have to worry about anti-static. I never use anti-static when I'm snapping in a card. So let's take a look inside here before we start snapping. Now…

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