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Lenovo ThinkCentre 8090 Video Card
There are really only two kinds of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. All video cards computes and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where it is displayed for you. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Integrated display adapters are not as good as a dedicated video card, in general. A dedicated graphics card is pretty much required for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Overwatch, Battlefield or Far Cry. Almost all newer desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a video card to be installed on the motherboard.
Main clues the display adapter is in dire straights
- Your display displays fragmented images
- The desktop freezes when starting a graphic intensive program
- The screen does not always come on when booting up
- The video card driver fails to install properly
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