Do I need to uninstall anything before replacing video card if the same driver will be used?

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When replacing a video card that will use the same driver that's already installed do I have to uninstall anything on the system?
 
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If the GPU is of the same family, and it Unified Shader (made in the last 8 years) then no. It's been a very long time since you've had to.

A clean pull, then seating the other will work fine. I have been doing this for a while between a GT 240 and GTX560Ti on one system repeatedly.

I also have a backup ATi Radeon HD 6450 that works fine in the same machine without having to faff around with driver swapping.
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If the GPU is of the same family, and it Unified Shader (made in the last 8 years) then no. It's been a very long time since you've had to.

A clean pull, then seating the other will work fine. I have been doing this for a while between a GT 240 and GTX560Ti on one system repeatedly.

I also have a backup ATi Radeon HD 6450 that works fine in the same machine without having to faff around with driver swapping.
 
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