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Installing a New Graphics Card

Sebas3702
By Sebas3702
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Hi, right now In my PC I have a GTX 1060 and am planning on buying an RTX 2060 super to replace it. Now when I first built my PC, I got my friend to help, and by "help" I mean he did probably most to all of the work for me, so I myself have very little experience with installing and adding in these new parts so now when it comes to upgrading my graphics card I am wondering what to look out for. Right now my plan is to just power down the PC, unplug it, pull out the wires from the power supply, pull out the old card, plug in the new one, and plug back in the wires from the power supply. Now when looking more into this I was told about having to uninstall the previous drivers because I would face issues from it later on, so I was wondering if installing another NVIDIA card would also have this issue or it wouldn't because they are using the same software?

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You need to uninstall old video drivers (with DDU) and reinstall it when you get a different GPU regardless of whether it's the same version.

 

but make sure the PSU has enough power connectors for the 2060S

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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As long as your OS is a properly updated Windows 10, you concern is not necessary.

Microsoft has coded a basic graphics driver:  if the driver isn't compatible with your new hardware(graphic card), or even the driver is lacking at all, either of your old or new card can still output video signal as "Microsoft Basic Display Adapter".

The most hassle free solution for you is to install Geforce Experience and has it automictically detect the properly driver to be installed

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