How to Upgrade PC Games

How to tell when you need a new graphics card, or CPU, or RAM, and what you need to know to upgrade.

PC gamers have got a pretty great thing going. Interesting, experimental indie games? Yup. The shiniest, most visually impressive versions of big-budget games? They get a lot of those, too.
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First, you upgrade your PC. Then, you fire up all the games that used to give your PC a hard time and obliterate them.
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I recently got a new laptop and still have my old desktop PC. What would I need to do to turn it into a gaming computer?
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Want your games to run faster and smoother? Try these tips and tricks before shelling out on a new graphics card or other hardware.
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Upgrading video cards and CPUs isn't the only way to squeeze out higher frame rates. Dig in to see how you can optimize your system by tweaking some of those cryptic in-game and graphics-related settings.