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Acer Altos R300 Video Card
There are two types of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. Integrated video cards are not as good as a separate video card, generally speaking. Dedicated video cards are necessary for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Overwatch, Battlefield or Far Cry. Currently, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Most new desktops will have at least one spot available for a graphics card to be installed. Both an integrated and dedicated video card computes and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results.
Symptoms the video graphics card is in dire straights
- The graphics on your screen depicts colors that are all wrong
- The computer freezes when starting a graphic intensive program
- Nothing seems to turn on when starting up
- The driver has problems installing properly
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