Reply To: GFX Card Hi all, So, I currently have a Gigabyte nvidia GTX 660 2GB card Windforce which is meant to be pretty quiet and has been to date and I recently downloaded…

[kev2021]

So the card came today – large box….

Removed the gfx driver but wanted a reboot to remove NVidia audio and other stuff so just shut down and installed the card.

Back in, gfx driver defaulted to a default res but whilst getting to the drivers I downloaded, it updated to a default driver by windows, better resolution. Installed the NVidia driver and for some reason it said successful but the NVidia window still saying using a older driver and new driver was available, installed again – same thing.

Rebooted now suddenly it knows its on the latest driver.

Only issue I had installing the card is that the new gfx card is a bit heavier it seems as I have a tower case so the card leans slightly and rests on my old sound blaster audio card – literally touches it and the air gab between them is 0 to about 1mm or 2mm only so I’ve pulled the sound blaster card and just using the onboard audio, remove the creative drivers also.

My sound blaster card is a sound blaster X-Fi model number SB0880 and is quiet old so I suspect the onboard sound maybe equally the same or better?

Kev

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