Gainward Vs. Nvidia Drivers

[GimpTG]

I have a Gainward GeForce 2 TI and was looking to upgrade my video drivers. Should I get the Nvidia drivers or the Gainward? or does it matter?

 

[Mem]

Gainward drivers may give you some extra driver software features like in the control display panel,however most people use the standard Nvidia reference drivers,I`ve actually been using Nvidia drivers with my Leadtek card rather then Leadtek drivers.In the end it`s really your call on what you prefer.

If you do decide to use the Nvidia drivers,make sure you remove the old Gainward drivers first and disable any anti-virus program before install.

 

[Mem]

To give you an idea what I mean,my Leadtek GF2 Ti has hardware monitoring of temps etc,however I`ve to install the Leadtek driver software to use it,with the reference(using 43.45 at the moment) Nvidia drivers I don`t have the option but it`s really a minor issue and the stability and layout of the Nvidia drivers which I like, more then makes up for it.

Btw I`ve just checked Leadtek`s website and they are still listing 31.xx drivers for my card,so you can see by using Nvidia drivers you will always have the newest and latest version a lot quicker.

 

[snik]

Why not have best of both worlds? Here is what I did on my old Gainward GF3 Ti: install Gainward software, monitoring, gpu/mem overclocking tools, and drivers. Then go to advanced settings for your video card and unistall the drivers (all software will be kept). Now install latest detonators. Voila!

 

[BFG10K]

Use nVidia's reference drivers whenever possible unless you absolutely can't live without your OEM's special features.