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Dell PowerEdge 1600SC Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is 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 PCIe slot open for a graphics card to be installed. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated cards are built-in to the computer itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. Both an integrated and dedicated video card computes and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where you can see the results. Currently, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is in second. Integrated video cards are almost never as good as a separate video card, generally speaking.
Clues the display adapter will need to be replaced
- The graphics on your screen shows stretched or elongated pictures
- Your Dell crashes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to come on as you boot the PC
- The video card driver has issues installing all the way
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