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Lenovo ThinkCentre 9282 Video Card
Currently, nVidia rules the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Integrated, or onboard, graphics will never be better than a separate video card, in general. All video cards computes and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you. Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a video card to be installed on the motherboard. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. An integrated graphic card is built-in to the main board, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. Dedicated video cards are usually necessary for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield.
Clues to watch for to know your desktop graphics card will need to be replaced
- The monitor displays lines
- The computer freezes when starting a game
- Nothing seems to come on as you attempt to boot up
- A driver for the video card cannot install fully
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