Graphics Card upgrade - Power Color Fighter AMD Radeon RX 6600

[NonSequitur777]

@OzyDeskTop,

One more thing: in your first post, you mentioned, quote: "I need to upgrade my graphics card."

What card was installed?

It would be interesting for me to know that when you reinstall your old card, that it would be 'seen' (and work) in your PC.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[OzyDeskTop]

Thank you for the follow up.  I've never had a dedicated graphics card in my system.  I've always just used the Intel 630 that i believe is part of the CPU.  I decided to try a dedicated GPU to take some of the load off of my DAW when mixing music.  I was advised this would help stop my music from overusing the CPU and stop the glitching that i can see and hear.  FYI i ordered the new card on 5/29 and it never came on time and now the delivery date has been moved 11 days further to 6/17 - that's nuts, so I haven't even received the Nvidia yet.  I'm wondering if it will actually ever come.  Can you suggest a backup recommendation in case i decide to cancel this one?  Usually with Prime i get items delivered next day or within a reasonable timeframe.   They never even shipped it yet. 

[NonSequitur777]

@OzyDeskTop,

Assuming you ordered the MSI RTX 4060, cancel it, and order the Asus RTX 4060: Amazon.com: ASUS Dual GeForce RTX™ 4060 EVO OC Edition 8GB GDDR6 (PCIe 4.0, 8GB GDDR6, DLSS 3, HDMI ....

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[OzyDeskTop]

Thank You, I'll do that

[OzyDeskTop]

After i get the ASUS card (it looks like it will be here tonight!)  I'll run the DDU as before.  Should i also go into Device Manager and disable or uninstall the integrated display driver (intel HD Graphics 630) or do i just leave that alone?

[NonSequitur777]

@OzyDeskTop,

Outstanding!

Don't worry about the integrated graphics.  It should be irrelevant as your motherboard should disable the iGPU anyway upon installing your card.

First (without the new card), download the official Nvidia RTX 4060 -Game Ready Driver from here: https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/555.99/555.99-desktop-win10-win11-64bit-international-dch-whq..., then run DDU simply as a precaution, when that is done, power-down your PC (remove from power, then push the power button for 4 seconds to release any residual charge), and install your new card.  Run/install the new driver: the "Game Ready" driver ONLY.

And before you know it (please tell!) you got yourself a decent gaming rig!

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[OzyDeskTop]

Thank you but, actually, it's the ASUS card that I just received.  I gave up on the Nvidia because the delivery was ridiculously delayed.  The ASUS came super fast within 5 hours!

[NonSequitur777]

@OzyDeskTop,

Please note: Nvidia is not the actual graphics card manufacturer, such as MSI, Asus, Gigabyte, etc., but provides the driver software for each of its Nvidia-platform/system designed GPUs.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[OzyDeskTop]

Ah, i see.  Thank you.  I'm going to try it now

[OzyDeskTop]

Excellent!, it installed without a problem.  It wouldn't let me install the drivers first though. It required me to insert the card first  and upon restart all went smoothly.  It helped my music production a little but I guess I'm just using too many audio tracks and plugins so I still get a little bit of audio glitching here and there.  Can you recommend any settings to reduce my Digital Signal Processing?  I often hit 100%.  Ideally It should be at lower than 80%.  Thank your help, thus far.