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Upgrading from AMD GPU to Nvidia GPU

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I currently have 2 AMD 7950s in Crossfire and have ordered a new Nvidia 980Ti to replace them (should arrive tomorrow so I'm pretty excited :)) but had a couple of questions.

The one thing I am worried about is uninstalling all the old AMD graphics card drivers so that nothing is left on my system so that when I install the new Nvidia drivers there won't be any conflicts or anything.

I know from upgrading my AMD graphics card drivers there is an option to remove ALL AMD software from the system. Is this all that is required or do you need to do anything else to make sure that all the AMD software is removed?

I'd rather not do a clean install of Windows 10 as I have everything configured how I would like it. So should I be safe doing all that and then just rebooting to make sure everything is removed then turning off my system installing the Nvidia GPU and then just installing the Nvidia drivers?
 
Yeah, tick that option, you can also try DDU from guru3d and see if it still finds any references to AMD, don't reboot with the AMD card still present as windows has a habit of trying to be too helpful and reinstall drivers if it finds what it thinks is "new" hardware
 
Ah. Awesome.

Thanks guys. I feel much better about installing the new GPU now. Just hope it turns up nice and early tomorrow so I can play around with it :).
 
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone. I downloaded that program, restarted in safe mode and uninstalled the drivers and shutdown. Took out the 2 old AMD GPUs and put the 980Ti in, started up and installed the Nvidia drivers and everything seems to be working perfectly.

Played a bit of Crysis 3 with the graphics ramped up at 1440p and it felt really smooth compared to my old graphics cards and it is so much quieter. Really pleased :) so thanks again.
 
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