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Lenovo ThinkCentre 8980 Video Card
A video card computes and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated graphics are integrated into the motherboard itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are not as good as a dedicated video card, generally speaking. Most newer computers will have at least one spot available for a dedicated video card to be added to the system. Today, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. A dedicated graphics card is typically a required piece of hardware for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield.
Elements of a deteriorating video graphics card
- The monitor shows weird colors or images
- The Lenovo ThinkCentre 8980 restarts when beginning a game
- The screen does not always come on when starting the computer
- The video card driver cannot install correctly
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