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Acer Veriton 3500 Video Card
Integrated, or onboard, graphics will never be better than dedicated graphic cards, in general. There are two types of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated cards are built-in to the computer itself, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. Dedicated video cards are pretty much required for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. All video cards computes and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where you can see the results. Almost all newer desktops will have at least one spot available for a video card to be added to the system. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place.
What are the indications that my video graphics card is almost going bad?
- Your display displays stretched or elongated pictures
- The desktop crashes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to show up when starting the computer
- A driver for the video card does not seem to install all the way
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