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Lenovo ThinkCentre 8199 Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is pretty much required for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. Currently, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are almost never as good as a dedicated video card, in general. Most new desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a video card to be added to the system. All video cards processes the input and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results.
Major clues of a faulty display adapter
- Your display shows vertical or striped lines
- The PC freezes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- The screen does not always turn on when starting the computer
- The video card driver cannot install like it should
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