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Dell Vostro 270 Video Card
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. A video card processes the input and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results. A dedicated graphics card is necessary for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Overwatch, Battlefield or Far Cry. At the moment, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Almost all newer desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a video card to be installed. Integrated display adapters are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, in general.
Key indicators that my display card is almost dead?
- The monitor shows nothing
- The computer restarts when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to show up when booting up
- A driver for the video card has issues installing like it should
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