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Dell PowerEdge 1955 Video Card
At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. Dedicated video cards are required for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. There are two types of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. Both an integrated and dedicated video card computes and sends the rendered images to a monitor where it is displayed for you. Integrated display adapters are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, in general. Most new desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a graphics card to be installed on the motherboard.
Major clues of a poorly working video graphics card
- Your display depicts weird colors or images
- The desktop reboots when beginning a game
- Nothing seems to come on as you boot the PC
- The video card driver has problems installing correctly
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