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upgrading from amd to nvidia..

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louietsang

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well im finally upgrading my current card a hd5770 to a gtx780 sometime this week whenever it gets delivered.

anyways i hadnt done much in terms of pc upgrading in a long ass while. and was wondering what are the necessary steps in order to have a good clean install of drivers.

do uninstall all amd drivers first then uninstall the card, and install the new one? and go from there?

any specific software i need that can clean out the whole video drivers of my system, i prefer not to have to reformat and do everything from scratch.

thanks!
 
louietsang said:
well im finally upgrading my current card a hd5770 to a gtx780 sometime this week whenever it gets delivered.

anyways i hadnt done much in terms of pc upgrading in a long ass while. and was wondering what are the necessary steps in order to have a good clean install of drivers.

do uninstall all amd drivers first then uninstall the card, and install the new one? and go from there?

any specific software i need that can clean out the whole video drivers of my system, i prefer not to have to reformat and do everything from scratch.

thanks!
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I personally never have any problem with catalyst built-in uninstaller. You should be fine with it.

misterbobby said:
I hope you are not going to put a 780 with that cpu in your sig.
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Although the 1090T is not going to unlock the full potential of the 780, it's still capable of giving him a healthy boost in gaming performance with the 780.
 
You would benefit more from mantle with your system. IMO a 290/290x used save your money and get better performance with mantle enabled games.
 
mi7chy said:
Uninstall AMD driver, boot to safe mode, run latest version of DDU, power off after it reboots and swap GPUs, boot into normal mode and install Nvidia driver.

http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/
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I haven't seen anyone have the use for driver cleaner software like that for over 5 years.

Gone are the days of shitty driver uninstaller software and even shittier handling of the process by Windows XP. Even in the final days of XP you didn't need this crap.


OP, run the uninstaller, shutdown computer, pull old card, install new card, reboot and install new drivers. That is it. There is about a one in a million chance you would need software like this. For everything else, its a placebo to make you feel confident it was done right.

misterbobby said:
I hope you are not going to put a 780 with that cpu in your sig.
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I hope he is overclocking the shit out of that chip than what we are seeing in his sig. The IPC of the Thubans was only slightly behind that of the newer FX chips, but the FX chips could overclock almost a full ghz faster than where his current chip is at (3.2ghz). He may be wasting a bunch of potential with that card. That being said, if he gets a 780, he's already halfway through his next upgrade. :cool:
 
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David-Duc said:
I personally never have any problem with catalyst built-in uninstaller. You should be fine with it.


Although the 1090T is not going to unlock the full potential of the 780, it's still capable of giving him a healthy boost in gaming performance with the 780.
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Well of course it will give him a healthy boost since he is coming from a 5770. The point is that cpu is a massive limitation for a 780 and a much cheaper card would give him the same playable performance.
 
I just went from a hd 6670 to gtx 750 ti and the cat uninstaller still left 2 AMD/ ATI processes running in the background with a load of files still left in the windows directory.
I wound up just killing the processes in the task manager and deleting them all out by hand. Removing with a 3rd part uninstaller probably would have been easier but it wasn't difficult.
 
that's going to be a huge boost GTX 780 is a great gamers card.

Although, the CPU is like putting mayonnaise in a spray bottle.
 
Dudes, he said he wanted to upgrade to a 780. Don't pick on his decision. Maybe he's planning on upgrading the rest later.
 
well i didnt have a choice in my "upgrade" i won it free from a contest :) ... not gonna complain, i only play d3 and titanfall so its not like i was playing any hardcore graphically intense games.

but thanks to the tips for amd software removal process.
 
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