Switching from nVidia to ATI

[jpublic]

So, I'm looking at upgrading a friend's rig from a GX285 to a AMD 6970 card, and I've never done a cross-manufacturer upgrade before, only nVidia->nVidia, which is fairly painless.

Does anyone have some tips or a procedure I should follow, or is it as simple as uninstall nVidia drivers, shut down, swap hardware, boot, install AMD drivers?

[[Jez]]

thats pretty much it, you may want to run something like Driver Sweeper to remove the last traces of the nvida drivers before installing amd's

[biosc1]

You can just swap 'em out. I do it all the time.

[AntonThaGreat]

I think you nailed it. Now that I think about it, things have gotten pretty darn simple lately.

[Grifter]

So, I'm looking at upgrading a friend's rig from a GX285 to a AMD 6970 card.

Nooooooo! They're all gonna laugh at you!

[Zecon]

Does anyone have some tips or a procedure I should follow, or is it as simple as uninstall nVidia drivers, shut down, swap hardware, boot, install AMD drivers?
That's all I did and it runs fine