91.   Samsung compromised by building a display that would work with millions of existing video cards, at the cost of somewhat lower performance.

92.   Should I buy a faster chip, more memory, a faster video card, a larger hard drive or a faster modem?

93.   Shopping for a video card can be confusing for many reasons.

94.   Several wrote to complain that my choice of a video card for those who like to play games was, well, pretty lame.

95.   So I left the old video card in the machine.

96.   So that left me with the option of opening up the computer to look on the video card itself or tear into still another box of computer stuff.

97.   So if you speed up the processor, you probably will need to buy a faster hard drive or video card to take advantage of the faster processor.

98.   Some of my readers wrote to complain that my choice of a video card for those who like to play games was, well, pretty lame.

99.   Some video cards may even need to be fooled into thinking the monitor is an entirely different brand.

100.   So I popped over to the Web site for Matrox, downloaded the drivers for my video card and was back in business.