Until Vista, an application would, for example, use the GDI to draw a picture on the screen while GDI would use the hardware graphics accelerator to do the actual job.

直到Vista为止，应用程序使用GDI在屏幕上进行绘图，同时GDI使用硬件图形加速器来完成实际的工作。

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You'll need at least a 500-MHz Pentium III system and one of the more powerful graphics accelerator boards to run these, however.

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For games and video, look for a machine with a graphics accelerator.

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The chip is a graphics accelerator, a specialized supercomputer of sorts that handles the flood of data needed to create moving two- and three-dimensional images.

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