New Nvidia Beta Drivers Fixes Fan Issue

[IncinX]

[citation][nom]logan87[/nom]Your right...but it's all good. Just put a new card in my computer and installing drivers as I'm typing this. Was a good reason to buy a new card![/citation]

Was it a shiny new Radeon 5870?

 

[utgardaloki]

I downloaded the 3D vision version of this driver. Battlefield BC2 didn't run too well in 3D before this. Now sli works and all rendering problems using 3D vision have been resolved. Works like a charm now and much better performance.

 

[Guest]

Yes, all drivers are downloaded "AS IS" but try and tell that to 3rd Party tech support. I'm sorry I don't download the 'latest drivers' as is step #1 on ALL troubleshooting guides. Sorry, it is reasonable practice to run the latest drivers especially when you get a new game/try to get an old game working, get new HW, etc. I know ATI has its own problems but as of now they have not destroyed any of my property, and until they do it is ATI for me from now on. (Burn my card once, shame on you, burn my card twice, shame on me for being stupid enough to install another one of your cards.)

NVidia sent me to EVGA and EVGA said it was not their problem, so . . . I don't have ready cash to subsidize a destructive lack of technical skills and an equally destructive lack of customer 'care'. I know I will get a 'don't let the door hit ya' response from allot of people, but I do build a PC or two a month and from now on they are all ATI; and I will be signing on to the class action suit when it comes. Believe it or not all it would have taken was a 'yeah, we blew it, but we can't cover all the damage we did, here is a $5 or $10 coupon code and we hope you accept or apologies', but this 'tough luck' approach is too much. Bye, Bye, NVidia

 

[nicklasd87]

@ChuWolf,

I could care less what brand of card you buy, I try to keep the mindset of buying the best at the time, regardless of the brand. With that said, it doesn't sound like you handled yourself properly with evga. I know they offer a decent manufacturer warrenty, I actually got a new gtx280 relitively quickly by rma'ing a damaged one, and thats after registering it the day it broke...you just need to make sure you have a receipt from purchase. Wasn't difficult for me since it was saved on Newegg. It's not like you overclocked your card anyway...if you did than that voids the warrenty off the bat...if you admit to it...

 

[nicklasd87]

Dam, I hope this means that I won't have to lower the clock speed of my current borderline stable overclock...4-5 degrees celsius will bring it to 90C...

 

[utgardaloki]

@nicklasd87

Dam, I hope this means that I won't have to lower the clock speed of my current borderline stable overclock...4-5 degrees celsius will bring it to 90C...

Have you raised the fan speed? If not just download nvidia's system tools or riva tuner or what ever and set the fans manualy.

 

[logan87]

I for one would be interested in how it turns out, please keep us updated.

I contacted EVGA again, as I never got a response from them the first time. I stated how the driver fried my card and it was the driver they had listed on their website. My card is out of warranty, but they approved a 1-time RMA for me! The replacement card will have a 30 day warranty.

 

[rooket]

Logan, why on earth did you buy an Evga card WITHOUT lifetime warranty? lol! that is almost an oxymoron 1+1 warranty is fine for people who upgrade their video card often. But 3 years? hmm no

come to think of it, even my Geforce4 still is backed by lifetime warranty and it gets no use at all but I had to exchange it 3 times so I think the warranty worked out well for that one

 

[Mousemonkey]

I contacted EVGA again, as I never got a response from them the first time. I stated how the driver fried my card and it was the driver they had listed on their website. My card is out of warranty, but they approved a 1-time RMA for me! The replacement card will have a 30 day warranty.

Schweeet!, way to mate. Lets hope it never happens again huh?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The term "bleeding edge" didn't come about for no reason. I had numerous clients who were shut down when XP SP2 disabled 200 programs, AutoCAD being among them. Patch Tuesday is the day I get notification of what Windows updates I will install in the next 7-10 days. I always wait at least a week before installing anything new figuring no need for me and mine to be among those bleeding. Same thing for "Rev A" hardware; no thanks .... don't need to be the first one on the blcok w/ the new generation GFX card....I'll wait a few months for Rev C Hardware also taking advantage of non reference board availability, and missing the pleasure of immature drivers.

As to the alleged speed increases, I have to think you are not going to see that "in the game".....I'm thinking much of this comes from GFX card vendors tweaking the drivers to perform better in very specific situations.....that is on standard demo benchmarks and scripts used to "rate" GFX cards.

 

[majorgeek]

Glad I did not jump on the new driver as I usually am bad about that always wanting the latest drivers thinking I will gain performance. I will wait awhile now after this little fiasco.

 

[Nutjob]

These drivers messed up my resolution, after I installed them I could not see my taskbar and desktop gadgets, it was like it zoomed in, and yes I reset my resolution and it still didn't make a difference. So I had to go back to using my older drivers.