Part 4: Video Card

This week I'm going to talk about Video Cards, and why they are, or aren't, an important thing for you to consider while building/buying/or upgrading your computer. If all you do is use word, Facebook, and play small flash games on the internet, chances are you don't really need to worry about your computers video card. However if you stream movies, edit photos/video, play graphics intensive video games, then you do need to seriously look into your graphics card. A graphics/video card, as you can probably deduce, handles all the graphics that your computer processes and displays. The more intense the graphic, the harder the graphics card has to work. The main reason people get the good graphics cards is so that they can play hardcore video games that require the power. I have made a previous post that goes more into details about graphics card producers and which to pick, so if you are trying to decide you should read that post as well. The average user can go out and acquire a decent video card, that will handle whatever they would need to do, for around $100. Sure it won't be able to handle great video editing or those high-end games (at least not on high settings) but it will increase the smoothness of movies and any other games you decide to play.