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Gateway Profile 6 Video Card
Integrated video cards will never be better than dedicated graphic cards, generally speaking. Today, nVidia rules the dedicated 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. Dedicated video cards are necessary for high-end games on the desktop like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. Most newer computers should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a video card to be added to the system. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated graphics are integrated into the motherboard itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed.
Indications the video card needs a replacement ASAP
- The monitor depicts stretched or elongated pictures
- Your Gateway freezes when starting a game
- The screen does not always show up as you boot the PC
- The driver cannot install all the way
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