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Dell OptiPlex 160 Video Card
Dedicated video cards are required for high-end games on the desktop like Battlefield, Fortnite or Far Cry. 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. Most new desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a dedicated video card to be installed on the motherboard. Integrated video cards are not as good as a dedicated video card, in general. A video card processes graphics and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is in second.
What symptoms are present when the display card really needs to be replaced?
- The graphics on your screen depicts bits and pieces of the desktop
- The PC reboots when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- The display does not turn on as you attempt to boot up
- A driver for the video card has problems installing fully
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