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I am currently running an HIS Radeon HD 7950 graphics card on my rig. I recently bought a second VisionTek Radeon HD 7950 on black Friday and was hoping to crossfire. I have the xfire bridge and was getting ready to put the new card in my PC when I thought about drivers and compatibility.
I looked up several tutorials regarding crossfiring and it says to uninstall my drivers prior to putting the card in. I was wondering if this was for people who are "upgrading" cards and crossfiring or if there are secondary crossfire drivers that need to be installed as well.
I have not done this before and am sort of a newbie in regards to the hardware technicalities of computers.
I am running an ASRock z68 mobo and a 850w ps.
My questions are as follows.
1. Since I am upgrading to the same card should I still do this uninstalling of drivers?
2. If so should I just use the install disk that came with my VisonTek card to install drivers for both cards? Are there even differences in drivers for the different "brand" cards?
3. Does sound like cause for concern or should I just go ahead?
4. After I have installed the card (physically) should I just boot up my computer as I normally would? Is there anything else that I might/should/need to do following card installation to verify/activate my crossfire setup?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I looked up several tutorials regarding crossfiring and it says to uninstall my drivers prior to putting the card in. I was wondering if this was for people who are "upgrading" cards and crossfiring or if there are secondary crossfire drivers that need to be installed as well.
I have not done this before and am sort of a newbie in regards to the hardware technicalities of computers.
I am running an ASRock z68 mobo and a 850w ps.
My questions are as follows.
1. Since I am upgrading to the same card should I still do this uninstalling of drivers?
2. If so should I just use the install disk that came with my VisonTek card to install drivers for both cards? Are there even differences in drivers for the different "brand" cards?
3. Does sound like cause for concern or should I just go ahead?
4. After I have installed the card (physically) should I just boot up my computer as I normally would? Is there anything else that I might/should/need to do following card installation to verify/activate my crossfire setup?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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