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Hi everyone as you can see from the title I'm installing my new graphics card today a GTX 960 G1 Gaming and I was wondering what I need to do to prepare my system for the installation. I'm currently running integrated graphics off of my Pentium G3258 and I've read I need to uninstall the Intel graphics drivers, however I cannot find them in my programs list. If you guys could tell me what to do that would be great!

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Hi everyone as you can see from the title I'm installing my new graphics card today a GTX 960 G1 Gaming and I was wondering what I need to do to prepare my system for the installation. I'm currently running integrated graphics off of my Pentium G3258 and I've read I need to uninstall the Intel graphics drivers, however I cannot find them in my programs list. If you guys could tell me what to do that would be great!

Download a programm like Display Driver Uninstaller and you'll find it there

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Just install the card in the slot, connect the necessary power connectors, connect your video cable to the card, and start it up. Though beforehand, you may want to download the NVIDIA drivers - you'll deal with very low resolution otherwise on the web page.

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You need to turn off onboard graphics (this is in the bios) when you are about to put your 960 in, as for the drivers they shouldn't interfere if the onboard is off

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Just install the card in the slot, connect the necessary power connectors, connect your video cable to the card, and start it up. Though beforehand, you may want to download the NVIDIA drivers - you'll deal with very low resolution otherwise on the web page.

 

You need to turn off onboard graphics when you are about to put your 960 in, as for the drivers they shouldn't interfere if the onboard is off

 Cool thanks a lot, and I assume I find that option in my BIOS?

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 Cool thanks a lot, and I assume I find that option in my BIOS?

Yes, i edited my post to show that

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 Cool thanks a lot, and I assume I find that option in my BIOS?

You don't really need to disable the IGP. It should automatically detect the 960 and use that.

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Why are people making this complicated?

Download the drivers for the new GPU beforehand. Install it, plug the monitor into the new card.

You don't need to uninstall the iGPU drivers or disable it.

You used to have to disable the chip and remove the drivers in order to use a dedicated card. I have flashbacks. You guys don't know how good you have it LOL. OP, just plug in the card and download the drivers. Easy, pleasy

If anyone asks you never saw me.

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You need to turn off onboard graphics (this is in the bios) when you are about to put your 960 in, as for the drivers they shouldn't interfere if the onboard is off

You sure?!? I pretty much though that it doesn't really matter unless you leave the video cable to the motherboard output.

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You sure?!? I pretty much though that it doesn't really matter unless you leave the video cable to the motherboard output.

The onboard graphics will stay as the default otherwise in many cases, thus preventing the graphic processes from being directed to the gpu, making the 960 output nothing

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