71.84 Drivers

[Reckoner]

d/l'ing now

 

[PrayForDeath]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
bump 71.90 drivers are now released. Looks like this might be the final release before official.

Link

Anyone willing to test these?

-Kevin

Wow, so many betas. Where are the officials!!

 

[Reckoner]

Same score as with the 71.84 versions with 3D Mark 05, temp bug is still there


Edit: Also had a couple default monitors added into the device manager.

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: zerocool84

Originally posted by: JBT

Originally posted by: jamesbond007
My 6800NU PCI-E still idles at 51C with these drivers and my 66.93s I was using before. What chipset are you guys running? What videocard bus? AGP/PCIe?

It only affects 6800GT's.

McArra I am only going on a number of people who have said this about thier GT's over on NVnews.net Who knows maybe it doesn't matter for Asus's.

i have a 6800nu and my temps jumped but yes overclocking does fix it

I notice the higher temp that nV properties shows... but can't see that it has increased any ambient temps. Doesn't mean it doesn't, just that my case temps haven't changed.

BUT, the problem I am having with these new drivers is that I canNOT change the clock speed off of default 370/1000. Even UNDERclocking it. When you click on "test" it fails every single change... even if it's underclocked to 369/1000.

So, I can't bring the temp down off GPU1. Oddly, GPU2 is correct in temp. So the "bug" only affects the primary GPU for me.

Anyone have any ideas why I can't move the clocks? I'm using the XG 71.84. I could always change the clock before with other XGs (as well as nV's with coolbits).

 

[zakee00]

Originally posted by: McArra
XG 71.84 definetly

:thumbsup:
No WoW corruption, Source works great, great 3dmark performance, great IQ, what more could you want?
Get these drivers!

 

[Reckoner]

I ended up reverting back to the 66.93 drivers. My temp reading went down 10 C, and the texture corruption I experienced in CS: S ended.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
I ended up reverting back to the 66.93 drivers. My temp reading went down 10 C, and the texture corruption I experienced in CS: S ended.

Just cause the temp READING went down, doesn't mean the actual temp went down. Have you measured the temp of the card with some kind of thermometer to verify the temperature actually changed?

 

[zerocool84]

yea i also kept gettin errors in cs with 71.84 and my temps were all crazy even after i o/c so im just goin back to 67.66

 

[Insomniak]

Using the XG versions. IQ and Performance both seem excellent.

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
I ended up reverting back to the 66.93 drivers. My temp reading went down 10 C, and the texture corruption I experienced in CS: S ended.

Just cause the temp READING went down, doesn't mean the actual temp went down. Have you measured the temp of the card with some kind of thermometer to verify the temperature actually changed?

I can't say for sure, but it offers an explanation why I would get periodic hang-ups/crashes with the driver set and then back to normality with the previous version.

 

[zerocool84]

imma wait on this one till a future update until that temp thing is fixed

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
I ended up reverting back to the 66.93 drivers. My temp reading went down 10 C, and the texture corruption I experienced in CS: S ended.

Just cause the temp READING went down, doesn't mean the actual temp went down. Have you measured the temp of the card with some kind of thermometer to verify the temperature actually changed?

I think I have some decent proof that this is ONLY a visual bug... and not an actual temperature differential.

GPU 1
GPU 2

This is an SLI setup. Those 2 cards are RIGHT next to each other. There is NO way at all that there could be a 10C difference in ambient temps from one to the other. My case has 2 thermal probes. I put one by each card. No difference. If anything, GPU1 should be hotter since it's sandwiched between the other card (whose heat would be rising into it as well) and the hot CPU.

If I move the overclock to 402, the temp immediately comes down.

 

[Tweaks R Us]

Originally posted by: deadseasquirrel

Originally posted by: Jeff7181

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
I ended up reverting back to the 66.93 drivers. My temp reading went down 10 C, and the texture corruption I experienced in CS: S ended.

Just cause the temp READING went down, doesn't mean the actual temp went down. Have you measured the temp of the card with some kind of thermometer to verify the temperature actually changed?

I think I have some decent proof that this is ONLY a visual bug... and not an actual temperature differential.

GPU 1
GPU 2

This is an SLI setup. Those 2 cards are RIGHT next to each other. There is NO way at all that there could be a 10C difference in ambient temps from one to the other. My case has 2 thermal probes. I put one by each card. No difference. If anything, GPU1 should be hotter since it's sandwiched between the other card (whose heat would be rising into it as well) and the hot CPU.

If I move the overclock to 402, the temp immediately comes down.

i tell everyone its purely cosmetic but nooooo 😛