21. Graphics cards are the third-most-important performance-related component in a PC, after processors and memory. 22. Intel also announced new initiatives, in collaboration with other industry leaders, to define future standards for faster disk drives and graphics cards. 23. Instead, MMX is intended to improve the performance of basic, unmodified PCs that do not run graphics cards. 24. It will come with an AGP port for faster graphics, so you likely will want a new graphics card to take advantage of it. 25. Kwartler has developed modeling software that works on a Pentium-class PC with an inexpensive graphics card, thereby enabling communities to do planning on their own. 26. One of the hottest areas of competition in computing is in graphics cards. 27. One of the two most effective upgrades for a PC is a better graphics card. 28. Other important PC components include a hard drive, a graphics card, a monitor, fast serial and parallel ports, and a CD-ROM drive. 29. Racer will also appear for personal computers but will work only with those using a graphics accelerator card. 30. Since most new PCs have both kinds of slots, you can indeed use a PCI graphics card in a computer with an AGP slot. |