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Acer Aspire X1301 Video Card
All video cards computes and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, in general. Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a dedicated video card to be installed. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Dedicated video cards are necessary for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. An integrated graphic card is built-in to the main board, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed.
Easy warnings of a defective display adapter
- Your display displays fragmented images
- The computer freezes when starting a game
- The display does not come on as you attempt to boot up
- A driver for the video card cannot install all the way
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