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Lenovo ThinkCentre 8094 Video Card
Integrated display adapters are not as good as a separate video card, generally speaking. Most newer computers will have at least one PCIe slot open for a graphics card to be installed. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Dedicated video cards are necessary for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. There are really only two kinds of video cards, integrated and dedicated. An integrated graphic card is built-in to the main board, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. A video card computes and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where you can see the results.
What are the indications that my display card is in need of replacing?
- The monitor produces stretched or elongated pictures
- The PC freezes when starting a graphic intensive program
- Nothing seems to show up when starting the computer
- A driver for the video card has issues installing properly
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