Switching from Gigabyte 6870 to Sapphire 6870 Toxic.

[QTom]

2 months ago my graphics card broke, after a lot of hassle, phone calls and emails FINALLY they have done something other than saying "NEXT WEEK LOL" and said I can have any 6870 on their website that is in stock.

These were the choices: [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/search.aspx?q=HD+6870[/url]

I had to make the decision kind of fast so I looked at some reviews and ended up going for the overclocked Sapphire HD 6870 Toxic.

2 Questions.

1. Did I go for the right card?

2. Probably a stupid question, but will I have any problems going from Gigabyte to Sapphire? Or just uninstall gigabyte drivers, install Sapphire.

[Legend286]

Well the drivers are just generic ATI ones if I'm not mistaken, so as long as the card model is the same, and going into the same PCI-E slot you shouldn't have any problems just swapping them (I had this when I moved my gtx480 to the 2nd slot, I had to reinstall drivers because windows detected it as a new device.)