For gamers, a new video card has long been the king of upgrades. It began with the release of id Software's Quake, way back in 1996 -- while you could play it without a dedicated GPU, the shooter ...

Knowing what GPU you have can be confusing, especially if you're relying on an integrated graphics card. Here's how to check ...

Computer video cards process all the graphical data on the machine, including 3D rendering and video files. Though manufacturers primarily market them to computer gamers, video cards can also enhance ...

Here at the Strategist, we like to think of ourselves as crazy (in the good way) about the stuff we buy, but as much as we’d like to, we can’t try everything. Which is why we have People’s Choice, in ...

If you're a PC gamer, you know that upgrading your computer's video card will give you the best gaming performance boost. PCWorld argues, however, that a discrete graphics card belongs in most ...

Hooking up two video cards in a computer can provide you with the ability to use multiple displays and to run separate graphics-intensive tasks on each display without slowing down or crashing the ...

“Are you sure you want this?” the salesman asked me. It was the day before Christmas, and I was in a large electronics store looking to buy a video card for a computer I was assembling. The card was ...

In the olden days of the 1990s and early 2000s, PCs were big and videocards were small-ish add-in boards that blended in with other ISA, PCI and AGP cards. These days, however, videocards are big and ...

Our current crop of popular PC games has shown us that the video card has now become the most important component in a gaming system. The CPU and the video card used to be of equal importance in the ...

Those of us who lived through the time without meaning—otherwise known as the mid-1990s—understand the definition of “tease.” Game publishers of the day were suddenly and mysteriously quite capable of ...