In this video, I’m going to show you how to install the Sapphire Radeon nitro
RX 6600 XT gaming graphics card I’m going to show you how to prepare your system then
how to remove your old video card and graphics drivers if you did have one then show you how to
install the new video card and then the drivers to get you up and going so anyway let's get started
real quick so the first thing we're going to want to do is open up a browser and go to
wagnardsoft.com then click on the latest version available scroll down a little bit and then click
official download here and it's going to go ahead and download DDU the reason behind DDU
is to uninstall old video drivers now yes, Intel, AMD and video Matrox and whoever else does have an
uninstaller for their drivers which for the most part works but they're written kind of sloppy
they'll leave a lot of things behind causing issues with your brand new install and sometimes
it's not really their fault windows likes to hold on to drivers to make sure it doesn't cause issues
which can cause issues so DDU what it does is it goes into safe mode safe mode will not touch any
drivers it doesn't use drivers it uses everything basic, basic, basic, incredibly basic allowing you
to go in and remove old drivers perfectly everything from the registry to the folder
structure drivers everything is completely gone so that when you boot back into windows you have
a fresh canvas so you can install your drivers now there's one little switch inside of DDU which
will help you there because windows likes to go ahead and say hey i see you don't have any drivers
let me ruin your system i mean let me install brand new drivers and now we'll come over to
amd.com drivers and support scroll down a little tiny bit click on graphics AMI Radeon 6000 series
AMD Radeon 6600 series and finally AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT and click submit then depending on which
version of windows you'll go ahead and select that I’m running on 11 so I’ll select 11 and then I’ll
go ahead and click download now with all of that out of the way everything is in the downloads
folder so we'll go ahead and do is close this out well hold the left shift key right click on the
start button hover over shutdown or sign out and then click restart okay now on choose an option
we'll click troubleshoot advanced options and startup settings we'll go ahead and click restart
all right now under startup settings we have the option for number four which is enable safe
mode number five which is enable safe mode with networking and number six enable safe mode with
command prompt we can select any one of those three but to make it easier I’ll select number
four so in safe mode we'll go ahead and close out of this window then we'll go ahead and open
the file explorer we'll go to downloads so I’m going to go ahead and double click on DDU
which opens up this 7zip self-extracting archive I’m going to change the directory to c semicolon
backslash DDU and click extract okay so now if i come back to this pc, C, DDU, DDU again and
Display Driver Uninstaller we're going to go ahead and click ok under NVIDIA because that's what we
have right now we're just going to go ahead and select everything here even if you don't have
NVIDIA this is perfectly okay to select everything here under AMD specific if you have an AMD chipset
like i do in this particular system you're going to want to make sure just uncheck all of this if
you don't have an AMD system you can actually place checks everything here but again since i
have an AMD system I’m unchecking everything here to stay safe now the important thing i was talking
about before was under advanced options right here place a check under prevent downloads of drivers
from windows update when windows search for a driver for a device windows device installation
settings have been changed to not automatically install drivers windows does a lot of good things
a ton of good things it doesn't select drivers very well a lot of times the drivers it selects
are incredibly old which can and usually does cause issues with your game your application
even your operating system itself go figure right but don't let windows install the drivers for you
this is an incredibly important step to making sure your OS is perfectly smooth and your games
run well so then we'll go ahead and click ok here and then we'll click close here
now under here under select device type we'll select GPU so whether you're going from AMD to AMD
NVIDIA to NVIDIA intel to intel yes you will use this to remove the old drivers and install the
new drivers the old drivers you've installed, installed, installed, installed, installed,
installed several different layers of drivers over the years or months chances are there's
issues there so what this does it gets rid of all those potential issues and allows you to
have a clean slate to install drivers on it's a great idea again for great system performance
from here I’m going to go ahead and select clean and shut down because after we clean
it we're going to want to shut down the system so that we can remove the old video card and
install the new video card so again clean and shut down and this will only take a few seconds
now that the system's off first off we're going to go ahead and just flick the power switch on
the back of your power supply to make sure your system doesn't turn on while you're removing
the video card or installing the new video card and then we'll go ahead and disconnect the HDMI,
DVI, VGA, Displayport cable that may be plugged into your system before you touch anything
inside of your system i highly recommend ground yourself I’m not saying punish yourself for a
week you can't go out you can't talk your friends i mean get rid of all the ESD all the static in
your hands touch the inside of your system case not one of your components but the case itself
that way you get rid of any static in your hands wear an anti-static wrist strap grounded
