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Posted onPost created on December 14 2013 22:08 ET by William Eberhart

Just a quick question for you smart people..........I am upgrading my gts250 to a gtx660 in two days and wanted to make sure I do this right. I have watched everything on how to do it but my questions involves the drivers. I have the newest drivers downloaded already for the card but everything I see says to delete everything first then remove old card then install and put in the new drivers once the new card is in. Somehow I am sure I will muck this up so I am asking here so I do it the right way. Any help or pointing in the right direction to a good article would be helpful. I have seen many but am a little confused since there are so many things out there and I am not sure I would be following the right thing. Thanks in advance.

Vince

William Eberhart

Captain, B777-200

DVA043
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Posted onPost created on December 15 2013 00:04 ET by Luke Kolin

I went from a GTX 560 to a GTX 760 the other day. Export your profiles from nv inspector, load the new driver doing a clean install, then load profiles back into nv inspector. Simple.

Cheers

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on December 15 2013 00:13 ET by William Eberhart

Thanks Luke!

William Eberhart

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on December 15 2013 21:32 ET by William Eberhart

Already have a GTX 660 OC on the way so..................decided to go ahead and upgrade a couple other parts. Just wanted to put them down here to see if anyone can see a problem with them. I know not the best but it is within my budget. Total with rebates/discounts is about $544 give or take a few bucks. Good or not so Good? Any feedback appreciated.

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL -newegg
ASRock Z87 Extreme4 Socket LGA 1150 Z87 ATX Intel Motherboard- Micro Center
Intel Core i5-4670K Quad-Core Desktop Processor 3.4 GHZ 6 MB Cache- Micro Center
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SUPERCLOCKED 2048MB GDDR5 DVI HDMI DP Graphics Card 02G-P4-2662-KR- Amazon

I will be using my current cooler a Xigmatek Dark Knight-S1283V and my current drives along with my 650 Watts CMPSU-650TX.

Thanks
Vince

William Eberhart

Captain, B777-200

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Posted onPost created on December 16 2013 09:24 ET by Charles Carter

I'd follow Luke's advice for the drivers. Best I can tell, it's spot on.

The components you're adding look great. I'd advise you to consider stepping up your power supply. You've got a Corsair TX series, so you should be in fairly good hands. The only reason I'm bringing it up is because my power supply blew just a few days ago. It was a quality design (though the manufacturer has gone out of business) so it didn't fry anything when it blew. I had to doctor my hard drive a bit because it was in the middle of writing when the power blew. It was a 550w supply on an i5 2.67 GHz processor overclocked to 3.61 GHz, with a GTS 250 GPU. I stepped up to 750w. I'm not saying you HAVE to swap yours out, just do a little research and make sure your supply is meeting your needs.

Sounds like you're going to have a pretty nice setup. Enjoy!

Charles Carter

Senior Captain, MD-88

Posted onPost created on December 16 2013 09:59 ET by William Eberhart

Thanks Charles. I have had the psu for awhile but due to my job and being gone so much of the year I have only used the computer it is in about 3 months a year since early 2010.

Now the real test will come. Never put a computer together before but I have read and watched everything I could about. I will definitely be back on here if I have any questions. You guys on here know your stuff for sure! Now to make the long drive to Micro Center to get the CPU and motherboard. Thanks again Charles for responding.

William Eberhart

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on December 16 2013 10:31 ET by Luke Kolin

Some thoughts:

If you're planning on using P3Dv2 or a 2560x1440 monitor at any point during the lifetime of your video card, see what a 4GB model will set you back. DON'T downgrade the GPU for more memory, but see if a 4GB model is similar. I looked at a 2GB GTX 760 but the 4GB model was only around $25 more.

Power supplies aren't about wattage. Most high-end machines are unlikely to pull more than around 375W from the wall, but manufacturers overspec the PSU to a ridiculous extent because there are a lot of crappy PSUs out there that don't allow enough voltage over the 12V rail. I would get a 550W Seasonic and not need a new PSU for 5 years. Seasonic makes highly recommended PSUs.

If it's not a huge price differential, consider 2x8GB. While your flight sim won't be able to use it all, the extra memory can be used for disk cache. If you don't have an SSD, more disk cache will help - how much? Not sure. But if the price differential is small, it's worth considering.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

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Posted onPost created on December 16 2013 12:40 ET by Robbie Johnson

The upgrade looks good, I would change the mobo though. ASRock lost my trust with their last gen Extreme 4 by making the mobo much thinner than it should be and lying about the VRM's. I typically stick with Asus, although Gigabyte also has some quality mobos.

Another thing to note: assuming you have an OEM copy of Windows you will need to buy a new key when you change the mobo since OEM copies are tied to the mobo. If you take Luke's advice about getting 16GB of RAM you will need to upgrade to Win 7 Professional in order to use it all; Win 7 Home Premium can only address 16GB of RAM including the VRAM.

Robbie Johnson (DVA10131)

Posted onPost created on December 16 2013 14:03 ET by William Eberhart

Luke, Not going to move to P3Dv2 anytime soon. Is Corsair not a good PSU? and with how little time it has been run I figured it was still good to go. 16g ram is pushing beyond my budget so I will have to just wait. I do appreciate the advice just can't do it right now with the ram and card and possible psu.

Robbie, I will look for another mobo if I can find one for the same price range. ($119.00)
I checked with the vendor of my current rig (cyperpowerpc) and one of the techs on the forum said I should not have a problem using my windows 7 disc and key from it on a new mobo with my current drives since mine was not a digital license. I got the pc back in January 2010.

Guys, I appreciate the advice. I am taking it all in and doing some research now. I may end up sticking with what I have due to limiting myself to a set budget. This world is still fairly new to me since my line of work is different then most!

William Eberhart

Captain, B777-200

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