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Lenovo ThinkCentre 3429 Video Card
Dedicated video cards are typically a required piece of hardware for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Overwatch, Battlefield or Far Cry. A graphics card computes and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results. Today, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is in second. 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. Most newer computers will have at least one spot available for a dedicated video card to be installed on the motherboard. Integrated display adapters are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, in general.
Subtle cues of an unhealthy video graphics card
- Your display displays nothing
- The PC crashes when starting a game
- The screen does not always show up as you boot the PC
- The driver has problems installing like it should
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