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Which Nvidia drivers?

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Well, I was using the new Nvidia drivers, but they messed up my fan controls. So now Im using the 180.60 drivers. My rig is in my sig. Im averaging around 7k PPD according to Fahmon. What drivers are you guys using and what have you found to be the best. I have my 260 oc'd to 694gpu, 1566shader, 1188 memory.
 
Best drivers I have found to use if you don't like the 180.xx (I don't like them) are 178.24.

 
Razor_FX_II said:
Best drivers I have found to use if you don't like the 180.xx (I don't like them) are 178.24.

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Agreed, the 178.24 is a great driver IMHO. However, the 180.60 seems also great for XP boxes since it drop the CPU usage to single digits vs 100% with the older drivers.

 
Razor_FX_II said:
Best drivers I have found to use if you don't like the 180.xx (I don't like them) are 178.24.
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Besides potential performance differences, what are the other changes? Any Control Panel improvements?

Xilikon said:
Agreed, the 178.24 is a great driver IMHO. However, the 180.60 seems also great for XP boxes since it drop the CPU usage to single digits vs 100% with the older drivers.
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Does Task Manager reflect the drop in CPU usage or does it still display full usage? What advantage would the v180 drivers benefit to those who isolate GPU clients to specific cores? I don't see a decrease in CPU usage to make much difference if one already allocates a whole core to the client(s)' processes.

I'm still running v177.89 on my machines. Is there a compelling enough reason to update to either of the above??

TIA

 
APOLLO said:
Besides potential performance differences, what are the other changes? Any Control Panel improvements?

Does Task Manager reflect the drop in CPU usage or does it still display full usage? What advantage would the v180 drivers benefit to those who isolate GPU clients to specific cores? I don't see a decrease in CPU usage to make much difference if one already allocates a whole core to the client(s)' processes.

I'm still running v177.89 on my machines. Is there a compelling enough reason to update to either of the above??

TIA

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It does display the drop. I'm seeing 2-3% top right now with my 2 XP boxes.
 
APOLLO said:
Besides potential performance differences, what are the other changes? Any Control Panel improvements?

I'm still running v177.89 on my machines. Is there a compelling enough reason to update to either of the above??

TIA

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There are no Control Panel differences between 177.89 and 178.24.
there are differences between 177.89 and 180.xx like the ability to choose which Video card is running the PhysX. (but I do that in the PhysX control Panel anyway)
180.xx has fan setting issues and runs FAH slower. 178.24 is faster and no issues.
Not sure on the performance differences between 177.89 and 178.24.
 
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