In this video I'm going to show you how to install the EVGA Geforce RTX 3080 TI FTW3 Ultra Gaming
Card. I'm going to show you everything from uninstalling the old video card drivers and all
to installing the new video card drivers and all and then everything in between,
so welcome to ThisBytesForYou and let's get started.
All right, so before we actually install the new card, we're gonna go ahead prepare our system
so let's go ahead to wagnerdsoft.com, then we'll go ahead and download DDU. Scroll
down to the very bottom, official download here and now that we have that, we'll go to
nvidia.com. We'll click on drivers, select your video card, so here would be Geforce RTX 30 series
and then 3080 TI 64-Bit. Now we can either go with the Studio or the Game Ready, we're going
to be doing gaming though we're also going to be doing some productivity on here, but I'll stick
with gaming and then I'll click search and then we'll download the latest and greatest, at least
at the time of this video. So download and then download over here, AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Matrox,
anybody, all the video card manufacturers, sure they create their drivers and no matter how good
the uninstaller is from NVIDIA, AMD or whoever, It's always going to leave something behind,
so that when you install the newer drivers, sometimes those older ones don't get overwritten
and a lot of times when those drivers utilize that portion they're going to be using the old version
of that driver, of that software of that DLL which could cause a ton of issues issues such as
you know, weird screen artifacting or overheating, crashing, it can cause a ton of issues, this takes
another extra minute go ahead take that extra time to go ahead and prepare. Also I recommend using it
even if you're going from NVIDIA to NVIDIA or AMD to AMD even if it's the same video card,
takes a few extra seconds stop fighting it just do it. So now with that downloaded, we'll just close
here, hold your left shift key, right click on the start button,
hover over shutdown or signout and click restart all while holding that left shift key. You can
let go of the left shift key now, on this screen we click troubleshoot, advanced startup settings
and then restart to change windows options such as and we'll click restart here.
all right so now we're at the startup settings here we're going to go ahead and either press
the number 4 for safe mode or 5 for safe mode with networking or 6 for enable safe mode with command
prompt up to you but we want to get into safe mode so i'm going to hit 4 here we're going to go ahead
and go to wherever we downloaded ddu so go over this pc we'll go to downloads and then here's ddu
and click run and i will put it in ddu2 folder and extract it there so now we'll go to ddu2
open up ddu and then we'll double click on display driver uninstaller this seems to be the first time
just click ok here and then resize this in case it doesn't fit in your screen like it didn't for me
now this screen is very important now i have an amd chipset so i don't want it to remove
any of this stuff but i do want it to remove the amd gpu driver and it'll do that so just
remove all this stuff here that's for your chipset you don't want to ruin your chipset you can always
reinstall it later but just to make it safe and then one very important thing here prevent
downloads from drivers blah blah blah windows update that's a pretty important one because
then next time you get into windows microsoft is going to say oh hey this guy doesn't have drivers
let me go and help you out there and install what it wants to don't let microsoft install
drivers for you click ok here and then we'll click close and now here select gpu
and the card i have is an amd card but if your old card is an intel or nvidia or amd select that here
and then we can do a clean and restart
clean and do not restart or clean and shut down because we're going to go ahead and remove the old
video card i'm going to go ahead and do clean and shut down it's only going to take a few seconds
all right now that the system's off comes the scary part for a lot of you but don't worry i'm
gonna walk you through the entire process we're gonna go ahead get rid of the old video card and
install the new video card let's go all right so sorry for the match for the cables but
i never care about the back of the system so go ahead and disconnect anything that was on
the video card and go ahead and just flick the power switch on the back of the power supply
that way nothing gets additional power and then you're also kept grounded
all right so before we unscrew the video card we're going to want to remove the pcie cables
now you just can't pull them out because you're going to end up breaking your card
you'll notice there's a little thing down here to push and i'll give you a better angle in
a minute but pushing this down makes this clip pop up so that you can just push down
and pull the card out okay different angle push this little clip down raises this over here
okay so that's the way you remove your pcie cables now some systems have the screws on the inside
like this case some cases have it along the back but regardless of where the screws are
