Although AGP isn’t yet a dead technology for graphics cards, it’s rapidly moving on to the endangered list as PCI Express grows in popularity. Motherboards that support PCI Express have a large chunk of data bandwidth assigned to this new bus which is usually divided up into 20 lanes.
Of these 20 lanes, 16 are dedicated [...]
If one thing pushes you to upgrade your current PC, it is likely to be a new game. Absolutely nothing else stresses a PC quite as much as a modern game running with all the high quality settings turned on. You need a decent processor, plenty of memory and a fair amount of hard drive [...]
“Graphics! Get your luvverly graphics ‘ere… going cheap; 32MB of gigatexel rendering pleasure, just ‘alf a donkey to you, madam…”
The world of graphics cards is as fast moving as the frame rates of the latest 3D games. Keeping pace with all the latest developments can be tricky, as new technologies and boards come out almost [...]