Can you just plug and play a new graphics card?

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Exodias3219

Exodias3219

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Hi, seems a bit lazy though. I currently have a GTX 560 with the latest 391.01 drivers and I'm going to replace it with a GTX 960. What I want to do is just plug and play with the GTX 960 without uninstalling and reinstalling the driver. If you disagree, I would like to check these steps in installing a new graphics card

1. Boot to safe mode, Use Display Driver Uninstaller(DDU)
2. Turn off PC
3. Install the GTX 960
4. Turn on PC
5. Install drivers
6. Reboot
7. End

Additional question, I would like to confirm that the GTX 960 is fully compatible with my current hardware
i5 3470
Biostar H61mlv
HyperX 8gb ddr3
Seasonic 620watts

Thanks
 
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One of my friends had issues with his PC and suspected his GTX960. I removed my 1050, put his GTX960 in, Windows needed an extra minute or two to boot due to installed drivers not matching the installed GPU, and everything seemed fine for the ~18h I used his GPU instead of mine. Then I put my own GPU back in, let Windows finish booting, rebooted my PC simply because hot-swapping GPU drivers usually causes my PC to crash a few days later and haven't had any issues yet.
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One of my friends had issues with his PC and suspected his GTX960. I removed my 1050, put his GTX960 in, Windows needed an extra minute or two to boot due to installed drivers not matching the installed GPU, and everything seemed fine for the ~18h I used his GPU instead of mine. Then I put my own GPU back in, let Windows finish booting, rebooted my PC simply because hot-swapping GPU drivers usually causes my PC to crash a few days later and haven't had any issues yet.
 
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You can try it doing it without uninstalling the 560 driver. It may give you some issues though. If you dont install the 960 driver then you may have some performance loss. If it was me I would run the DDU tool as you said above and then remove the 560 and install the 960.

As for the compatibility, the 960 will run fine on those parts.
 
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k1114

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The 560 and 960 use the same driver. The driver doesn't select a single gpu. It installs all that are compatible. My pc was upgraded from a 560ti to 1060 without uninstalling drivers. Driver updates have never had clean install selected. I still don't have issues.
 
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