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Old January 19, 2010, 09:44 AM
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Default NVIDIA GeForce Forceware 196.21 WHQL Drivers Released

NVIDIA has released the 196.21 WHQL certified drivers on its website this morning for all the green machines to download with glee. Especially happy will be those with SLI systems as this latest update adds support for SLI profiles for numerous titles along with updates to its Physx software. The driver supports for GeForce and Ion products. &... [ Read full article ]
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Old January 19, 2010, 05:29 PM
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Also of note, new nVidia system tools 6.05 came out today, too!

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Old January 19, 2010, 11:15 PM
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version of system tools... that was released alongside 195.62
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Old January 20, 2010, 04:11 AM
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I heard its been giving some people EUEs on GPU folding for certain previously stable OCs
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OC via Riva/Afterburner/Precision is broken in these.
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Old January 20, 2010, 05:15 AM
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I will wait a couple of weeks to see how many folks complain in the Foldingforums.
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Old January 20, 2010, 05:28 AM
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im going to wait with this download too.. see what other people say about it before i go for it
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Old January 20, 2010, 05:35 AM
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OC via Riva/Afterburner/Precision is broken in these.
Thanks for the info.... Just spent a good part of the night trying to work out what was going on with my new build.... thought there was something going on with ASUS specific drivers being required, but I guess it was just this particular build of the Nvidia drivers...... ;)
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This is why i tend to just stick with whatever is CUDA approved so i don't lose work units to EUEs especially when i'm not at home to babysit it.
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I will wait a couple of weeks to see how many folks complain in the Foldingforums.

Yea i'll wait too to see if they've fixed the bricking issue.

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