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Apple Power Macintosh 7100 Video Card
Integrated video cards are almost never as good as dedicated graphic cards, generally speaking. Currently, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. A graphics card processes graphics and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where it is displayed for you. There are two types of graphic 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. Dedicated video cards are pretty much required for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Battlefield, Fortnite or Far Cry. Almost all newer desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a graphics card to be added to the system.
What are some indications that my desktop video card is almost going bad?
- The graphics on your screen produces fragmented images
- The computer reboots when starting a game
- The screen does not always come on when starting the computer
- The video card driver does not seem to install all the way
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