Swapping Video Cards

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Farrsolo

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Hello Everyone,

First post here, and it should be a fairly easy solution.
Current PC specs:
I have an Antec three hundred two case
ASUS P8Z68 MB
i7 2600k
GTX 560Ti
650W Power Supply
16GB RAM

I may become the holder of a GTX 670 through a deal.

question 1- is it worth changing to GTX 670 from the GTX 560Ti
question 2-can my pc handle the GTX 670?
question 3-can the card just be swapped when pc is shutdown? is there
procedures for this type of action to prevent any sort of errors
arising?

is there anything else I should be weary of when doing this?

Thanks!

Farr
 
1. Yes it would be a very good upgrade.
2. What's your PSU brand as that will tell us.
3. Shut down computer, unplug computer from wall, swap cards, boot back up and install the latest drivers. I'm not positive but those cards may share drivers. To be safe you could do a clean wipe of video drivers before you change the cards then when you boot back up with the 670, do a clean reinstall.
 
My power supply make is Corsair, I don't have a part #, can get it later tonight,

I checked, they share the same drivers, should I still uninstall them or would keeping them installed be a quicker switch over?

Thanks!
 
you might not have to uninstall the drivers but it's not that hard to do and it could save the headache later if there are problems. Just uninstall the drivers, reboot and switch the cards and install the latest drivers.
 
Denther said:
1. Yes it would be a very good upgrade.
2. What's your PSU brand as that will tell us.
3. Shut down computer, unplug computer from wall, swap cards, boot back up and install the latest drivers. I'm not positive but those cards may share drivers. To be safe you could do a clean wipe of video drivers before you change the cards then when you boot back up with the 670, do a clean reinstall.
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This but do a clean install and leave the computer plugged in and off at the wall and PSU switch (maintains the earth).

Unistall the nvidida drivers normally and then restart. Use driver sweeper to clean up any remnants of the nvidia drivers.

Shut down.

Change the gpu.

Start up, install latest drivers. Restart.

You may want to consider leaving the 560 installed and dedicating it to physx.
 
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