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Lenovo ThinkCentre 3668 Video Card
All video cards processes the input and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. An integrated graphic card is built-in to the main board, whilst a dedicated card is purchased and installed onto the main board. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. Integrated display adapters are almost never as good as a dedicated video card, generally speaking. A dedicated graphics card is usually necessary for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. Most newer computers should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a dedicated video card to be installed.
Indications of a weak desktop video card
- The monitor depicts vertical or striped lines
- The computer restarts when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- Nothing seems to come on when starting up
- The video card driver fails to install all the way
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