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A friend has donated his old HD5870 to me, to replace my slightly worn GTX280.
I have two versions of windows (on my windows machine anyway, which is where the card is going), XP and 7(64).
Assuming that it is not possible to re-install the operating systems (PARTICULARLY not the XP, which is my Studio OS and therefore simply can not be changed on pain of costing my a fortune)..........what steps should I take before/during/after swapping the cards.
I'm quite looking forward to trying this card as I have often been told that my opinion of ATI cards is wrong (I think they idle too hot, boot up with a black screen too often and have terrible windows drivers and non-existent Linux drivers), and nothing pleases the scientist in me more than being proved wrong.........I especially hope the ATI-ists are telling the truth about higher anti-aliasing with less effort...I play a lot of train and racing car sims, AA is essential.
I am assuming that a driver cleaning program is required prior to shutting down and swapping the cards.??????
Thanks for any help.
PS: If you're planning on posting "no, windows really IS as bad as you Linux users think it is, it literally cannot have its hardware changed without a re-install"......keep walking, because it's absolutely NOT going to happen
PPS: Any advice regarding Ubuntu with this card would be gratefully received too, as I do like to maintain a working Linux on all my machines, even the windows ones......you never know when a second OS will save your bacon.
I have two versions of windows (on my windows machine anyway, which is where the card is going), XP and 7(64).
Assuming that it is not possible to re-install the operating systems (PARTICULARLY not the XP, which is my Studio OS and therefore simply can not be changed on pain of costing my a fortune)..........what steps should I take before/during/after swapping the cards.
I'm quite looking forward to trying this card as I have often been told that my opinion of ATI cards is wrong (I think they idle too hot, boot up with a black screen too often and have terrible windows drivers and non-existent Linux drivers), and nothing pleases the scientist in me more than being proved wrong.........I especially hope the ATI-ists are telling the truth about higher anti-aliasing with less effort...I play a lot of train and racing car sims, AA is essential.
I am assuming that a driver cleaning program is required prior to shutting down and swapping the cards.??????
Thanks for any help.
PS: If you're planning on posting "no, windows really IS as bad as you Linux users think it is, it literally cannot have its hardware changed without a re-install"......keep walking, because it's absolutely NOT going to happen
PPS: Any advice regarding Ubuntu with this card would be gratefully received too, as I do like to maintain a working Linux on all my machines, even the windows ones......you never know when a second OS will save your bacon.