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Lenovo ThinkCentre 1982 Video Card
Dedicated video cards are usually necessary 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. Integrated video cards are not as good as a dedicated video card, generally speaking. At the moment, nVidia rules the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Most new desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a dedicated video card to be installed. Both an integrated and dedicated video card processes graphics and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results.
Major signs of a barely functioning display card
- Your display shows stretched or elongated pictures
- The desktop crashes when starting a game
- Nothing seems to turn on when booting up
- The driver does not seem to install correctly
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