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Dell OptiPlex 210L Video Card
Integrated display adapters are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, generally speaking. Dedicated video cards are typically a required piece of hardware for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. Almost all newer desktops will have at least one spot available for a dedicated video card to be added to the system. At the moment, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Both an integrated and dedicated video card processes graphics and sends the rendered images to a monitor where it is displayed for you. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated cards are built-in to the computer itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed.
What symptoms are present when the graphics card needs to be replaced?
- The monitor shows colors that are all wrong
- The PC restarts when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- The screen does not always show up when starting up
- The video card driver does not seem to install correctly
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