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Sony PCV-L600S Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is pretty much required for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Overwatch, Battlefield or Far Cry. There are really only two kinds of graphic cards, integrated and dedicated. Integrated graphics are integrated into the motherboard itself, while a dedicated graphics card is an individual piece of hardware that is bought and installed separately. Integrated, or onboard, graphics are almost never as good as dedicated graphic cards, generally speaking. Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a graphics card to be installed. At the moment, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated card market, while AMD is in second. Both an integrated and dedicated video card processes the input and sends the rendered images to a monitor where you can see the results.
Red flags of a laboring graphics card
- Your display produces lines
- The PC freezes when starting a graphic intensive program
- The screen does not always come on as you boot the PC
- A driver for the video card fails to install like it should
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