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Lenovo ThinkCentre 4524 Video Card
Integrated video cards are not as good as a dedicated video card, generally speaking. There are really only two kinds of graphic 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. Today, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. A dedicated graphics card is typically a required piece of hardware for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Overwatch, Battlefield or Far Cry. All video cards processes graphics and sends the rendered images to a monitor where it is displayed for you. Most new desktops will have at least one spot available for a dedicated video card to be added to the system.
What happens when my graphics card is about to fail?
- Your display produces stretched or elongated pictures
- The PC crashes when beginning a game
- The screen does not always come on as you attempt to boot up
- A driver for the video card cannot install properly
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