I recently bought a GTX680 and will be upgrading from my old GTX460 soon. I was wondering what steps to take to do this safely.
I’m using the “Nvidia Experience” program which automatically updates to the latest drivers (among other things), so I’m wondering whether I can just switch cards, start Nvidia Experience and it’ll download the correct drivers for my new card? Or should I completely uninstall all drivers and everything Nvidia-related before switching cards?
I’ve read that uninstalling drivers before switching is often recommended, but since they’re both fairly new Nvidia cards I’d like to know what you think.
Thanks
Answer
The nvidia driver is the ‘same’ across those generations of video cards – or even older ones back until the 8000 series. I’d suggest simply swapping the cards and seeing if everything worked properly. If you have any issues, you can always go into safe mode.
In addition, newer versions of windows ( at least 7 and 8 do, but this might include vista) very happily will run dissimilar video cards with different drivers as video outputs. Its extremely unlikely you will have any driver conflicts, or any problems at all.
If you were switching from nvidia to AMD or vice versa, then uninstalling pre-switching would be useful.
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