welcome back to this bytes4u so you might have just gotten yourself
the brand new EVGA Geforce RTX 3060 XC gaming card and you want to start using it but
how to get it in there don't worry my friends in this video I’m going to show you not only how to
install it but how to remove the old video card so you don't damage your motherboard how to uninstall
the drivers how to install the new drivers and how to set everything up so let's stop talking let's
get to it all right so starting off doesn't really matter what video card you have we're
going to go ahead and open up a browser this is a brand new install so yeah I still have edge so
we're going to go to wagnersoft.com and we're going to go ahead and download the latest
version of DDU so you may be asking why use DDU it's important whenever you uninstall drivers
through control panel using the AMD utility or the NVIDIA utility or the intel utility that's them
removing their own drivers that's like me trying to cut my hair if I had hair I’m going to mess up
it's going to happen maybe not always but sometimes it's going to happen so when you
uninstall using their utility chances are you're going to leave a folder behind some files behind
a bunch of registry entries it's going to be a mess so that when you install the latest driver
sometimes files might be read only you can't overwrite them and a lot of times you might
end up getting errors maybe you haven't had them maybe you have but this is the safest
it's a third party utility it's like the barber cutting my hair they see everything around me
they know what needs to be done better than I do which is why DDU gets updated all the time in case
NVIDIA intel AMD changes something they're always updating it incredibly important I’ve used it
for a long time so on this page we're going to go ahead scroll down and go to official download here
and then we'll go ahead just open it up from here and then I put it at the root
in a folder called DDU now if you have NVIDIA which we do in this video we're
going to go to NVIDIA drivers Geforce drivers scroll down a little tiny bit
select the series
then select your card now this card is not efficiently out I have
press release drivers but for example if I chose this one if I had the 3060 TI I choose that
my operating system language download type start search
okay I’m going to be using it for gaming so I’m not going to use the studio drivers I’m going
to use the latest game ready drivers the wiggle version I’ll get download and download now I’m
going to go ahead and cancel that because press release drivers I have my own already so I’m going
to go ahead and close that so we're going to go into safe mode but what's been happening to a lot
of people if they have an older version of windows is they get stuck if they don't have a password so
let's go set a password real quick so I’m just going to come right click on the start button
choose computer management go to local users and groups users I’ll right click on my account and
then I’ll just simply click set password proceed and one second let me enter a password real quick
press enter password has been set so now you're good for safe mode okay so now we're going to
go ahead and right click on the start button shutdown or sign out now hold the left shift key
and click restart okay now under choose an option we're going to and at this point you
can let go of the left shift key now we're going to click troubleshoot advanced options
and then click startup settings okay restart the change windows options such as and then
click restart so now in startup settings we're going to go ahead and press 4 to enable safe mode
now we're going to type in the password we just created even if you already have one I recommend
resetting it then go ahead and close this now go into file explorer this pc
wherever you extracted ddu2 double click on it click ok here now on this screen
you might have to resize it scroll down to the very bottom make sure you select prevent
downloads of drivers from windows update when windows search for a driver for device okay
now what that does is it stops windows updates from automatically downloading and installing
a brand new driver when it sees a brand new video card you don't want windows to choose the drivers
for you now if you have an AMD chipset like I do in this particular machine which I’ll have links
and a description of everything down in the description below you're going to want to make
sure you uncheck these options that way it doesn't remove anything from the chipset then we'll click
close now I do have an AMD video card so I’ll select device type GPU now it automatically
senses what video card you have now if it doesn't you can just click here and select whichever here
so I’m going to go ahead and click clean and do not restart this will only take a few seconds
okay then close this window and no you don't want to exit right now
okay and then now we'll just go ahead and close this out right click on the start button shut
down or sign out and shut down okay so at this point let's go ahead and take off the side panel
okay and now we have our bare naked car so first we're going to want to disconnect the HDMI,
Display Port, VGA, DVI whatever cable you might have attached to the back of
the system simply disconnect it here and turn off the power for your power supply
leave the cable connected but turn off the power now this is incredibly important before you touch
this video card or the inside of your system and before you even touch the 3060 xc gaming card
make sure to ground yourself touch the metal steel aluminum inside of your
case to go ahead and get rid of all that ESD in your hands that way you don't zap components
now if your card has any PCIE power connections we'll go ahead and remove them now
so I pressed down here and I pulled the card out the cable out let me come in a little bit closer
