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Lenovo ThinkCentre 8198 Video Card
Dedicated video cards are typically a required piece of hardware for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Battlefield, Fortnite or Far Cry. There are really only two kinds of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated cards are built-in to the computer itself, whilst a dedicated card is purchased and installed onto the main board. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, in general. All video cards computes and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you. Most newer computers should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a dedicated video card to be added to the system. Currently, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second.
What warnings are present when my desktop video card is about to go out?
- The monitor shows weird colors or images
- Your Lenovo reboots when starting a graphic intensive program
- Nothing seems to come on as you boot the PC
- A driver for the video card has issues installing properly
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