Geforce 180.48 WHQL (BIG BANG II) RELEASED

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This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 200-series, 9-series, and 8800-series desktop GPUs.

Exciting New Features:

* Enables NVIDIA SLI technology on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards with the following GPUs: GeForce GTX 280, GeForce GTX 260, GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 9800 GTX+, and GeForce 9800 GTX.
* Enables NVIDIA SLI Multi-monitor support, giving you the ability to use two monitors with your GeForce graphics cards in SLI mode. Now you can easily switch between multi-monitor desktop mode and full screen 3D gaming mode.
* Enables NVIDIA PhysX acceleration on a dedicated GeForce graphics card. Use one card for graphics and dedicate a different card for PhysX processing for game-changing physical effects.


Blazing Fast Performance:

Boosts performance in numerous 3D applications. The following are some examples of improvements measured with Release 180 WHQL drivers vs. Release 178 WHQL drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):
Up to 10% performance increase in 3DMark Vantage (performance preset)
Up to 13% performance increase in Assassin's Creed
Up to 13% performance increase in BioShock
Up to 15% performance increase in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Up to 10% performance increase in Crysis Warhead
Up to 25% performance increase in Devil May Cry 4
Up to 38% performance increase in Far Cry 2
Up to 18% performance increase in Race Driver: GRID
Up to 80% performance increase in Lost Planet: Colonies
Up to 18% performance increase in World of Conflict

And More:

* Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, and OpenGL, including 3-way and Quad SLI technology.
* Supports CUDA.
* Supports Folding@home distributing computing application. Download the high performance client for NVIDIA GPUs here and join the NVIDIA team: #131015.
* Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.
* Includes numerous 3D application compatibility fixes.

Vista flavour:

32-bit http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_180.48_whql.html
64-bit http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_180.48_whql.html

XP flavour:

32-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_180.48_whql.html
64-bit: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_180.48_whql.html
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Anyone tried these yet?

source:
http://www.x64bit.net/site/board/index.php?showtopic=6272
 
bigd54 said:
^^^^With these new drivers am i bettter going with an 4870x2 or like a nvidia 280x.260x
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TBH man, I'm not sure. An X2 will stomp a GTX 280 anyday and by quite a bit. But for single cheaper cards between 4870 and 260, I'm actually thinking about selling my 4870 for a 260 but that means new motherboard if I want SLI. Nvidia's new GTX series has awesome architecture and they weren't stupid enough like ATI to hinder the performance of DDR5 ram by a 256-bit bus, nvidia still uses DDR3, but they have a 448-bit bus so it gets all the bandwidth possible. Not to mention the built in Physics, as drivers get better and better I lean more and more towards a 260...

If you're building a system, I'd go for either a 260 or 4870X2 if in your price range.
 
bullzi said:
TBH man, I'm not sure. An X2 will stomp a GTX 280 anyday and by quite a bit. But for single cheaper cards between 4870 and 260, I'm actually thinking about selling my 4870 for a 260 but that means new motherboard if I want SLI. Nvidia's new GTX series has awesome architecture and they weren't stupid enough like ATI to hinder the performance of DDR5 ram by a 256-bit bus, nvidia still uses DDR3, but they have a 448-bit bus so it gets all the bandwidth possible. Not to mention the built in Physics, as drivers get better and better I lean more and more towards a 260...

If you're building a system, I'd go for either a 260 or 4870X2 if in your price range.
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I think that would be supremely stupid. First of all, the 4870 is quite a bit better, at a much better price. Second of all, these claims do come straight from nVidia don't they? I would think they're somewhat exaggerated.
 
I'm seeing slight increases in performance in grid and crysis. Fallout seems to run about the same. Glad to see my card is still able to max all the games, Crysis had me worried, lol.
 
Your both wrong. I've seen test where the GTX 260 C216 STOMPS the 4870. And even out performed the 4870x2. OH?
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Right. I've seen a test where Radeon 4830 stomps 4xGTX280 in quad-SLI. Point? Links or it didn't happen. GTX260 stomping the 4870 or ouperforming the 4870 just sounds a little off to me...
 
oregon said:
I think that would be supremely stupid. First of all, the 4870 is quite a bit better, at a much better price. Second of all, these claims do come straight from nVidia don't they? I would think they're somewhat exaggerated.
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How is that supremely stupid, have you seen the benchmarks?? And no they are not just from Nvidia.
 
cpt.obvious said:
Probably but still blow me away. Numbers don't lie. 4 outta 5 people I talked to told me to go with the 260. Even said it out performs the 280 in some tests. I should add it's the Xfx 260 c216 Black edition.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150330
Check it out yo
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How will it outperform a gtx 280, flawed logic here. The Gtx 260 is basically a 280 with cores disabled, the 280 has more stream processors, 512bit memory bus vs 448mb memory bus, high ram clocks, etc. So whoever told you the 260c216 beats a gtx280 is just plain wrong, and downright unreliable.
 
bomberboysk said:
How will it outperform a gtx 280, flawed logic here. The Gtx 260 is basically a 280 with cores disabled, the 280 has more stream processors, 512bit memory bus vs 448mb memory bus, high ram clocks, etc. So whoever told you the 260c216 beats a gtx280 is just plain wrong, and downright unreliable.
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Ya that's crap, I agree with ya man. There's no way in hell that a 260 is faster than a 280 that'd be the stupidest marketing I've ever seen..
 
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