Noob install question

[Old Wino]

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[Tonester0011]

I do that all the time, download the latests and install them when you slap in the new card, should be good to go.

 

[Old Wino]

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[Orangey]

I know with AMD you pretty much have to uninstall the drivers. Not sure about NV...

Afterburner might kick up a fuss if you have some fancy settings.

 

[Tonester0011]

Never bothered with AMD either. 90% of the time windows finds my drivers and automatically installs, auto restarts and bang the dirt is gone.

 

[Ian Evey]

Before slamming it in, you might need to whack on the latest Motherboard Bios as it may not recognise the silcone being inserted ( 780 ).

Then as long as you Ram home the pci-e cables you should be hunky dorey

 

[Gregster]

wunderbar Mr Tonester, may your seed swell in the belly of your woman sir..

Proper lol

But yer, pop it in and attach cables and Bob is your uncle

 

[Fire_fly]

I would use DDU (display Driver uninstaller) to remove the old drivers first. Then put the new card in and install new drivers.

The whole process should only take about 10min so worth doing just to be on the safe side.

 

[foster grant]

I would use Display Driver Uninstaller but only if I'm changing from AMD to Nvidia or the other way round...and it takes just a few minutes too

 

[r7slayer]

Yea but little less of the tearing, ripping, and slamming. Those antics should be left for the bedroom. Your pc likes you to be gentle with it, kiss it and caress it. Then it will love you long long time!

 

[mrham4321]

If you're really bothered you can remove the drivers totally and redo them, but if the card is a similar series then that isn't necessary a lot of the time.