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Hi folks! I'm new here to this forum and thought I'd start off with a question (or two) about updating my vid drivers.

First off, my system specs.

OS: Win XP SP3

MB: Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 4600+ NVidea nForce 570 SLI Socket AM2 (940) (not sure of the driver version but I haven't updated that since I installed the OS back in Nov. 2009)

Vid Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256 ...

I found these modified Nvidia drivers via another forum & they gave me a nice performance boost to
where Vantage scored over 23000! :9:
So If you'd like to give the Xtreme-G nVidia Drivers a go, you can download them from the link below.
http://www.tweakforce.com/modules.php?name=Downloads

I finally upgraded my graphics card with a EVGA GTX 470 Superclocked Edition & I must say "WOW" what
a increase in performance from my old 8800GTS card! :shock:
I've been beating up on this card for the past week at its highest OC settings & it's running strong
so I don't think it's going to fail on me & I got a "good'n" out of the ...

Version: 257.21 WHQL
Release Date: 2010.06.15

This is the first driver release from the Release 256 family of drivers (versions 256.xx to 259.xx). This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. Learn more about Release 256 drivers here .

New in Version 257.21

* Adds support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology. Learn more about the hardware and software ...

For those that want to keep up with the latest & greatest Nvidia has release Forceware v257.15 beta for download.
I've already installed & tested these drivers & they are rock solid & improved on my 3DMark Vantage score which is now P7420 for my 8800GTS. :9:
These new drivers also offer up new settings in the control panel that were previously unavailable, one of which ...

nv finally came out with its new vid cards.. new egg dont seem to have them yet.. id like to see some ati match up bench marks my self..

well here ya go-..>

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/ ... sli_review

this photo and stats is from evga product page..>

http://www.evga.com/articles/00528/

Performance

NVIDIA GTX 480
725 MHz GPU
480 Processing Cores
400 MHz RAMDAC ...

Read this over at TRP (thanks, I_G!) Apparently they are killing Nvidia cards. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7551&tag=nl.e539 Nvidia is recommending to roll back to the 196.21's.

I was just poking around the web and ran across some info on the new 40nm 300 Series Tesla GFX cards.

If this is true WOW, they will be sweet!! :yahoo:

Heres the Article and Link:: http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... tml?cat=15

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Nvidia Gtx 300 Series - Specs Leaked and Updated

Specs | Directx 10 | Directx | Nvidia | Gtx ...

Just a week after releasing the 'certified' 190.53 driver, Nvidia has rolled out a new beta driver specifically aimed for Linux users. This latest version (195.30) has support for GeForce 6 and newer cards, and features:

- Fixed a performance regression with non-antialiased text in KDE4.
- Enabled GPU acceleration for many RENDER compositing operations that were previously processed in software, including conjoint and disjoint blending modes and component alpha blending.
- Added experimental GPU ...

New in Version 195.62

* Adds GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta. Learn more here.
* Adds support for GeForce GT 240.
* Adds support for OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
* Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.0 features and performance enhancements. See CUDA Zone for more details.
* Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for many top new gaming titles including ...