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Lenovo ThinkCentre 3238 Video Card
Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a graphics card to be installed. A dedicated graphics card is required for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. Both an integrated and dedicated video card processes graphics and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where it is displayed for you. At the moment, nVidia rules the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Integrated display adapters are almost never as good as a separate video card, in general. 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.
Major indications of an unhealthy graphics card
- The graphics on your screen depicts fragmented images
- The PC crashes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to turn on as you attempt to boot up
- The driver has problems installing like it should
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