Note that you may need to remove a plastic cover from the GPU’s PCIE connector.Ħ. Don’t push it in too hard – just enough for the tab to click in. Push the graphics card in enough for the tab to comfortably click in. This is the long port near the bottom left of your motherboard, as pictured above beside the red circle. Insert your graphics card into the top-most PCIE 1×16 port with the appropriate inbuilt connector Image: Zachariah Kelly/Gizmodo Australiaĥ. It may look slightly different on your motherboard. Circled is the tab, which is connected to the PCIE 1×16 port. Pull the tab back on the top-most PCIE 1×16 port in your motherboard Image: Zachariah Kelly/Gizmodo AustraliaĤ. PCIE case slots, with a GPU installed into two of them. You don’t need to remove all of them, but they may all be protected by a shield, which you need to also remove. These align with the topmost PCIE 1×16 slot. Remove the PCIE case slots from the back of your PC case that your GPU will be using If you need to remove your old graphics card, unplug the VGA cable(s), unscrew it from the PCIE case slots on the back (as shown below), push the tab on the PCIE port so that it releases, and gently slide the old GPU outward.ģ. Physically remove your old GPU (if you have one) Unplug any cables and move the PC to an accessible surface, if necessary.Ģ. If you previously had a GPU, you can uninstall the old GPU drivers using this guide. Uninstall old GPU drivers and turn off the PC If you’ve just bought a new card, be it an AMD, Nvidia or Intel Arc series graphics card, you can use this guide as either an easy beginner’s walkthrough or a basic faults explainer (in case something isn’t going right during the installation). The physical removal and replacement of a computer graphics card can seem like a difficult task, one that you might not have done before or one where you might be worried about damaging your PC, but I’m here to tell you installing a GPU isn’t terribly complicated.
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