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Lenovo ThinkCentre 2988 Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is required for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated cards are built-in to the computer itself, whilst a dedicated card is purchased and installed onto the main board. Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a dedicated video card to be installed on the motherboard. Integrated video cards are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, in general. Today, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. A graphics card computes and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results.
Major warnings the display adapter will die soon
- The monitor displays colors that are all wrong
- The desktop crashes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to show up when starting up
- The video card driver cannot install fully
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