Not all computers are designed the same way. Though two computers in your office may have on-board graphics chipsets, it may be that only one of them would take a video card. The devil is in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Integrated graphics is great for watching movies, browsing the web, or even a bit of Farmville, but if you want to play the latest games, you’ll need to install a discrete graphics card in your ...

When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...