About to do a video card transplant

[brownbox]

My brand new Palit 7600GS arrived today, in a nice pretty green package with a funny looking robot frog on the label

Anyway, Im about to change my video card around. anything I should keep in mind while doing this? Some do's and dont's about video card changing?

Heres what Im going to do
1:Uninstall all drivers from current video card. Use Driver cleaner pro to finish the job
2: turn off computer and remove old video card
3: install new video card
4:start up computer and install drivers

Is this right?

Cheers
BB

[creator2003]

keep one hand on the tower metal inside the case to keep it from sending static to the card ....earth or something like t

[brownbox]

alright thanks. Ill do the "Operation"after I have dinner

[brownbox]

HOLY HECK!

With my new video card, Im getting 40+FPS with Need for speed most wanted on 1280x1040 with all settings maxed! Wooooow

Cant wait to try it on FSX!

Oh, and its only running at 50 degrees C while Im playing

[Zöltuger]

that sounds impressive!

i'm so jealous

[ardypilot]

keep one hand on the tower metal inside the case to keep it from sending static to the card

Oops- I have never done that before when changing my PC parts around. Have I ruined anything?

P.S. I need a new GFX card, so if anyone wishes to donate me a nVidia 7600 AGP4X compatable for free, send me a PM

[creator2003]

yup trolly you should always hold the side of your case even put your funny bone on the side when installing any hardware into your puter or wear a static braclet,this stops any chance of stuffing any cards going in the puter with the static off your body and frying the hardware ,
no you problery havent stuffed anything but it can happen ,and with a costly card you dont want anything to go wrong ,,mike

[Bandit]

I'm looking at replacing my on board nVidia 6100 with either a PCI-e 7600GS or 7600GT 256mb probably.

Now I gather from the Hardware benchmarking sites that the GT is the better performing card. But whats the actual difference? Whats the GS and GT mean?

[HardCorePawn]

Usually Clock Speeds & Memory Size and/or Bandwidth...

eg. GS will have lower clock speeds and probably DDR2 instead of DDR3 memory... may only be 128bit instead of 256bit (note this is the bus size, not the amount of memory) etc etc... depends on brand and model of card

As for what GS and GT mean... they dont have a meaning per se, its like the whole GL, GLX, GLXi, GTI type car variants... they're just there to distinguish the variants of the base model.

[brownbox]

the VGA cooler I fitted at 12:00 am last night/this morning worked wonders. Its amazing how it was so easy to fit (40 minutes from removing card to putting back in), and it was so effective!

After playing FSX Demo for a solid half hour, my GPU Temp is staying at a steady 42-43 Degrees. Without the cooler, it was between 50-60. Also, the stock fan on the video card was noisy, whereas I cant even hear the one on there now.

No load=30-35 degrees
Full load=42 degrees

Not too bad at all. Do you think this is a suitable temp to be able to start Overclocking the card? I reckon this card should be able to easily reach 7600GT speeds, especially since it has DDR3 Memory

[Zöltuger]

only one way to find out