1BXxi.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024 × 4844 pixels) - Scaled (13. 82k6d.jpg (JPEG Image, 1269 × 654 pixels) How Graphics Cards Work" The images you see on your monitor are made of tiny dots called pixels.
At most common resolution settings, a screen displays over a million pixels, and the computer has to decide what to do with every one in order to create an image. To do this, it needs a translator -- something to take binary data from the CPU and turn it into a picture you can see. Understanding Chipsets: What is a Chipset, Anyway? - Gamers Nexus - Your hub for gaming hardware, news, PC builds, and reviews. Known for having the coolest-sounding naming scheme in computing, chipsets operate at the core of every build we do here at GN -- by this point, all of you know the basics: P67 is good, Z68 is better, X79 (SB-E) is expensive; the 970 is good, the 990X is great, and AM3+'s 990FX is expensive (sort of).
Great, so we have an idea of what to get relative to other chipsets, but that doesn't mean much. That's about as useful as knowing "DDR3 is better than DDR2," without truly knowing why.