Need guidance on installing drivers for two un-identical Nvidia GPU's for rendering

[S_K_I]

Long story short: I've currently got a GTX 780Ti currently installed and will be adding a 970 for my Sabertooth x79 board. I plan to use the 970 as my primary display and for viewport, while the 780Ti will be my primary renderer. Main reason for this configuration is for the output color display 4:4:4:4 chroma 4k 60hz which the older Kepler generation wasn't able to do. Now the question I have is how do I go about installing the drivers for the 970 and 780Ti together?

• Do the drivers have to be the same version (like 417.22 for example) but specific to each model #?
• Can I simply insert the 970, boot to windows, and install the drivers?
• Will I need to use DDU and uninstall everything first?

If anyone is familiar with this process, let me know what the protocol here is because I've scowered the internet for 20 minutes with little info on this simple procedure.

[savage309]

Usually the NVIDIA forums would be better for such advices, but what I do is just insert the new GPU, check if it is found by the OS, and if it is not, update to the latest GeForce (in this case) driver.
Very rarely when there is a problem (like boot issues or something), you can always boot in safe mode later, use DDU to remove all drivers and do clean install.

Best,
Blago.

[waaazoo]

I have a 2080 and a 970. I installed the driver (one of the latest) for the GTX2080 and the 970 is just fine. In my case the 2080 is used for primary display.

[S_K_I]

Sorry for late reply. Just installed the latest drivers for the 970, shut the computer down and put in the 780 Ti, booted up and it automatically worked perfectly. Hopefully this info helps other newbies doing this for the first time.