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Dell OptiPlex 9030 Video Card
At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. There are really only two kinds of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated cards are built-in to the computer itself, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. Dedicated video cards are 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 video cards will never be better than a separate video card, in general. Almost all newer desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a video card to be added to the system. Both an integrated and dedicated video card computes and renders images to the monitor where you can see the results.
How do you know if your desktop video card is almost going bad?
- The graphics on your screen produces vertical or striped lines
- The computer restarts when starting a game
- The display does not show up when starting the computer
- The video card driver does not seem to install correctly
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