ASUS 6850 1gb DirectCU

[OysterBarron]

I just picked up my new GCARD for when my PC gets back from Repairs ! I'm pretty confident at installing it! but any tips on removing old drivers and card would be appreciated! It says on the box that it has a voltage tweak witch makes it 50% faster and was just wondering how to go about implementing this? Bear in mind the last time i put a GCARD in a computer was about 1997!

 

One other thing is it lists on the box it needs a 40amp power supply well i brought a 880watt powers supply do i go by the MAX.A statistic or the combined one? for working out the amps im a bit worried i have picked the wrong supply! here's the one i brought http://www.maplin.co.uk/880w-g7-atx-psu-393047 any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

 

[Wolf68k]

With the link you gave I see no mention of the amps at all.

Seems like the G7 is a Maplin house brand and none of the ones I looked at listed the amps at all.

The XFX, a good brand by the way, Maplin only says "up to 120A" for the 2 PSUs they have from them which is confusing. However you go to Newegg you'll find the exact same units and in the case of the 750W you'll see this in the details "[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]" You add all of that up you get 119.8, there is your "up to 120A"....a-holes.

The CIT brand, which I have no idea how good or bad they are, Maplin actually gives you the break down of the amps on each of the voltage rails....FINALLY something that answers the question AND makes since. But for a 700W PSU that can only do a combined 42A among 2x+12V? Kind of weak if you ask me.

 

You said you already bought that PSU, when you get look for a sticker on the side of the unit, it should have a break down of what each rail's amps are.

In fact if you look at the image for this CIT unit http://www.maplin.co.uk/700w-black-cit-atx...lent-fan-264565 you can see the sticker I'm talking about. Click on the zoom and you can get a better look.

[OysterBarron]

Ok heres a pic of it

 

 

thanks for the explanation think i need to read it a few times to understand it!

[Wolf68k]

That looks like it has 4x+12V at 19A each? 19 or 18, it's hard to read.

Either way it's over 70A, so I'd say that's good.

 

 

Oh sorry and to answer the first part.

The voltage tweak has already been done. The card is factory overclocked.

As for getting rid of the old drivers.....

1. Get the latest version of Driver Sweeper http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/ (WARNING: It might try to install a toolbar or something else along those lines, while this product is safe to install you can also choose not to install it.)

2. Download latest drivers for your new card from the chip maker; nVidia or AMD/ATI as the case maybe

3. XP: Add/Remove Programs -- Vista/7: Programs and Features: Find the current drivers and uninstall them

4. Restart into SafeMode. While in SafeMode run DriverSweeper

5. Click on Miscellaneous under Options, make sure the 4 boxes are checked and the 3 options below is set to either Prompt or Don't Reboot

6. Under Home click Analyze and Clean; select the display drivers of the old card. Click Analyze and then Clean.

7. (optional) If you want to make doubt sure after that that nothing is still left behind, go to C:\Windows\System32\ and \SysWOW64\ look for anything that starts with "ati" or "nv" depending on which you had before. You can simply rename these file just to be safe; example: atixxx.dll to atixxx.dll_bak. Leave these remaining files will not hurt anything. Why DriverSweeper doesn't get rid of them is a good question.

8. Once that is done you can choose to either start installing the new drivers here, in SafeMode, or restart and install them when back in normal mode. Either way you'll be required to restart your system. My personal choice these days: restart and then install the drivers in normal mode. When Windows says it detects new hardware, click Cancel and then install the new drivers.

[OysterBarron]

thanks for the help i feel a bit more confident if my computer comes back tommorow! i may need your assitance still though when ut comes to actually doing it lol it seems pretty strait foward!