PCI-Express 2.0 and PCI-Express 1.x:

The latest Club 3D Graphics Cards designed for PCI-Express 2.0 are fully backwards compatible to work with PCI-Express 1.1 motherboard slots. Motherboards designed with PCI-Express 2.0 slot will also work with PCI Express 1.x graphics cards.

Setting up a PCI VGA card:

If your VGA card with PCI Bus Interface does not boot, you may have a PCI resource conflict with onboard graphics or another onboard device.
Mainboard bios settings:
Please make sure you have changed primary graphics adapter boot setting from onboard VGA to PCI device.
PCI Slot:
Install the PCI graphics card into another PCI slot to reduce the possibility of shared resources with other devices.
Mainboard BIOS update:
Please check with your mainboard vendor for latest bios version. The new BIOS may also solve a possible PCI resource conflict issue.

Power Supply requirements:

Latest VGA cards are using more electrical power. A more powerful graphics card requires a more powerful power supply. Especially on High-end VGA cards and multi VGA card setups we strongly recommend the use of high quality power supplies. Cheap high rated power supplies are not suitable for High-end VGA cards and will only cause instability problems and rendering errors. Do not only look at the power rating. Look for the different +12V rails capable to run high at values. Please always check out our system requirements first.

Product driver/bios update:

To update your product driver you need to browse to our driver download webpage. To frequently update your VGA card BIOS is not necessary. BIOS updates for VGA cards are only needed in some extremely rarely cases for bug fixing or some other cases. We do not recommend to update the VGA card BIOS with BIOS image files available on the web. If you still want to update your VGA card bios please make sure your product matches the bios file. It must be a 100% match with memory amount, memory brand and graphics processor.
* Please note flashing a VGA card with a BIOS not supplied by Club 3D will void the warranty of your product

Driver removal:

1. Click on Start, then Control Panel and then go to ‘Add/Remove Programs’
2. At the top of the list you should see several ATI/NVIDIA entries. Select the entry entitled ‘ATI Software Uninstall Utility’ / ‘NVDIA Driver Software’ and click ‘Change/Remove’’
3. You will be prompted to restart your system once the uninstalling is complete’
4. Once restarted, check the Add/Remove Programs list again for any remaining ATI/NVIDIA software’
5. If any ATI/NVIDIA software is still listed, click Change/Remove on those entries to uninstall each one individually’
6. Reboot your operating system

If you still have some driver software entries leftover we suggest to use one of the following applications to clean your system from old previously driver leftovers:Driver Sweeper (www.phyxion.net),Driver Cleaner (www.drivercleaner.net)

Application issues:

Note that a lot of the problems can be solved by using the latest VGA card drivers and the latest Windows updates. Therefore visit our driver support page and read the “how to install the driver guide� printed on those driver download pages. Visit Microsoft Windows update page frequently to keep your windows installation safe and up-to-date. Always remove software and drivers through the add/remove program utility in your Windows control panel. Check your favorite games for the latest game patches. Update your software application to the latest version available, you may also check the FAQ of the software vendor.

Random system crashes:

• Use WHQL drivers for all components of your system
• If running on AGP, disable AGP fastwrite and change to AGP 4x
• Remove old VGA drivers
• Update your mainboard drivers and BIOS and use latest VGA driver
• Use a free power line if your VGA card requires external power
• Never connect a VGA card to the same power cable that is also connected with your hard disk or other devices
• If you are using a PCI-Express card with external power connector, use a PCI-Express compliant power supply with special VGA card power cable
• For Multi VGA card setups, make sure that your power supply meets the system requirements and that your power supply is equipped with needed amount of PCI-Express power cables
• Check if your system and VGA card is free of any dust
• Make sure the VGA card fan is running at load

Graphics Card Sizes:

To assemble always the right graphics card in concerns of available space in a PC case, Club 3D publishes the dimensions of all their products. The specific dimensions of a product can be found on the respective product page under specifications. All dimensions are listed in the metric system in the following order length*height*width. Below you can find an example how we measure our products.