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Acer Aspire T160 Video Card
At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a video card to be installed. Both an integrated and dedicated video card processes graphics and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where you can see the results. Dedicated video cards are usually necessary for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Battlefield, Fortnite or Far Cry. There are really only two kinds of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated graphics are integrated into the motherboard itself, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. Integrated video cards will never be better than a separate video card, generally speaking.
Major clues your display card has to be replaced
- Your display produces colors that are all wrong
- The PC restarts when starting a graphic intensive program
- Nothing seems to come on when starting the computer
- The video card driver fails to install all the way
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