- Feb 5, 2016
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Hey all, I bought an MSI RX 480 Armor 8GB OC to replace my Asus R9 280 DirectCU II. This is my first upgrade since building this rig in September of 2014 and I got a little ahead of myself and just through the 480 in there. Then I realized I should have probably prepped by deleting my ASUS software and drivers and stuff. So, I threw the 280 back in and went to device manager and uninstalled the graphic drivers and tried to get rid of GPUtweak, but it doesn't show up in my add/remove programs page, so I guess it's part of the mobo's programs????
Anyway, I'm fairly certain that Device Manager is useless; it always seems to say that your devices are up to date, but you see newer versions on the manufacturer's website and you try to uninstall drivers, yet in an AMD file on my C:/ drive, I still have the 280 drivers.
So, can anyone give me their tried and true ABC's of upgrading a GPU. I'm tired of downloading AMDcatalyst and I'm tired of finding programs I can't delete and not knowing what to do.
Thanks for any help.
P.S. - one direct question: does your computer recognize component drivers where ever they are? Like, i've updated drivers, but have never really been sure on how to confirm that they're being applied.
Anyway, I'm fairly certain that Device Manager is useless; it always seems to say that your devices are up to date, but you see newer versions on the manufacturer's website and you try to uninstall drivers, yet in an AMD file on my C:/ drive, I still have the 280 drivers.
So, can anyone give me their tried and true ABC's of upgrading a GPU. I'm tired of downloading AMDcatalyst and I'm tired of finding programs I can't delete and not knowing what to do.
Thanks for any help.
P.S. - one direct question: does your computer recognize component drivers where ever they are? Like, i've updated drivers, but have never really been sure on how to confirm that they're being applied.
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