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CPU-Z 1.52 Final
# New design with "Graphics" tab.
# New 64-bit version.
# NVIDIA nForce 980a chipset support.
# Intel Core i5 and Core i3 processors.
# Intel Atom Z530, Pentium DC E6300 (2.8GHz) and Core 2 Solo processors.
# Intel P55 and US15W chipsets preliminary support.
# AMD Phenom TWKR support.
# AMD Phenom X2 "Callisto" and Athlon X2 "Regor" processors.
# AMD Opteron 6-core "Istanbul" processor.
# Improved support for Windows 7. ...

release note >http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_97_release_notes.pdf

vista 32bit > http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... on-vista32
vista 64bit > http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... on-vista64
win7 32bit > http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... ws-7-32bit
win7 64bit> http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... ws-7-64bit

Directly from Nvidia ....

Nvidia Geforce/ION 190.38 Beta Driver

New in Release 190.38

Adds support for OpenGL 3.1

Adds support for CUDA 2.3 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA Zone for more details.

Adds a new user-controlled power management setting for GeForce 9-series and later graphics cards. This option allows users to set a performance level for each DirectX or OpenGL application.

Includes several new control panel features and numerous bug fixes. ...

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Edit: I was not the thread starter, even though it appears that way.

Spammer Alert Chris - 10 posts and counting

Wanna find out how hot your video card can get without catching on fire, try this ...

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/14 ... 1.7.0.html

FurMark 1.70 Released ....

New: FurMark is now able to get detailed data from GPU-Z (if GPU-Z is running). In both Stability Test mode,
GPU-Z is used to display additional information (GPU core clock, memory clock, GPU temperature and power consumption).
In Benchmarking mode, GPU-Z ...

Like the Box, but if I ever resold one of those cards on Ebay, shipping cost would be a bitch ...

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14453/1/

Nvidia ready, AMD/ATI to follow

A while back, or to be precise, in January last year, Mushkin has announced its first graphics card, the Geforce 8800 GT XP. As of today, it looks like Mushkin is getting more serious about this part of the market ...

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

We have just released ATI Catalyst™ 9.6 for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux platforms on http://www.amd.com

Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 9.6 Windows release include:

Performance improvements

Company of Heores – performance gains of up to 25% for the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series, and performance gains of up to 10% for the ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series.
Crysis Warhead – performance gains of up to 11% for ATI CrossFireX™ configurations. ...

Nvidia Geforce/ION - 186.18 WHQL Drivers

XP 64-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_186.18_whql.html

XP 32-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_186.18_whql.html

Vista or Win7 64-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista...86.18_whql.html

Vista or Win7 32-bit
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista...86.18_whql.html


Release Highlights:

This is a beta driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs and ION GPUs.

This driver supports all of the new GPU-accelerated DirectX APIs in Windows 7: DirectX Compute, Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXVA-HD.

New in Release 186.18

* Numerous bug fixes. More information can be ...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Demonst...09-113199.shtml

Press Release

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/Virtual...~131424,00.html


AMD Demonstrates World’s First Microsoft DirectX® 11 Graphics Processor

AMD previews significant improvements to the digital media and gaming experience, commits to bring DirectX 11 to market first −

COMPUTEX 2009, Taipei — June 3, 2009 — At a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) publicly demonstrated the world’s first Microsoft DirectX® 11 graphics processor. The series of demonstrations shed new light on the significantly improved computing experience ...