NVidia driver: 296.10

Even though they may use the same drivers, I would still uninstall them.

If I were you - I would download driver sweeper, delete all old drivers, then shut down your computer.

Install your new GPU while it's shut down (also make sure to disconnect the power cable from the power supply).

Now once booted back up - install the new drivers. That will assure you have no issues with drivers.

Depending on your card, it might do it its self. I have an evga gtx 580 and when i upgraded from my 570 it asked if i wanted to delete my old drivers before installing the new ones. But most likely i would delete the old ones first, just to be safe.

i have gone into the "drive sweeper" website, i got to the download page (http://downloads.guru3d.com/), which one of them do i download to get rid of the drivers?

i got it from here:
http://phyxion.net/item/driver-sweeper.html
works great. btw, i boot into safe mode to clean up everything (press F8 after post, before windows)

Uhh go here instead:

http://majorgeeks.com/Driver_Sweeper_d6171.html

Click on Download.

is going into safe mode needed or not really?

Safe mode would be better.

Haha looniam - I posted 10 seconds after you.

i am quick on the ping