Hello, this is the Provoked Prawn, and you've managed to get yourself a brand new graphics card,
you lucky devil you, and this is a tips and tricks video to talk to you about the
installation process for your brand new shiny graphics card, the things to do both before and
after the setup process to make the most of it, the simple setup process for how to install it,
and also tips in Windows for both optimizing both before and afterwards. In this video
I'm going to be using a number of different bits of hardware for demonstration purposes
and I'm mostly going to be showing off NVIDIA's graphics cards with the RTX lineup but you will
also find that these tips are also applicable to AMD cards as well. So obviously one of the
first things you want to do is get the graphics card out of the box before you even start there
though there will be some tips in a minute of things to do in Windows on your machine
with its previous graphics card in, in this video I'm assuming you have either a pre-built machine
or one that you built yourself a while back and you're looking for some tips on how to upgrade and
so I'm going to talk to you with that logic there. So we have the graphics card obviously the shiny
3090 you can see here you might have a different one but the process is roughly the same so don't
worry we're going to talk through one of the things to bear in mind is making sure that you're
well grounded you either have an anti-static mat or a wrist strap that you've grounded yourself or
that you've got your PC plugged into the wall but powered off but before we do any of that the first
thing I'd recommend is downloading display driver uninstaller. This is a free piece of software that
you can use on your machine to remove any remnants of your graphics drivers as they stand currently.
I'm assuming that because you've bought a new graphics card you're upgrading from an older model
a previous generation either NVIDIA or AMD and maybe you're switching to AMD from NVIDIA or
vice versa and you're moving between the different manufacturers and going through to a new level so
the best thing to do is to use this tool to remove any remnants of previous drivers, you might have
multiple installations over time and this will delete all those drivers from your machine.
What this means is it cleans things up so that when you go about the process of installing new
graphics drivers you're getting the cleanest possible install there's no conflicts and
everything will run really smoothly. You can see from the various options in here that you
can set it to remove everything including all the physics files, previous backups and other
things like that. You'll also see some warnings that you should use this in safe mode it really
depends on the situation if you're finding that you're having particular problems with
the graphics card installation it might be worth booting into safe mode and using DDU,
however I found that for the most part you can just use it in Windows and you can set it to
remove what you want to, so you can see that you can select what type we've got so we're
selecting GPU and NVIDIA from here because I'm removing an NVIDIA GPU and installing a new one
and there's an option for clean and shut down for the case of installing a new graphics card on
the left there and you'll see that so once you've gone through this process obviously it's going to
delete all the files off of there all the drivers will be removed and then it's going to shut
down the PC. When you're at that stage you then obviously then need to remove all the cables from
the PC take your HDMI DisplayPort cables out of the original graphics card that's already in there
and make sure everything else is disconnected and that it's not plugged in and turned on
at the mains because obviously you don't want to get electrocuted while doing that take off
the side panel and remove the power cables for the graphics card we're just disconnecting them from
the right hand side and you can see them loosely over here we're not going to take them out the
back of the case obviously because we're going to need them for the new graphics card and then we're
going to remove the screws from the left hand side this setup is going to vary from case to case
in some cases you'll find these are just thumb screws that holding it in place in others as
you can see here you require a screwdriver there's usually just two required on the back plate which
will keep it in place. This helps with sag so it's really important to install these and make sure
that the graphics card is secured well in place and obviously we're going through the removal of
the original one here so this is a 1070 Ti GTX graphics card that I'm removing from this case
once you've got it unscrewed it's now in a position where you can remove it now what
you will find is there is a little clip and the top PCIe slot on your motherboard here's
an example of one outside of a case but you can see the little clip here you basically
need to push that down in order to disengage it and that will then free up the graphics card.
There's a button on this motherboard that lets you press it and release that but for most older
ones you'll need to get behind there and push that down it can be a bit fiddly but once you've
done it you can then pull the graphics card out. If you find it won't come out and it's just hard
to remove that's because that clip hasn't been pushed down properly you'll need to get something
in there hopefully your finger to push that down. It's worth noting that installing your graphics
card you should always try and use the top slot on your motherboard the very top PCIe x16 slot
because that usually has the fastest speeds and ensures the graphics card will run as it should.
