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If you're piecing together or giving a facelift to your gaming PC, the first shiny bit most people think about is the graphics card. It's no mystery why. Out of all the parts stuffed in a rig, the GPU ...

Building a capable gaming PC relies on two primary components: the CPU and GPU (or graphics card, in common parlance). While having a powerful desktop CPU in your gaming rig is important, the latter ...

If you’re buying a new GPU (graphics processing unit), you should definitely have an understanding of how it all works. Although the terms GPU and graphics card are often used interchangeably, ...

Whether you’ve been playing PC games for years or you’re building your first gaming PC, picking the right graphics card is probably one of the most consequential choices. It doesn’t help that now ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

GPD gives you a choice: MCIO connectivity or stronger integrated graphics?

A dedicated sound card in 2026 'sounds' ridiculous until you actually use one ...

Put me on the short list of people who can get excited about the humble, much-derided integrated GPU. Yes, most of them are afterthoughts, designed for office desktops and laptops that will spend most ...