Alright, so you’ve just bought your first computer and are eager to join your fellow friends and family in the modern, digital age. You can’t believe the deal you got on the setup: a complete system, with tower, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and monitor, and all yours for the low, low price of $499, just like it was advertised on television. But to cap it off, your new system comes with an Intel Pentium 4 processor for “all of today’s multimedia and gaming needs.”

A few days later, your PC is delivered to your home and with much anticipation, you take it out and set it up. Now is the moment you’ve been waiting for! You see, part of your reason for ordering a new pc was because your friend had let you play a few rounds of Unreal Tournament 2003 on his home pc, in all its frag-a-licious glory. You couldn’t wait to join in the fun on your own system. Now you rip open your own, brand new copy and fire up the game. But what’s wrong? Why is the game so s-l-o-w? On your friend’s computer, the game looked and played like a dream. But on your system, the game is incredibly choppy (sometimes almost like a slideshow) and no fun to play at all. So after a call to tech. support, you learn that your computer came with integrated graphics, and if you want to do some serious gaming you will need to purchase a separate video card.