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Lenovo ThinkCentre 3544 Video Card
Today, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. A dedicated graphics card is usually necessary for high-end games on the desktop like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are not as good as a dedicated video card, in general. All video cards processes graphics and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where it is displayed for you. There are two types 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. Most new desktops will have at least one spot available for a graphics card to be added to the system.
What symptoms are present when the graphics card is about to fail?
- The monitor produces nothing
- The Lenovo ThinkCentre 3544 restarts when starting a graphic intensive program
- Nothing seems to show up as you attempt to boot up
- The video card driver has problems installing like it should
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