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Dell Dimension 4500 Video Card
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. Today, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. 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. Most new desktops will have at least one spot available for a dedicated video card to be added to the system. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are almost never as good as a dedicated video card, in general. All video cards processes graphics and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you.
Cues of a bad display card
- The graphics on your screen depicts nothing
- The Dell Dimension 4500 crashes when starting a graphic intensive program
- The screen does not always come on when booting up
- The driver has issues installing like it should
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