How to connect Nvidia?

If you are building a computer or just decided toTo update the hardware, you may need information on how to connect the video card. By itself, this process, as we shall soon see, is not difficult, but there are several points to which attention should be paid. It is with them that we will begin.

Preparing for installation

Before installing the video card, make sure that it matches the configuration of your hardware:

Priority should be given to the connectorvideo card (agp or pci-express) and bus bandwidth. In the specifications for the motherboard there is a list of suitable video cards. The same information can be obtained from the manufacturer's website.
The power of the power supply must be sufficient for the operation of the video card.
If you put the video card in place of the old one,first remove its driver and when the computer is turned off and unplugged from the network, we extract it. To do this, you may need to use the How to remove NVIDIA driver article.

Installing the video card

Now consider how to connect Nvidia. So, the video card is available, it only remains to connect it to the motherboard.

We open the package and carefully study the installation instructions.
We take the video card and insert it into a special sloton the mother card. Usually he or they, if the mother card provides for the connection of several video cards, have a slightly different appearance and a characteristic flag that fixes the installed video card. When the motherboard comes to its place, there will be a light click, which means that the check box is closed.
Some video cards require a connectionin this case, you need to additionally connect the connector from the power supply to a special port on the video card or connect a special connector of the video card, it depends on the model of the video card. When connecting, you should be very careful.
Now turn on the computer and install the driver on your new video card.

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