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Apple Power Macintosh 8100-80AV Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is usually necessary for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. Integrated, or onboard, graphics will never be better than a separate video card, generally speaking. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. Most newer computers will have at least one spot available for a video card to be added to the system. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. Both an integrated and dedicated video card processes the input and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you.
Easy warnings of a barely functioning graphics card
- The graphics on your screen displays colors that are all wrong
- The desktop crashes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- The screen does not always turn on when booting up
- The video card driver does not seem to install properly
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