A single video card that supports a dual-monitor setup can handle running two screens at the same time: it is not necessary to have two video cards to run two monitors on one computer. Video cards ...

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 ...

It may be a necessity if you want to keep your budget in check.

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 ...

“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 ...

These days, video cards are virtually supercomputers. When they aren’t driving your screen, they are decoding video, crunching physics models, or processing large-language model algorithms. But it ...

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 ...