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Lenovo ThinkStation 4229 Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is required for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. Currently, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is sitting in second place. Most newer computers will have at least one PCIe slot open for a dedicated video card to be installed. There are two types of video cards, integrated and dedicated. An integrated graphic card is built-in to the main board, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. Integrated video cards are almost never as good as a separate video card, generally speaking. A video card processes graphics and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results.
Major clues of a weak display card
- The monitor depicts stretched or elongated pictures
- The PC crashes when starting a graphic intensive program
- Nothing seems to come on when booting up
- The driver has problems installing correctly
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