Building a capable gaming PC relies on two primary components: the CPU and GPU (or graphics card, in common parlance). While having a powerful desktop CPU in your gaming rig is important, the latter ...

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 ...

Choosing the right graphics card is one of the most crucial steps in upgrading your computer—whether you're a gamer chasing high frame rates or a creator rendering 4K videos. A graphics card, or GPU, ...

We discuss retro gaming all the time here, but even so. A recent reference to "my XP gaming PC" over in the GESC random thoughts thread leads me to wonder: What is the minimal set of PC gaming ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. PC gaming without a graphics card is possible, but it's tough. You either need an integrated graphics solution, be it a built-in iGPU or an ...

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 ...

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Graphics card memory, or VRAM, has been a hot topic of discussion over the past few years because we're not really getting enough of it. It's crazy to think that 8 years ago, the GeForce GTX 1070 was ...

Last year I wrote about my PC gaming journey of finding an old graphics card of mine in my attic and then using it, in a rebuilt rig with mostly period-accurate hardware, to run a series of PC games ...