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Sony PCV-RS220 Video Card
Dedicated video cards are required for most games you would play on a desktop computer like Far Cry, World of Warcraft or Battlefield. A graphics card processes graphics and sends the resulting images to an external monitor where it is displayed for you. Most new desktops should have at least one PCI Express slot available for a graphics card to be installed on the motherboard. There are really only two kinds of graphic 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. At the moment, nVidia rules the dedicated card market, while AMD is in second. Integrated video cards are almost never as good as a dedicated video card, in general.
Major clues the display adapter is not going to last much longer
- Your display produces vertical or striped lines
- Your Sony reboots when starting a graphic intensive program
- The display does not show up as you boot the PC
- A driver for the video card fails to install like it should
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