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Lenovo ThinkCentre 3034 Video Card
Integrated video cards will never be better than dedicated graphic cards, in general. Most newer computers should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a video card to be installed on the motherboard. A dedicated graphics card is typically a required piece of hardware for high-end games on the desktop like Battlefield, Fortnite or Far Cry. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. A graphics card computes and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where you can see the results. Today, nVidia rules the dedicated card market, while AMD is in second.
Cues of a weak display card
- The monitor shows nothing
- The computer freezes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to turn on as you boot the PC
- A driver for the video card has issues installing like it should
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