Upgrading from a 660 to a 970.

[epicninja21]

Since christmas has come a little early I'll be upgrading to a 970 Gigabyte G1 edition and with this I am seeking some help on exactly what to do upon upgrading this card.

I suppose I'm just paranoid but I don't wish to botch this up. Is this just a simple plug in, download the new drivers for the card and play or do I have to do other things?


~Any help for a paranoid pleb is greatly appreciated :^)

 

[theyeti87]

That's about it, assuming you've powered your system down 😉

 

[Dunlop0078]

Thats pretty much it, what power supply do you have make and model? I'll make sure its good enough and has the required cables.

 

[epicninja21]

Power won't be an issue, was fortunate to win the summer breeze giveaway from EVGA a while back.

EVGA Supernova G2 1000w 80+ Gold.

 

[epicninja21]

That's about it, assuming you've powered your system down 😉

Of course of course haha, well hopefully all goes plain sailing. Suppose I should get the driver page bookmarked, or does something like Geforce Experience do that for me?

 

[Dunlop0078]

Power won't be an issue, was fortunate to win the summer breeze giveaway from EVGA a while back.

EVGA Supernova G2 1000w 80+ Gold.

Oh yeah, you are all good. I would love to win me a 1000watt G2 lol.

 

[Dunlop0078]

You might not need to do anything with your drivers I believe the 660 and 970 use the same driver. I would still probably do a clean install of the drivers however when getting a new card, just delete all your nvidia drivers in control panel, programs, then open geforce experience and download the drives it should take care of everything after that.

 

[NightAntilli]

When power is not an issue, an R9 390 is superior to the GTX 970.

 

[Dunlop0078]

When power is not an issue, an R9 390 is superior to the GTX 970.

I would also rather have a 390 especially if you plan to upgrade to a 1440p monitor at some point. Both perform nearly identical at 1080p I think the 970 might pull ahead slightly in some games.

 

[epicninja21]

When power is not an issue, an R9 390 is superior to the GTX 970.

It might be, however I really cannot be bothered going to the hassle of swapping from Nvidia to AMD nor will I be using more than 3.5GB of VRAM since I only game at 1080p (will be upgrading to a 144hz monitor at some point) and nothing higher for the time being so won't need the 8GB offered from the R9 390, believe me I've taken it into consideration.

 

[NightAntilli]

Fair enough. I personally think you will likely regret that decision if you don't upgrade again within two years. Your choice though

 

[epicninja21]

Fair enough. I personally think you will likely regret that decision if you don't upgrade again within two years. Your choice though

I have 0 plans to upgrade past 1080p in the next couple of years again, I'll be buying something that won't be used to its full potential.. :/ But I can see where you're coming from.