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Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 3414 Video Card
Integrated video cards are not as good as a dedicated video card, in general. Today, nVidia rules the dedicated card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. All video cards processes the input and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where you can see the results. A dedicated graphics card is usually necessary for high-end games on the desktop like Battlefield, Fortnite or Far Cry. Most newer computers should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a dedicated video card to be installed on the motherboard. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated cards are built-in to the computer itself, while dedicated is a separarate piece of hardware that gets installed.
Simple indications of an unhealthy display card
- The graphics on your screen produces bits and pieces of the desktop
- Your Lenovo crashes when trying to start up a graphic intensive game
- The screen does not always come on when starting up
- A driver for the video card fails to install all the way
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