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Lenovo ThinkCentre 6073 Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is pretty much required for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. Most newer computers will have at least one spot available for a video card to be installed. A graphics card computes and sends the rendered images to a monitor where it is displayed for you. Integrated display adapters are not as good as a dedicated video card, in general. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated graphics are integrated into the motherboard itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. Today, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place.
What symptoms are present when the display adapter is about to go out?
- The monitor shows vertical or striped lines
- The desktop reboots when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- The screen does not always come on when starting up
- A driver for the video card has issues installing fully
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