Windows 8 Upgrading Video Card

ShoobieStomper

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Hey, guys! I just have a quick question. I have an ASUS desktop with a shared AMD Radeon HD 8670D and my friend gave me an older dedicated video card. It's an AMD Radeon HD 6750. My question is: Will this be better than what I already have since it's dedicated? If so, how do I install it?

Thanks in advance! :-)

- Alex
 

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Will this be better than what I already have since it's dedicated?
Hi Alex,
Yes... as for the install an Asus will just detect the card as soon as you plug it in.

Windows 8 will try to give a shit Microsoft driver by default... get the one from radeon.
Windows 8.1.1 isn't too bad at Radeon drivers... the radeon driver is still better (i.e. faster) but the Microsoft is less mucking about.
Cool looks a good price…

I’d be interested to see a before and after benchtest if you don’t mind downloading say Unigine_Valley-1.0 (free) and posting the results?
An image from 'Upgrading Video Card'. Benchmarks show Intel HD 4000 under Windows 8 scores 484, while ATI Radeon HD 4800 under Windows 7 scores 1298.


An image from 'Upgrading Video Card'. Benchmarks show Intel HD 4000 under Windows 8 scores 484, while ATI Radeon HD 4800 under Windows 7 scores 1298.


p.s. my Asus laptop and windows 7 shouldn't be that hard for your system to top.
 

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Sure thing... will do! I will post an update when I actually install it and then run the test! Thanks again for all of your help! I have learned a lot in the past couple days! :-)
 

Hey, ussnorway and everyone else! I finally got that new GPU installed! Here are my before and after benchmarks. It was quite a drastic improvement... almost seven times better!

An image from 'Upgrading Video Card'. Benchmarks show AMD Radeon HD 8670D scores 287 FPS 6.9, GTX 750 Ti scores 1990 FPS 47.6.


An image from 'Upgrading Video Card'. Benchmarks show AMD Radeon HD 8670D scores 287 FPS 6.9, GTX 750 Ti scores 1990 FPS 47.6.
 

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Oh, the card ended up costing $125.98 for the SC version after the rebate. I still have to mail it out, though.
 

Nice... money well spent imo... thanks for the update
ShoobieStomper now back to gaming!
 

No problem! Thanks again for the help! Haha, off to gaming! :-)
 

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