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Lenovo 3000 9689 Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is typically a required piece of hardware for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. A video card processes graphics and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where you can see the results. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. Integrated video cards are almost never as good as a dedicated video card, in general. Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a video card to be installed. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place.
Major signs of a bad desktop video card
- Your display shows vertical or striped lines
- The Lenovo 3000 9689 crashes when starting a graphic intensive program
- The display does not show up as you attempt to boot up
- The video card driver has issues installing fully
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