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    Vid Drivers?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Chase.Barnett, Jul 13, 2008.

  1. Chase.Barnett

    Chase.Barnett Notebook Evangelist

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    You guys have any suggestions/preferences for nvidia drivers and from who?
     
    Chase.Barnett, Jul 13, 2008
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    The only ones I could get to work with x64 were 177.41.
     
    KGann, Jul 13, 2008
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    The people in that thread all seem to recommend 177.41. Do you plan to overclock? I can tell you that I had that driver and not only did it crash ntune with most OC's, it messed up the powermizer so that it would downclock the gpu while running gpu-intensive apps including benchmarks.

    If you plan to OC, I HIGHLY recommend 177.74.

    Edit: I'm running x64 Vista.
     
    Danja, Jul 13, 2008
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    Actually, I just got 174.74 to install. This was my favorite driver, aside from the beloved 175.19, but my 3DMark score went down into the 6900's... :(
     
    KGann, Jul 13, 2008
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    Which driver lowered your score, 174.74 or 175.18?
     
    Danja, Jul 13, 2008
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