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Lenovo ThinkCentre 3054 Video Card
A video card computes and sends the rendered images to a monitor where it is displayed for you. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are not as good as a separate video card, in general. There are really only two kinds of video cards, integrated and dedicated. An integrated graphic card is built-in to the main board, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. A dedicated graphics card is required for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Overwatch, Battlefield or Far Cry. Most newer computers should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a dedicated video card to be installed. Currently, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second.
Key indicators that my desktop video card is almost going bad?
- The graphics on your screen shows lines
- The computer crashes when starting a graphic intensive program
- The screen does not always turn on when booting up
- The driver has issues installing properly
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