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Acer Aspire X1700 Video Card
Dedicated video cards are typically a required piece of hardware for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. All video cards computes and renders images to the monitor where you can see the results. Almost all newer desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a dedicated video card to be installed on the motherboard. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. An integrated graphic card is built-in to the main board, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. Today, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. Integrated video cards will never be better than a dedicated video card, generally speaking.
Red flags your desktop graphics card will need replacing
- Your display shows nothing
- The computer freezes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to come on when starting up
- The driver fails to install correctly
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