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Lenovo ThinkCentre 3318 Video Card
Both an integrated and dedicated video card computes and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you. Integrated, or onboard, graphics will never be better than a separate video card, generally speaking. There are two types of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated graphics are integrated into the motherboard itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. A dedicated graphics card is usually necessary for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Battlefield, Fortnite or Far Cry. Today, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. Almost all newer desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a video card to be installed on the motherboard.
Important signs your display card should need replacing
- The monitor produces nothing
- The desktop crashes when starting a game
- Nothing seems to come on when starting the computer
- A driver for the video card cannot install all the way
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