Choosing The Right Graphics Card - A Buyers Guide by Harry Love
If you are a serious gamer or graphics designer, you know how important having a good video or graphics card is. For those that don’t know, your video card or graphics card is what renders the images to your computer. If you are upgrading or building your own computer, considering what your... Usually, the cooling system consists of an on-board fan attached to the card used to keep the card processing at the appropriate temperature. ... Choosing the graphics card that is right for you can be a daunting task for someone that doesn’t know much about computers or graphics cards.

Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX Review by Nicholas Spriggs
Nvidia has done it again, with it's newest video card, the geforce 7800 GTX. If money is no object and you demand the best, this is the video card for you. The 7800 GTX, which promises 600 MHz, 256 MB of 256-bit DDR3 memory and a graphics core clock speed of 430 MHz, is the absolute fastest... With over 200 GFLOP's of shading avaliable, Nvidia raises the bar, once again, on video card's graphics and performance. ... This is all in just one videocard, pair them up in SLI mode and you have the best video cards in terms of speed, stability and appearance.

Video Cards: Is AGP Dead? by Nathan Holsing
If you’ve been looking to upgrade your computer video card you’ve probably heard a great deal about PCI Express and SLI. Don’t run out and buy a new computer just yet and take that AGP motherboard you just threw away out of the trash. The truth is you can probably make some simple upgrades to... For more information on AGP video cards visit the Video Card review section of my website. ... A new video card will probably float you for at least another year, likely two if you get a top of the line card.

Capture Video Into Your Computer by Gary Hendricks
You've shot that wonderful video of your daughter's birthday. Now, how can you get it into the computer to do some snazzy editing and perhaps produce a VCD or two? If the video is on that MiniDV or Hi8 tape, how can you possibly move it out of there into the computer? ... If it is in digital format, which is increasingly popular these days, you will need to transfer the video to the computer using a Firewire card. ... These type of device is well suited for the following video editing scenarios: You have video shot by an analog camcorder and wish to convert it into a digital format.

A Review Of The ATI All-In-Wonder X600 Pro Graphics Card by Gary Hendricks
ATI has recently released a slew of PCI Express cards and this baby is one ‘wonder’ of a card. Traditionally, ATI All-In-Wonder cards combine all the features you need to enjoy TV and video games on your PC. Let’s see what features it has and what it is good for. ... However, given the ice performance for its price, it’s a good value card to buy. ... Shortcomings If you’re thinking if this card has shortcomings – well, one of them is certainly the average TV quality. ... But it is not the drop dead type of card that will give you the highest frame rates.

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. ... The big feuding video card brands have been ATI and nVidia for some time now, although nVidia is now basically leasing out their GeForce chipsets to other...

Video Game Testers: 3 Ways To Get More Game Testing Assignments by Hitoshi Jones
If you work as a freelance game tester, you already know that although each assignment can be very profitable, the trick is being able to keep a steady flow of new assignments coming in. To help make sure those game industry paychecks keep finding their way to your mailbox along with new titles... Also, include your website URL on your business card and along with all correspondence you have with game companies. ... To promote your site, visit other gaming review sites and blogs and leave constructive and useful comments on the posts there.

What Is Memory Card Speed? by Iggy Quazi
In a few short years since the launch of the first 4Mb flash memory card, the number of flash memory cards available for digital cameras and other devices has exploded with a number of different formats and speeds of memory card. It's no wonder the average person is totally baffled by this... Memory card speed is the card's performance with regard to how quickly data can be transferred to or from it. ... if you use a 12X flash card in a camera with a designed for a maximum of 8X speed, you'll be transferring data at the slower 8X speed.

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...

The XFX 6800 XTreme 256MB Video Card: An Inexpensive High-Performance Secret by Jason Busch
XFX supplies a wide variety of video cards and has significantly grown over the years. While XFX is currently selling the 7950 GX2, there is one particular video card which is a video diamond in the internet ruff of manufacturers. The XFX GeForce 6800 XTreme 256MB DDR3 is currently selling for... For about $250, you can have two video cards which in total, pump out approximately 45GB/s of memory bandwidth, 512MB of video card memory availability, and quad RAMDACs. ... The publicity of this high-performance card for so little money is surprisingly low on tech websites, but then again it...