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Aleksha McLoughlin

How to upgrade a graphics card

The Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU being held.

Learning how to upgrade your graphics card is one of the most important things that you can do as a computer builder. One of the highlights of PC gaming is the modularity, as soon as your aging video card starts slowing down, you can just replace it with one of the best graphics cards, upgrading your rig significantly.

With that said, there are quite a few things to go over before you upgrade your graphics card in your rig. Namely, you'll want to know how to remove a graphics card from your machine safely, after you've learnt how to uninstall a graphics card driver, ready for the new one you're slotting in. We're going over everything you need to know further down the page.

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