Top 5 Performance Video Cards by Gary Hendricks
This is a short list of the meanest, fastest and most powerful 3D video cards on the market today. If you own one of them, well - lucky you! XFX GeForce 7800 GTX The XFX GeForce 7800 GTX video card comes with a PCI Express interface, 256MB DDR3 video memory and supports a maximum resolution of... Powercolor Radeon X800 GT A leading manufacturer of video cards, Powercolor has come up with the Powercolor Radeon X800 GT card. ... Connect 3D Radeon X850 XT Platinum Built on the Radeon X850 XT graphics processor, the Connect 3D Radeon X850 XT Platinum is a PCI Express card that runs on...

What to Look for in a Video Card by John Gibb
The proper graphics card can help speed up almost any system by taking the responsibility of many visual functions, allowing the CPU to work more effectively in other areas. Let’s take a look at a few of the key features to look for in a graphics card. ... The more memory your video card has, the higher the resolution, and the larger the number of colors it can display. ... Now a days, you will have either a PCI or an AGP slot for your video card. ... If you’re just doing Excel spreadsheets you might not need to spend $500 on a video card, but if you have a 21” monitor and want to view...

How to Choose a Video Card by Gary Hendricks
Want to know what piece of technology is changing most rapidly in the world of computer? That's right - video cards. The rate at which video cards come out is simply mind boggling. We're looking at a whole plethora of video cards based on graphics processors from ATI and Nvidia. ... Complex Applications If you need to perform more complex tasks like 3D computer aided design or video editing, it will make more sense to go for a heavy duty card. ... Server If you're using your computer as a mail server, FTP server, print server, or even a game server, you definitely do not need a...

Dueling Duals: ATI Puts SLI into the CrossFire by Nicholas Spriggs
Let’s face it. In today’s modern world we like things fast. Fast cars, fast food, and especially fast computers. So when it comes to graphics on today’s PCs, we not only want them to look good, we also want them to perform as fast and as smooth as possible. ... If the slave card (the non-crossfire card) is of a lesser ability than the master card (the CrossFire card) it will automatically downgrade to the same ability of the slave. ... For example, owners of a Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition card can use any other card in the X800 series.

News for Pocket PC Video Fanatics by Damian Julien
I'm getting a bit tired of all the iPod coverage in the press recently, including my own iPod versus PDA article recently. This has just been tempered with excellent technology news for the Pocket PC video playback freaks among us. If you've spent most of your waking life waiting for videos to... Jason Cross reported on the ExtremeTech site that their new Radeon X1800 XT video card can quite possibly make ATI the king of the video encoder mountain. ... ATI has introduced GPU-acclerated video transcoding in its latest video card for digital media hounds.

Video Cards For Desktop Computers by Alan LeStourgeon
Purchasing a video card for your desktop should be considered as one of the first performance upgrades you can make to your existing computer. If you bought your computer as a complete unit from a retail outlet, or an online computer store, chances are that your computer only has an on-board... Graphics cards offer Super-Video output, TV-tuner inputs (for recording video for multimedia projects), and much more. ... The second thing that adds to the price of a graphics card is the amount of memory that the card has.

PC Gaming Video: Meeting the Demands by Phil Moyers
If you have an interest in playing PC games that were made at least in the past couple of years, you’ve probably seen the serious video demands these games now have. It’s not only that you need a fast system that can handle all of the information in today’s games, but you need a major... You should make sure you get your hands on at least a good AGP 8X video card with lots of video memory (256 megs) and you won’t know the difference. ... According to recent reviews, however, ATI’s newest top-level Radeon X800 series card is supposed to be better than nVidia’s most recently released...

How to Buy Computer Memory by Gary Hendricks
How do you know when to buy more memory for your computer? Or how much memory you'll need? If you can afford it, you should always buy as much memory as you can, since it boosts system performance. But not all of us need 1 GB of RAM - most home users need only about 512 MB of RAM. ... Don't be fooled by that fancy video card that says it'll deliver fantastic 3D graphics performance. ... Without sufficient memory, the video cards will still perform poorly even if they are the latest and greatest versions (the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro comes to mind).

About Notebooks Graphics Cards by Didier Pradel
There are two type of graphics chipsets for notebook : - the Integrated Graphics Processing Units : it's the cheaper one - the Dedicated GPU whish is powerful but expensive. Basically, it is well know that integrated cards stand no chance against real graphics chips, but for example Mobility... Most importantly, they get that name of dedicated graphics cards from the fact that they use exclusively dedicated Video Ram, ensuring smooth and snappy performance. ... These card feature more hardware support for advanced DirectX 9 and OpenGL 1.5 functions.

Dvico Fusion Dual HDTV DVB-T Tuner Review by John Applin
This is a PCI card which I purchased from The Glow Lounge to complete my Windows Media Center PC (for which I shall be writing a 'how to' at a later date) to place in my living room to take over from my dvd player, VCR, standard definition freeview tuner and hi-fi. ... Key Features Watch One Channel While Recording Another Watch DVB-T Digital TV Programs on Your PC Picture in Picture (PIP) & Multi-view Function Record TV programs to hard drive as DVD/ MPEG2 format Scheduled recording from Hibernation/Stand-by/PC-off mode Pause and replay live TV shows (Time-shifting function) Analog...