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The popularity of computer gaming has intensified since its activity started 40 years ago. On the contrary the early games were incredibly old fashioned, today's games require the highest of computer power as game inventors push computer expertise to the limit by making the finest looking games ever created. Every computer gamer will know the struggle of getting the latest games to play on your PC, however this doesn't have to be the case. As the majority of gamers do not get is that the graphics card is by far the single most important element in your PC for playing games. The graphic card is around three times more important than the next essential component; the processor. This is in fact good information as you do not demand the fastest processor or ridiculous amounts of RAM in your computer. What you will need is a very good graphics card and you will have no problems playing the latest games at their highest graphics settings.

The complicated part is selecting a graphics card for your computer. There exist many different models with vastly different performance levels hitting almost every price range. As a general rule of thumb, the further you spend on a card the superior its output should be still this does not mean you will be getting the true value for your money. To get the best bang for the buck, you will need to review every card individually and find performance reviews to truly see how well those cards cope with the latest games {To go for the best buy, you have to do an intensive search on every card possible and their performance reviews to make sure your card cope with the latest game you want to go for.

Most computer manufacturers will try to lower costs by using cheap or even onboard graphics on their PCs while using superior specification processors to give the impression that you are purchasing a fast computer when in reality for computer gaming it will be near to useless. If you are looking to go for a PC with a decent graphics card from one of the top computer manufacturing firms you might have to shed out 2-3 times more money out of your pockets to get one of their basic models that is capable of playing the latest games at a required frame rate . It is possible to upgrade the graphic card of almost any PC if you feel that your card is not up to the job. The process hardly takes five minutes to complete and it unbelievably a simple task.

For certain reason there is a enormous misconception about graphics cards that have a great sum of memory e.g. 512MB, 1024MB etc having excellent performance levels. This is absolutely not the case and one of the primary tricks used by manufacturers to sell you low performing cards at a high price. The best procedure you can follow to determine graphics card performance is to look at performance reviews displaying frames per second in game tests as this will demonstrate you the true power of the card. For the beginner it is best to ignore all of the card specifications such as core, memory and shader speeds as they can be incredible misleading when comparing two cards. The main performance level is determined mostly by the chipset or real architecture of the card which is never really calculable unless you look at actual performance tests.

Hopefully that gives you a starting point to shield yourself from being mislead and even cheated out of a high performance gaming experience. Enjoy gaming at high resolutions with the graphics turned up to max.