Do I need a video card?

For everyday applications running on your PC, the on-board graphics is perfectly adequate. On newer standard PC’s the video chips are integrated into the motherboard, so why would you need a new video card?
In most cases, this would be desirable if you are using some high-end action games with fast-moving detailed life-like graphics, or if you were involved in the production of detailed graphics or digital photography/video. For these types of tasks, most modern motherboards have an ‘Advanced Graphics Port’ – plugging a dedicated video/graphics card into this port frees up PC memory and speeds up graphics production.