“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adding a new graphics card to a computer in your office takes just a few minutes. Installing the card is the easy part. Making sure that the card will work with the computer's current motherboard ...

There was a time when no PC could play a decent game unless it was outfitted with a discrete graphics processor. Today, most off-the-shelf desktop rigs—and nearly all notebook PCs—rely entirely on 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 ...

My daughter is starting to dabble in PC gaming and her interests have finally exceeded the old PC I had kicking around for media conversion duties. It is an Athlon x2 240 with 10GB of ram and a Radeon ...