Fall Graphics Card Upgrade Guide

After seeing the recommended PC specifications for Crysis, I’m convinced more than ever that I need to upgrade to be able to enjoy the best new PC games coming out this Christmas. From the site that brought PC gamers the CPU Upgrade Guide comes the next article in the series ExtremeTech’s Fall Graphics Card Upgrade Guide. The guide helps you find a comfortable balance between what you want, what you need and what you can actually afford.

There’s an old adage: “You can never have a fast enough graphics card.” Okay, so it’s not old. Graphics cards haven’t even been around that long. The point is, there’s a good argument to be made that you don’t buy graphics cards so much as rent them. No matter how fast the card you buy today is, at some point down the line, it’s not going to be fast enough, or have all the new whiz-bang features you want. The real question then is: How much disposable income do you have, and what are your needs?

Read the full article on ExtremeTech before you invest in that graphics card upgrade.