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Lenovo ThinkCentre 9378 Video Card
Today, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is in second. A graphics card processes the input and renders images to the monitor where you can see the results. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are not as good as dedicated graphic cards, in general. A dedicated graphics card is pretty much required for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Battlefield, Fortnite or Far Cry. Most newer computers will have at least one PCIe slot open for a graphics card to be installed. There are two types of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated is built into the motherboard, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately.
Some warnings of a dying graphics card
- The graphics on your screen displays stretched or elongated pictures
- The desktop freezes when beginning a game
- Nothing seems to come on as you boot the PC
- The video card driver cannot install fully
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