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[JG52Uther]

Hopefully I will be the proud owner of an X1950 pro in the near future.Currently I have an X800 fitted.Now the question is: Do I uninstall the cat 7.11 driver,reboot blah blah blah,then put the new card in and re-install the cat 7.11,or can I just swap the cards over without uninstalling the drivers first.
I think that the first option is the way to go,but just wanted some opinions first

Well that was supposed to be a quick question,but looks incredibly long winded when typed!

[JG52Uther]

Hopefully I will be the proud owner of an X1950 pro in the near future.Currently I have an X800 fitted.Now the question is: Do I uninstall the cat 7.11 driver,reboot blah blah blah,then put the new card in and re-install the cat 7.11,or can I just swap the cards over without uninstalling the drivers first.
I think that the first option is the way to go,but just wanted some opinions first

Well that was supposed to be a quick question,but looks incredibly long winded when typed!

[MaxMhz]

I would take the first option.
Keep the 7.11 cats though - they work great on the X1950 Pro. In case you do distributed computing like Folding@Home, also get the GPU optimized version from them to use the 1950 for computations - factor 50 speed increase compare to the CPU optimized one - the power of paralel processing... I hope Oleg will use it in BoB

[Worf101]

I have the same card I was just going to "unistall" the driver and keep the CCC. I'll let you know how it worked out tomorrow.

Da Worfster

[-HH-Quazi]

You will find that you will need to uninstall and reinstall the drivers anyway. If you leave the drivers alone and just remove the X800 & install the X1950, you will see that the card will not recognize that you already have the drivers installed. So you will end up uninstalling & reinstalling the driver any way.

[x6BL_Brando]

Try just switching cards first. I did the same when i shifted from an 8xx to a 1950Pro, and the Catalyst Centre picked up the new 'presence' and identified it correctly on the installed hardware page.

That was before 7.11 though, and I noticed there was a Microsoft update required when I put in the PCI Express card later.

B

PS - good job, btw - pleased for you

[JG52Uther]

OK just for a laugh (not much else going on around here ) I put the X1950 in without uninstalling the drivers,and as I suspected it did not pick them up.a quick uninstall/reinstall later and its all up and running!