�����A video card is can improve the performance of your PC. If you are considering buying a new PC because games don't run well on your system, maybe you should try a new video card. A video card will never make windows run faster or any other application, but most applications only require a 166MHz CPU. Games and other 3D generating programs will however run faster with a better video card.

����� The first you need to know is that there are video cards and then there are 3D accelerators. A video card only passes information from the CPU to your monitor, but a 3D accelerator can proccess information to liten the load of your CPU. 3D graphics require a lot of math to generate, this slows your processor down, but if you own a Voodoo 3 accelerator that can handle a billion operations a second your CPU can handle other things like sound, input, hard drive information, RAM, etc. while you video card produces the graphics.

�����The reverse is also true if you have a really fast CPU you may be able to live with a slow video card. This rarely happens. The bottom line is the new gmaes rely on a good video card to bring you realistic real time images at frames rate of 30fps (frames per second) with resolution of 600X800.