The Gadget Blog » NVIDIA http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog Gadget News - Gadget Reviews - Gadget Tech Specs Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:49:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 NVIDIA Releases Drivers for Windows 7 RC1 http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/nvidia-releases-drivers-for-windows-7-rc1/ http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/nvidia-releases-drivers-for-windows-7-rc1/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 03:11:00 +0000 Rico Mossesgeld http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/?p=4189 Post from: The Gadget Blog

]]> Coinciding with the release of Windows 7 release candidate 1 (today for MSDN and Technet subscribers and on the 5th for the laymen), NVIDIA has released drivers for the OS. The package comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors The tech-heads over at Anandtech declare version 185.81 “much more polished” than 185.71, released for the first beta version of Windows 7.

geforce_gtx_295_low_3qtrWhy is this development important? Well, anyone wanting to run their NVIDIA graphics cards properly on Windows 7 will obviously need this. Which cards are supported? Let’s take a look at the release notes (a more detailed version is available here):

This is a beta driver supporting GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, and 200-series desktop GPUs. This driver package installs WDDM v1.1 for GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series (DirectX 10) GPUs and WDDM v1.0 for GeForce 6 and 7-series (DirectX 9) GPUs.

This driver supports all of the new Windows 7 GPU-accelerated DirectX APIs: DirectX Compute, Direct2D, DirectWrite, and DXVA-HD.

Download GeForce Driver Release 185.81: 32-bit and 64-bit versions

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]]> http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/nvidia-releases-drivers-for-windows-7-rc1/feed/ 0 Your Video Card Buyer’s Guide for Spring 20 http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/your-video-card-buyers-guide-for-spring-20/ http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/your-video-card-buyers-guide-for-spring-20/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:00:36 +0000 Rico Mossesgeld http://www.everyjoe.com/thegadgetblog/?p=3868 Post from: The Gadget Blog

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Unless you don’t believe what the folks over at Anandtech have to say (and they know their stuff), their new video card buyer’s guide for this North-Hemispherean spring will be quite useful. Especially since it’s got recommendations for a variety of price points:

Price Product
$75 ATI Radeon HD 4670
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
$100 Wait for a month!
$150 ATI Radeon HD 4850
$165 ATI Radeon HD 4870
$180 An ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
NVIDIA GTX 260 Core 216
$180 – $280 Errr…
$280 – $400+ ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB

Hmmm… looks like ATI’s winning the current round of the never-ending battle between the maker and its arch-rival NVIDIA. According to Anandtech lately, that’s a value-for-money matter, and not performance.

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