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adamofgreyskull

I currently have two Geforce GTX550 Ti cards installed and have bought a single Radeon HD7870 to replace them. Do I need to do anything special to change over? Or just remove NVidia drivers, reboot, install new card, install radeon drivers?

1 decade ago*

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Jerzayl

Pretty straight forward, yeah.

1 decade ago
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xxmodzz

i think you got it right, don't take my word for it though.

1 decade ago
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Solnaga

Unless you have a really dumb mobo I believe that's it :)

1 decade ago
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adamofgreyskull

Thanks guys, will see how I go tonight! :)

1 decade ago
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HillaryClinton

You really want to use this after removing the drivers, you don't want to run into conflicting driver issues because of little tid bits left over.

"The best way to clean drivers is to first uninstall the drivers using the official uninstallers, reboot in Safe Mode and run Guru3D - Driver Sweeper. However, rebooting and not going into Safe Mode also works, but can cause some files not to be cleaned."

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adamofgreyskull

Wow, can't believe how easy that was...

(The configuration side of things anyway, I had to move half my PC around to accommodate the Radeon card...Christ in a crucifix shop, that was a mission...)

1 decade ago
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Sly34me

I hope you mean the components and not the actual PC; you didn't cut it in half, right? :P

It's always good to have the cables behind the side-panel if your case has the ability to do as such, which almost all do these days. It makes the computer run cooler if you're using fans and it looks 'nicer' if someone happens to randomly want to look into your PC I guess... It won't have too much of a temperature difference if you're using water cooling though.

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adamofgreyskull

I hope you mean the components and not the actual PC; you didn't cut it in half, right? :P
haha, yeah, nah, just moved a couple of hard drives out of the way, then had to move my DVD burner down so the power cord would reach it...

The problem is, I have a v1 Antec 900 and it doesn't have a hole through to behind the mobo tray next to the PSU. There are cutouts beside the SATA ports so I route those behind the tray and hide any cables I don't need behind there too (no modular PSU). It certainly doesn't have those sexy black rubber grommets to protect cables or a CPU cutout for watercooling. :)

The PSU also has to be mounted with the air-intake up, drawing in warm air from the case because there's no airflow underneath, which also means the power cables come out next to the wrong side of the case... :/ Next purchase (a while away now) will have to be a modern full tower. :)

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