so you can see it okay so I pulled it down here and I pulled it out AMD cards typically will have
the clip at the very top and video cards will be the other way around and you'll
do the same thing but the clip will be at the bottom so now we'll come over here and unscrew
the video card you may want to have your hand on the bottom of the card in case it slips out
okay so we're good the card's not slipping out you don't just pull the video card out
you might end up ripping out your PCIE slot so let me take you in a little bit closer so you
can see exactly what you need to do on the very end of your PCIE slot you'll notice there's a
plastic retention mechanism I’ll zoom in so you can see that
now it's kind of hard to see but it's that little guy right there so sometimes you can
actually push that in and then that will push your video card out but sometimes it's a little
tight or it can actually be on the bottom and you need to reach your finger in to pull it out
so in this case I’ll grab my screwdriver and I’ll just push that in you'll notice the card
will slide out a little tiny bit you might have noticed that at this point it's safe to pull the
card out now I’m going to put it back in now look at that clip pop back in notice it went back in
now coming out further so you can see the card come out okay it might have come out a little
teeny tiny bit it's not going to come out a ton so now at this point it's safe to just pull the
card out all right so now we've removed the video card so at this point we'll just grab
the card we're going to want to line up these fingers with this PCIE slot right over here
and we're going to match up these two little metal pegs with this over here in between the
motherboard and the inside of the case might be able to see that better from here those two
little pegs are where those two little metal pegs on the card slide into it looks like it's
on the outside but it's actually on the inside of this case okay so now we'll slide the card in
matching up there we go
and now we'll simply slide the card in that little retention mechanism is going to pop out again
and that's it we've installed the card so now at this point I’m going to go
ahead and screw these in over here you may need to push the card a little bit
okay now that the pro the card is properly secured we'll go ahead and plug in one of
the eight pin PCIE connections any which one as long as it is a PCIE 8 pin not a CPU EPS
8 pin that won't fit unless you force it in there and that's it now we're going to come
in the back go ahead and plug in the HDMI display port after you do that don't forget
turn the power back on alright so we're back in windows enter in your password again and now
windows isn't automatically updating the drivers or anything even though it is connected to the
internet we'll go into file explorer wherever you may have the download the drivers downloaded
click yes there and wherever you may want to extract them to
okay agree and continue choose custom and even though we clean the drivers out ourselves
we're going to do perform a clean install just because what that does it gets rid of
older drivers if they're there why not have a second option just in case next
so now at this point the driver is asking me to reinstall don't ignore it
reinstall the reinstallation during the startup before everything loads up
it makes registry entries and everything when the system hasn't locked everything down so you may
start using it now but it's not going to perform as well as if you did a restart, restart now
okay so now that we're done installing the drivers some pretty important stuff
I want to go over with you so that you can get the most performance out of your system
okay so when we're back in windows right click on the desktop go to NVIDIA control panel
agree and continue and we'll go ahead open this up
okay so now I’m not using the capture card anymore I’m using a straight display port so if your
monitor has g-sync or FreeSync go ahead and click setup G-Sync it's not typically enabled by default
although I see it is now so I’ll go ahead and set it to enable with full screen and click apply
then I’ll come to adjust desktop size and position
and I will scroll down to the very bottom and then typically you're going to be set at 60 hertz
if your monitor supports 100, 120, 165, 244, whatever your monitor supports go ahead and set
that refresh right here and if you did change that just go ahead and click apply down here
and then on that part you're pretty much done you can get the most performance out of your system
now there's more tweaking and tuning you can do so we can go to adjust image settings with preview
and scroll down use my preference emphasizing slide down here click apply
and yes that way you get the best performance out of your system
and then we click under use the advanced 3d image settings without selecting it click take me there
and now here we have a host of other features that we can go ahead and use or not use so we
have image sharpening ambient occlusion a bunch here I’ll let you read that if you'd like later on
and then here we can select the texture fill quality vertical sync we can leave it off use
3d application settings on or fast and a ton of other stuff you can use right there alright so
I’ve shown you how to uninstall the previous drivers remove the old video card insert the
new video card install the latest drivers and then go ahead and change up the settings
to optimize it better for your performance now I recorded this yesterday but my capture card
has some issues so I had to re-record it which is nice because I got to use release drivers
so pretty cool but if you have any questions or concerns go ahead and leave them down in the
comments below I’d always be more than happy to help you guys out as always there's going to be a
lot more coming soon on this EVGA Geforce RTX 3060 xc gaming card so stick around yeah see you guys