what driver should I use for BFG 6800GT for best gaming

[TheGoat Eater]

Are they all modified? -the ones beyond 71.84 any help would be great-I have 71.84 right now

 

[fstime]

What ever is on Nvidia's website.

If you're really desperate for performance, try the XtremeG drivers out.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

the xg 76.45b I tried out dropped 3dmark05 about 400 points -whats up with that theare supposed to be good aren't they?

 

[ddogg]

it dropped points for me as well....dont use them...just use the standard drivers from Nvidia

 

[TheGoat Eater]

doing some more testing of different drivers and came back to 76.45b and the weird thing is that Riva Tunerv2.0's hardware monitoring program shows me something interesting - I set the clock to 424/1.15 using coolbits and then I look at the hardware moniot and it shows the instant change in clock speeds and all is fine for about 26 seconds and then it gets weird - the the core clock drops down to a pre-tweak speed of 369.0 but the memory clock is still holding at 114.7 and continues to hold fine

My question is what is up with this?

and to ddogg - what the hell? how did you get up to 510/1200 with the gainward 6800 Ultra, you watercooling?

 

[BFG10K]

71.89, and don't concern yourself with 3DMark scores.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

then what should I use to test the drivers?

 

[BFG10K]

Real games!

 

[TheGoat Eater]

where is a good place to go for comparing results and get a baseline for comparitive other systems - is ther a place that has a system like futuremarks comparing system?

 

[BFG10K]

You could try the website whose very forums you're posting at: anandtech.com

There are hundreds of other websites like toms, xbit, firingsquad that have thousands of benchmarks.

 

[TheGoat Eater]

thanks

 

[TheGoat Eater]

-what the hell- I just put in 71.89 and I go to coolbits and turn up the heat to 425/1150 and I go to RivaTuner v2.0 and got the same drop of in core clock -but when I opened up 3DMark05 the core clock throttled up to 425 so - is this normal to be idle at lower speed then throttle up to speed when I open up a game or graphical program? or could it be that one of the OCing programs is keeping the core clock down while idle?

 

[TheGoat Eater]

yeah I got ahead of myself - did some gaming last night and while playing every game it throttled up to 425 core while playing every game and then went back down to 369 core while idling - probably a temp control/reducing feature right?