What exactly is a nouns card???

I know single very essentially what it does.i know my way around a computer pretty handy but what when it comes to what things do etc i am pretty clueless.i want to return with a laptop soon enough and would resembling to find out more about computers and what the foremost things to look for are and what they do.can anyone tell me exactly and within simple terms what a nouns card is and does.also if anyone has any links to page that would help me take in better the basic workings of a computer,what does what etc.cheers everyone

What exactly is a nouns card???

Soundcard... similar to the Ronseal adverts, does exactly what it say on the box.



The soundcard carries a (simple) synthesizer on it that turns computer instructions into billow forms (sounds) and amplifies them for output to speakers. More upmarket ones enjoy more features that mean the computer instructions they adopt have fancier results... approaching having record violin waveforms... and can handle more channel and so on, but the idea remains one and the same.



In a laptop 'soundcard' is a misnomer... the synthesizer chipset is soldered onto the main board and can't be replaced. It's not a separate card that plugs into an adapter.