of course that way there is no chance that you could potentially zap one of your components
now before we remove the video card we're going to need to disconnect the PCIE cables
for most NVIDIA cards the PCIE locking mechanism is on the bottom and for most AMD cards
the locking mechanism is on the top so in order to remove this
we'll go ahead and apply pressure right at the very end here which disconnects the card
from the locking mechanism on the PCIE connection and then we'll go ahead and
repeat that same process on your previous card so then that's disconnected at this point if
you have any sort of anti-sag mechanism you can go ahead and remove that since
we're getting rid of this card and then we'll go ahead and unscrew the video card
now on the very last screw you'll want to
just place your hand on the card so just in case it doesn't fall out now at this point most of you
will just want to pull the video card out but you can't there's a little locking mechanism right
over here which locks the entire card into place again holding the card up so it doesn't fall out
you can either use your finger pushing it in or if you can't you can maybe gently use the head of a
screwdriver push it down which will go ahead and push the video card out slightly and then you can
pull the video card out that little locking mechanism locks right on here
keeping the card nice and secure and now with the video card removed we're going to go ahead
and line up these PCIE fingers with this PCIE slot and then realize when we slide this card in
this little locking retention mechanism is going to go ahead and pop up and you might even hear a
little click sound in your case if this is out just go ahead push it down to unlock it we're
also going to be lining up the front of the video card with the two slots right over here
and we'll go ahead slide it right in here and then again just notice that locking mechanism
now it snapped right into place and then while holding the card
you want to screw in the screw here to keep the card in place okay now if you remember i mentioned
that there was a locking mechanism on the top over here now you'll see that right over here before
the locking mechanism was on the bottom so we'll have to go ahead and flip it over so the little
locking mechanism will be up here at the top and then we'll go ahead and just match up those pins
slide it in place and that little locking mechanism locks right into place so that that PCIE
connection doesn't come loose and now that we have the card in place we'll go ahead and connect HDMI,
DP, whatever connection for video onto the video card not onto the motherboard and then
flick the power switch on so that now you can turn on your computer and you
will have power turning on the computer will go straight into windows so then at this point
the drivers won't install themselves automatically because we told DDU to tell windows hey let me do
it you don't do it so then we'll come over here to file explorer then we'll come to downloads
then right here we'll double click on the video driver we downloaded and then install
you can go ahead and under additional options select full install and factory reset so that's
AMD's built-in uninstaller as we mentioned before we don't want to use that one alone but since we
used DDU to make sure everything's safe we'll go ahead and take that extra step to make sure
that AMD removes all of its own stuff as well if there's anything behind but DDU typically does
a good job this will only take a few more seconds and again it can potentially save
you a lot more time in the future in case you're trying to diagnose an issue caused by your drivers
and then we'll click install so this will go ahead and reboot come into windows before windows has
its clutches on the drivers remove it and then install the new one so we'll click restart now
and now it picks up where it left off and starts doing its thing
i always like to uncheck allow AMD to collect anonymous usage information
nothing against a and d but just don't want anybody to have it then i click restart
okay so now we are in windows all the drivers installed perfectly uninstalled
perfectly everything's gold so we can click on start all apps and then AMD Radeon software
from here we can go through the quick setup or skip this I’ll choose skip this for now definitely
a good idea to go through the tour if you've never used it before but now we can take advantage of
the entire software suite AMD provides we can launch a game last game played media captured
i use this a lot to capture video when I’m on an AMD system and it actually does not take a huge
hit on system performance maybe about five or six frames per second off gaming now this is going to
scan our system for all the games we have and then if we allow it to it's going to put all its own
settings in for optimal gaming performance any compatibility issues record and stream you can
use the desktop recording live stream scene editor media performance so here we can see the metrics
do some overclocking some advisors and then coming over here we can see a lot more of the sub menus
in this video again I've taken you from removing your old video card now i use the 2080 might not
have been the best example going from a 2080 to a 6600 but it could have been any video card or no
video card at all you could have gone from onboard video even if this was a brand new install DDU
is actually a pretty good thing to do as well to get rid of some bad drivers you never know it can
cause an issue as well so I've taken you all the way from the very beginning to the very end where
now at this point you can install the game and get to playing because your system is all running
if you've come across any issues or have any questions please leave them down below i respond
to all your concerns your questions your comments so this is Iggy with ThisBytesForYou, showing you
how to install the Sapphire Radeon Nitro RX6600 XT gaming card, Iggy out, see you guys