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Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Video Card
Integrated video cards are almost never as good as dedicated graphic cards, generally speaking. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. Most new desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a video card to be installed. A graphics card computes and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you. Dedicated video cards are necessary for high-end games on the desktop like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield.
How do you know when your graphics card has to be replaced?
- The graphics on your screen produces vertical or striped lines
- The desktop crashes when beginning a game
- Nothing seems to show up when booting up
- The driver does not seem to install properly
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