So now I've reinstalled a new graphics card in this case it's a 3060 Ti but you obviously have
seen there are other options and I am once again installing it here this time with thumb screws
so this case that I'm demonstrating with b-roll here has some thumb screws that hold it in place
but again we need to make sure that these are secured down this will hold the graphics card
in place. Now with the 3060, the founders edition card there's a special adapter for the cables so
you can see the multi-pin power cables here those plug in via an adapter but you can see there are
several pins that need connecting and I have some power cables that I've already run from the
back of my case that are there with the previous graphics card that was installed now the number of
pins will vary you'll find for example I only need one lot of connections here from the PCIe power
connections but some other graphics cards require a bit more. Now hopefully if you built this case
or you had it pre-built for you should have a selection of other cables you'll see the cables
that you need here essentially they usually have one type four connection on one side and they'll
either be marked type four or PCIe and then on the other end you'll find two lots of connectors
and they are generally split so you'll find them coming in a with six pins and then two extra pins
as well so you can basically have two lots of eight pins on one end. They will plug in on
the power supply unit to the PCIe connections so you'll see them marked on these two Corsair power
supply unit for example and they're marked as PCIe connection so you need to make sure they're
plugged in there. Now the reason I'm mentioning this is because you might find that your newer
graphics card requires more power than the previous one so you might need to find a cable,
if you haven't got the cables no fret because you can get cable kits for example this pro PS2 cable
kit from Corsair includes a multitude of fancy cables as well as several PCIe cables that you can
see included. We need to make sure obviously when we go through the installation process that you
remove any plastic brackets on the graphics card I should have mentioned earlier as well don't try
and plug it in without that but here you can see as a demonstration this 3080 from msI has three
lots of power connections required as three eight pin PCIe power connections to run this bad boy,
that is a lot of cables so we need to dig out the extra cables from our power supply unit
or hopefully you've got those cables knocking around your house or you might have to purchase
some extra you can plug them into a modular power supply unit run them back through through to the
front of the case and then connect them up you can see me doing it here I have a multitude of
those very fancy premium PSU cables from Corsair I'm running into the front and then connecting up
be sure to connect up all of these now be very careful because some of the cabling is a bit
fiddly because you usually have a six pin connection and then the two extra connectors
are a bit separated so you sort of have to push them together and clip them in and then push
them all in you need to make sure that all of the connections are fully in there if you find
that two of the eight aren't connected in properly then you might find there are system problems and
your machine doesn't run as you'd expect which is obviously not ideal so we're obviously powering it
on and making sure that it's working before we go about the process of plugging everything back in
your keyboard your mouse your monitor make sure you plug in the monitor to the graphics card
rather than your motherboard and then go and download the latest drivers get them straight
from NVIDIA or AMD from the website be sure to select the correct ones for the graphics card
that you have installed and then download and begin the installation process I'd recommend if
you're using NVIDIA to get geforce experience as well because it makes future updates really easy
and also for this installation process I'd click to perform a clean installation and I do this
every time I install a new graphics driver and just make sure that everything is clean and up
to date and you've got the latest drivers without any conflicts if you do have any problems as I
said you can use ddu to be more thorough with it now another few things that I'd recommend
doing once you first get this setup especially if you have an RTX series graphics card is to search
for game mode within the Windows start menu and turn that on there's also an option for hardware
accelerated GPU scheduling you can again find this from the graphics settings within Windows
if you just press the Windows key and search for graphics settings you'll find them there
and you'll see hardware scheduling and there's also a performance preference
go for Microsoft store app and video control panel and set it to prefer high performance
I've done a video separately on all the different things that you can improve your GPU to get
maximum FPS out of it so I'll link to that in the description I'll go into a bit more detail on
these sorts of things but these are my recommended settings for making the most of your new GPU
find the power settings for example and the power and sleep settings and select ultimate performance
if you really want to push the limits of your machine and you're going to be using it for a
lot and for gaming and for high-end tasks another thing that I recommend doing is making sure that
you have the display settings set up correctly you can do this by clicking on the desktop and
clicking on display settings and then go into the options there if you have a fast refresh monitor
whether it's 120 hertz, 144 hertz, 240 hertz, 360 hertz, be sure to set that up in here and the
display settings make sure it's set to the right refresh rate as standard it will default to 60 so
you might not be making the most of your graphics card and your monitor and it'll be a real shame
another thing you can do is you can go into NVIDIA's display control panel and there are
a number of settings in here worth changing I'd recommend for example under manage 3d settings
that you turn on NVIDIA low latency mode and set that to ultra that will help with your
performance in game and if you go to the change resolution mode if your monitor is able to do it
you can also set it to output 10-bit color you can see that as the default color settings were just
8-bit and now they are set to 10-bit so I get a much richer color this is obviously going to vary
from monitor to monitor but it's worth checking these settings and making sure they're set up.
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