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Hi all, I have an asus p8p67 pro v3.0 mobo and my GeForce GTX 780 has just died. What are my options for a replacement please? I have a corsair ax850 psu and an i7 2600k cpu memory is 16 gb of ddr 1600 ram. I know this is an old rig by today's standards but I have been playing bf1 quite happily without problems.

Your recommendations please.
 
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Yes and no. Drivers are specific to the card still. And that big of a gap you'll still need to download the correct drivers. That's why on Nvidia's driver page you still need to specify which GPU you have, GeForce Experience will auto-detect it, but with an Nvidia driver it is more likely you'll be able to plug it in and it will work, and then allow you to clean the drivers and install the new ones.

You can also type in DDU into google and it will be the first thing that pops up, by guru3d.
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If you are happy with your current rig and want something in a similar wheelhouse to what you've got, I'd say either a 1060 6GB or an rx 570. About the same price and performance, depending on what the software prefers, but BF1 happens to prefer the 570. Both are about the same price but I think the 570 is getting released this week so it may be harder to find.


But a 1070 is also within your budget and would be a very decent upgrade. That's probably what I would do if you aren't really out to save money.
 
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It's 'legendary' reputation for excellent customer support disagrees. I'm an AMD fan as well, but let's not get off topic here.

OP: Yes, the new cards should work fine with your motherboard. Either the 1060 6gb or the rx 570 will set you aright.
 
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Looking at my rig I have two power connectors for the graphics card one four pin and one six pin. Looking at the spec for the GTX1070 it requires one eight pin power connector. How can I get round this, is there an adapter available?
 
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Lol I couldn't give a rip about their customer support, their products are trash. That's all the EVGA fan boys ever talk about is their great CS. Guess they should have great CS because of all their trash products constantly requiring CS. But yeah off point. But the OP needs to understand that EVGA only makes overpriced crap nowadays. Call it a "legendary" CS tax.
 
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Most need either 1 6-pin and 1 8-pin, or two 8-pins. There are adapters but most are 6-pin to 8-pin so I think you would need two of them. Might need a new PSU to run a new GPU. My suggestion would be get a 570 or 1060 6GB and upgrade that PSU while you're at it. I can recommend a new one but unfortunately as far as PSUs go there aren't any truly great options available that don't cost an arm and a leg. Can't go wrong with Corsair but they can be pricey, and unfortunately EVGA makes the only other solid midrange option. But some have a tendency to go boom.... was enough to scare me away from their PSU's for good. There's always Good 'ol Seasonic as well.
 
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Looking at the spec on the ebuyer page the 1060 needs one six pin and the 1070 needs one eight pin.. I have one four pin and one six pin, my psu is a corsair AX850 are you saying this is not powerful enough?
 
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that corsair is modular, and has all the cables you need

it has multiple 6+2 cables


at 1080p i would not run a 1070 with your cpu, not fast enough to keep up


get a rx 580 or a gtx 1060 6gb
 
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Yes, I am thinking the same. Is there any benefit in a full size 1060 or a half size one like the EVGA offering?

 
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cooling
 
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Ok thanks all for your helpful answers. I think I will probably go for the 1060. Question now is what manufacturer? My last card was an EVGA one and it failed two weeks outside of the three year warranty.. has anyone any thoughts on a more reliable manufacturer?
 
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Never had an MSI card before, and I see that the gaming X also requires an eight pin connector.. I will look at my system and see what power connectors I have available.. it would seem that most of the other 1060 6gb cards only require one six pin power connector which I have.
 
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Ok, my next problem is this. I have ordered my new card, my old card is very flaky at best, sometimes I can boot to windows desktop using windows generic drivers, other times it blue screens and I have to reboot even if I get to desktop lots of graphic artefacts in evidence.

With the card performing like this do I attempt to uninstall the old drivers before installing the new card? With the risk that the system blue screens during the uninstall process and the possible corruption of the OS that this may cause? Or do I uninstall the old card and install the new card before I boot the machine? What is my best course of action to install the new card?
 
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either way should be fine. You will have issues until you remove the old drivers though, so be prepared for those... one of which is the computer not recognizing the new card. So to avoid that risk I would risk the trouble of the old card and uninstall all the old drivers using DDU.
 
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Ok thanks, can you give me a link or point me to where I can download the DDU utility?

 
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One thing that occurred to me, I am replacing a GTX780 with a GTX1060 both of which use Nvidia drivers would the new card recognise and use the current Nvidia drivers already installed?
 
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Yes and no. Drivers are specific to the card still. And that big of a gap you'll still need to download the correct drivers. That's why on Nvidia's driver page you still need to specify which GPU you have, GeForce Experience will auto-detect it, but with an Nvidia driver it is more likely you'll be able to plug it in and it will work, and then allow you to clean the drivers and install the new ones.

You can also type in DDU into google and it will be the first thing that pops up, by guru3d.
 
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