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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Graphical rendering is one of the most processor-intensive tasks your computer undertakes. Creating a 3D graphic requires the computer to establish a wire frame of all the shapes, fill in the image ...

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 ...

If you have VHS tapes or laser discs, they may become unusable due to the potential failure of older playback devices. You can actually digitize the VHS tapes or laser discs by using a capture card ...

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 ...