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Alienware Aurora Video Card
At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. A dedicated graphics card is typically a required piece of hardware for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. Almost all newer desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a graphics card to be installed on the motherboard. Integrated video cards are almost never as good as a dedicated video card, generally speaking. There are really only two kinds of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated graphics are integrated into the motherboard itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. All video cards computes and sends the rendered images to a monitor where it is displayed for you.
Subtle hints your desktop graphics card needs replacing ASAP
- The monitor produces stretched or elongated pictures
- The PC crashes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to come on when starting the computer
- The video card driver cannot install properly
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