Black screen that must mean it's a bank holiday wknd

[Kildren]

Sound like the 7950 is bad then which is a double wammy because gpus atm are like gold

[Donkey]

As it stands I put my GPU in the system, 1 beep and it booted to desktop after some windows recovery stuff.
The resolution was low. I set it to 1080 and it looked fine.
I checked the temps and they are cool. 34-37.
Task manager showed everything running normal apart from the GPU which wasn't listed at all.
Will this be because the old GPU was an AMD 7950 with AMD drivers and I put my Nvidia GPU in without drivers?

Yes, without drivers you will get all manner of odd behaviour. As Kildren says tho, GPUs are like gold ATM. You can, however, still get something like an Nvidia 730 (£70 or so) or a 1030 (£100) fairly easily - although neither are as powerful as the 7950. I guess it depends on what your son plays on his pc.

[Welshy]

thanks for your help gents. i know GPUs are very difficult to get atm but i'd prefer the only old part in the pc which i wanted to replace anyway to have died and not one of the new parts. luckily it doesnt seem to have taken anything with it.

AMD 7950 2011 -2021
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