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Lenovo ThinkCentre A50 Video Card
Currently, nVidia rules the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. All video cards processes the input and renders images to the monitor where it is displayed for you. Integrated video cards are not as good as a separate video card, generally speaking. Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a dedicated video card to be installed. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated graphics are integrated into the motherboard itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed. A dedicated graphics card is typically a required piece of hardware for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield.
Major symptoms of a defective video graphics card
- The monitor produces bits and pieces of the desktop
- The PC freezes when starting a game
- Nothing seems to come on when starting the computer
- The driver has problems installing fully
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