7800GTX 512 drivers

[boomstick666]

ppl. he already bought it and hes happy w/ it. so stop telling him that he got ripped off and stuff. and im totally w/ bryan64. i dont play "I'm going to wait till the next coolest thing comes out" either. if i have money and theres a product i want, then ill get it right away. i never wait. cuz waiting purely sucks.

 

[bryan64]

ppl. he already bought it and hes happy w/ it. so stop telling him that he got ripped off and stuff. and im totally w/ bryan64. i dont play "I'm going to wait till the next coolest thing comes out" either. if i have money and theres a product i want, then ill get it right away. i never wait. cuz waiting purely sucks.

Well stated Boomstick.

The only ATI card I had was the 9700 PRO. Never had anything bad happen. Just annoyances. It has been a great card overall.

So to reiterate my original question:

Which driver release will give the best performance? I have heard 81.98 is the one to go with.

 

[Dante_Caligari]

Dante, the link you gave is for the 256MB version.

Yikes. My bad. I can't find the 512MB version anywhere now. Nobody has it!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-detailsInactive.asp?Sku=B52-7810

 

[alexsabree]

Ok i feel ur pain, no one is answering your question, there all jealous of ya.... lol

i found a website with some real good drivers for nvidia and some tweeking tools as well, most people have heard of it (Guru3d)
http://guru3d.com

 

[Brtnboarder495]

There is no logical reason to buy the 7800GTX 512.

The 7900GTX will beat the 7800GTX 512, and be cheaper and OC better. It's going to be released in a few days.

The X1900XT will OC to X1900XTX speeds very easily (and costs only $500), and will most likely beat any 7900 series card.

Your best bet is the X1900XT.

 

[boomstick666]

ya forceware 81.98 is the one u should use. the one came w the GPU (i guess its 81.85?) is outdated. i updated to 81.98 about 2 months ago and all the bench went up. (like 0.2fps gain..) but its kinda good to see about 300 score gain on 3dmark06 just to change the driver.

 

[Dante_Caligari]

I am going to save for the 7900GTX.

 

[bryan64]

81.98 it is then. Thanks.