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Apple Power Macintosh 8200 Video Card
Today, nVidia rules the dedicated video 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 Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. Integrated display adapters are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, generally speaking. Both an integrated and dedicated video card computes and renders images to the monitor where you can see the results. Most newer computers should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a dedicated video card to be added to the system. There are really only two kinds of video 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.
Easy warnings of a worsening video graphics card
- The graphics on your screen produces lines
- The PC crashes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to turn on when booting up
- A driver for the video card has issues installing correctly
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