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Acer Altos G320 Video Card
A dedicated graphics card is necessary for any high-end games you play on a desktop like Mass Effect, Grand Theft Auto or Battlefield. A graphics card computes and sends the rendered images to a monitor where it is displayed for you. Integrated display adapters are almost never as good as dedicated graphic cards, in general. Most new desktops will have at least one PCIe slot open for a graphics card to be installed on the motherboard. Currently, graphics card maker nVidia is the most popular in the dedicated video card market, while AMD is in second. There are really only two kinds 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.
Indications your display card should be replaced
- The graphics on your screen shows bits and pieces of the desktop
- The PC restarts when beginning a game
- The screen does not always come on when starting up
- A driver for the video card cannot install like it should
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