11.   But if you understand a couple of basic concepts, you should be able to grasp the numbers for graphics cards.

12.   Competitor nVidia set a blistering pace, putting out a new generation of graphics card every six months.

13.   Computer-game players know that a graphics card is a necessity to give a game a realistic look.

14.   Diamond, which is best known for high-speed video graphics cards and modems, is counting on HomeFree to help pull it out of the financial doldrums.

15.   Each graphics card has its own microprocessor and packs megabytes of its own memory, arranged on a board the size of a graham cracker.

16.   Even the built-in graphics cards, the kind likely to be found in a budget computer, are adequate.

17.   Even without a camera, iVista acts a streaming media transmitter from your video-capture-enabled graphics card.

18.   For full-screen, full-motion video-playback capability, look for a graphics card with hardware-based MPEG support.

19.   For the same price, Apple added a better graphics card and more video memory, and made some other minor improvements.

20.   For years, home and office computers worked quite nicely without graphics cards.