we're going to want to unscrew the video card you may have two or three screws okay now you notice
the card just sagged down a little bit it's still held into the pcie with a pcie retention
and then back here as well let me show you how to remove the card as well you can't just pull it out
or you'll break your pcie slot i have my hand on the bottom of the card so it won't fall out
but you'll notice there's a little thing right over here that is to retain or lock
the video card in place so you can't just pull it out because if you do pull it out you'll
rip your pcie slot out so what you do is hold your card push this in that unlocks the card
and allows you to pull it out the plastic holds on to this little lock right here
now i'm just using my nail i'm not holding the card up now he fell but you know the plastic goes
behind here and locks it in place so that your video card doesn't fall out by mistake but anyway
let's go ahead and pop in the 3080. we just pulled out the 6700 and you'll notice it came out of this
slot right here on the 3080 we have these right over here these gold fingers slide right into over
here and then these two little kind of prongs here go into two little holes you can't see them here
but it's between the case and the motherboard itself so we'll just slide that right here
now you'll notice those little fingers go into the hole into the slot right over here
and then if we push you'll notice that little locking retention mechanism thing
it's going to click forward
locking the card in place now i let go of the card and because of the way we have it slid in
we don't need to screw it down of course we will but it holds itself in place now
more than likely you're going to go ahead and build this with the system laying on its side
i build with the system standing up because it's a lot easier to record and because i've
been doing it for so long i've gotten used to it all right now that we have the card
in place we're going to go ahead and screw it in just keeping everything nice looking nice
the 6700 had only two pcie connections the 3080 ti has three and all three need to be plugged in now
each of the three have to come directly from the power supply and they are not daisy chained they
have to be all separate directly from the power supply the 6700 had the clips along the top
this particular card nvidia typically has the clips along the bottom so instead of being
like this you just flip it around and it's upside down so the easy quick way is just
connect it and slide it here
clicks in really easily so we're going to go ahead and just do that for all the rest
pretty simple right don't forget flick the switch on the back your power supply
and plug in your video card now i'm using a capture card so you can see what i see
so i'll be using this hdmi and then flip the power supply back on
so now that we're in windows we're just going to go ahead into file explorer and then go to
downloads or wherever you downloaded your video drivers and just double click on them then here
is where it's going to extract the drivers you can change it but i'll just leave it like that
you could change it if you don't want the geforce experience but i like it
you can if you don't like it go here but i'll leave it there
and click agree and continue custom next and perform a clean installation and
next that's it we've installed the drivers now a few things that i always recommend you do so you
get the most performance out of your video card so right click on the background and go to display
settings scroll all the way down go to advanced display settings and scroll down now you'll notice
it says 59.940 this is a 120 hertz monitor because i'm using the capture card it only shows 60 hertz
always put it to the max to your monitor supports so i click ok there or i click on 60 hertz and
keep changes if i was using a 60hz monitor now i'd be using the full 60 hertz now come back over
here i close this out and now i'll right click on the background go to nvidia control panel
agree and continue okay and then here you can change a lot more settings so we'll go to
adjust image settings with preview i typically like to put use my preference emphasizing quality
bump it down to performance and click apply and then i click take me there
scroll to the very bottom texture filtering quality high performance vertical sync
i'll leave it off and power management mode normal prefer maximum performance and apply
so i've shown you how to remove your old video drivers your old video card install your new video
card and install your new video drivers as well as set all your settings to get the most performance
out of your system now mind you there are a lot more settings i could have set
those are just basics and for the monitor since i am going through a capture card the capture card
only does 60 hertz so that's all i can do if i were to go directly through my hdmi or displayport
cable from the monitor i can go up to 120 hertz definitely set yours as high as you can go of
course you know so you can still see things on your monitor so i hope i have helped you there
to be able to use your brand new video card and as always if you have any questions
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