Recent content by Sinistercr0c

If you want to upgrade you may as well go latest gen. on either AMD Ryzen or Intel Kaby Lake. Personally I'd wait for the mid range Ryzen CPU's in April and see what the reviews say about them....but I'm an AMD fan.

Your Phenom CPU is a socket AM3 processor whereas an FX CPU is socket AM3+...you'd need a motherboard upgrade also, so no...its not worth it.

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A Titan X would be huge overkill for 1440p gaming. Your issue I suspect (like my own) will be down to a poorly optimised BF1 SLI profile. I run an Acer XR341CK (3440 x 1440) on 2 x AMD R9 280x and get very poor scaling as opposed to running the game on a single card. In addition I get the...

None of those parameters matter. The only thing that DOES matter is that your motherboard has at least one PCI-E slot (whether this is x4, x8 or x16). The revision of PCI-E also does not matter as a PCI-E 3.0 GPU will work without problem in a PCI-E 2.0 motherboard slot for example.

Motherboards from ASUS or Gigabyte cannot be beaten in my opinion: http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/Z170-PRO-GAMING-AURA/ https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=Z170+PRO+GAMING%2FAURA&N=-1&isNodeId=1

Correctomundo! Good luck and post up how it goes.

I can only tell you that what you have seen is the same as I have seen on the AMD side. I Uninstalled the Crimson driver suite both using MS uninstall programs and then DDU utility (which also cleans the registry) and almost immediately after the reboot, my display adaptors in device manager...

Make sure you un-install the current GPU driver (even though they are both Nvidia cards) prior to installing your new GPU. Use DDU: http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

You say driver files...I assume you don't mean the Nvidia control panel/Geforce Experience? As clutchc has said, unless you remove the GPU, then the registry (which I assume you have not messed with) will still hold the install information for the GPU and re-install the driver.

Your motherboard has 2 x gen. 3 PCI-E 16 slots...so yes it will support a GTX 1050 Ti....or a GTX 1080 for that matter.

Disconnect your PC from your network....then do whatever uninstall you like (including DDU) and watch as windows 10 goes right ahead and reinstalls your Nvidia driver...its not downloading from MS, the driver is pre-packed into win 10 just as Crimson 16.6 is for AMD cards.

Your GPU is alsmost 9 years old (released in 2008). I suspect there have been no driver improvements for that series cards for a number of years. You are also running an old Socket 775 quad core CPU also released in 2008. You are just above the minimum specs for playing BF3. I'd try...

Why cut off your nose to spite your face? With SLI Nvidia has the capability to sell more cards....why would they stop doing that?

I suggest you read this: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/211515-windows-10-attempts-to-install-drivers-for-hardware-you-no-longer-have