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Nvidia 180.70 drivers

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Hgradio

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I gave them a try and got mixed results.. The dual 9600 GSO's gained about 100ish ppd, however the 260 lost 3kppd or more lmao. The 8800 GTS's remained about the same ppd and temp. They seem to be stable but the verdict is still out.
 
Hgradio said:
I gave them a try and got mixed results.. The dual 9600 GSO's gained about 100ish ppd, however the 260 lost 3kppd or more lmao. The 8800 GTS's remained about the same ppd and temp. They seem to be stable but the verdict is still out.
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3000PPD drop for the 260?!?
Did I read that right? That's what, a 50% drop?? :eek: :confused:

 
I normally get about 6300 on a 5506 depend on what clone etc. and was running 2100 to 2300 on two of them. The first was about half done when I installed drivers and dropped to 2300ish right away. YMMV I messed with the shaders and so forth even stopped the WCG. Tried reboots. I am no expert but seemed to really effect the 260 big time. I might add that the 260 is on an MSI socket 478 board but it still normally runs 6k even with the WCG going. Btw. just look at my ppd for Fri snicker.
 
This is a scary drop in ppd for a 260. Did you see the same thing happen with the current 180.48 WHQL drivers or just the newer 180.70? I'm still running the 178.24 drivers on my 260.

 
Please, someone chime in. :eek: This has got to be a bad dream (nothing to do with nVIDIA vs ATI cards :rolleyes:) Is this normal and does anyone know how this driver affects the 9800GX2 :confused:

Folding and WCGing for the CURE

 
HighYield said:
This is a scary drop in ppd for a 260. Did you see the same thing happen with the current 180.48 WHQL drivers or just the newer 180.70? I'm still running the 178.24 drivers on my 260.

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On WU 5506 there was a 500ppd drop with 180.48 and 180.60 compared to 178.24 each GTX 260 card.
I recommend staying with 178.24.

 
my 260 was runnin about 2300, this was using the 180.48s. I found that it was clocked at 400MHz for the core, and nothing tried would allow me to OC. nVidia performance would act like it was loading clocks, but no change, Riva Tuner would say the I had to enable OCing, but no matter how many times I rebooted, OCing would not be enabled. I didn't waste time with 180.48 or RT 2.20. I promptly booted to safemode and driversweeperd both off my rig. I'm back on 178.xx and 2.11 drivers and RT for now.

 
jfb9301 said:
my 260 was runnin about 2300, this was using the 180.48s. I found that it was clocked at 400MHz for the core, and nothing tried would allow me to OC. nVidia performance would act like it was loading clocks, but no change, Riva Tuner would say the I had to enable OCing, but no matter how many times I rebooted, OCing would not be enabled. I didn't waste time with 180.48 or RT 2.20. I promptly booted to safemode and driversweeperd both off my rig. I'm back on 178.xx and 2.11 drivers and RT for now.

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Sounds like your card got stuck in 2d only mode.

 
I'm running GTX280's in Tri-SLI and the 180.48's gave me a HUGE improvement in SLI performance in all games, but it was most noticeable (of course) in Warhead.

I'm now running 3840x800 (I have a triple widescreen setup) with 8AA at better speeds than before with no AA. I took it up to 16AA just for fun and lost maybe 3-4fps(!).

The 180.48's totally unleashed my Tri-SLI potential. My settings in Warhead are: all Enthusiast except Gamer: texture and shadows.

Yay.
 
Kondor999 said:
I'm running GTX280's in Tri-SLI and the 180.48's gave me a HUGE improvement in SLI performance in all games, but it was most noticeable (of course) in Warhead.

I'm now running 3840x800 (I have a triple widescreen setup) with 8AA at better speeds than before with no AA. I took it up to 16AA just for fun and lost maybe 3-4fps(!).

The 180.48's totally unleashed my Tri-SLI potential. .
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Awesome performance on your multi-monitor setup. It makes one wonder what took nVidia so long to develop and release drivers that take advantage of Tri-SLI, a technology they touted so much.

What has your folding performance been like with the new drivers?

 
I just wet myself......

Kondor999 that is a crazy rig.

Do tell on folding!

 
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