Nvidia ready R180 Drivers
"Named 'Big Bang 2', and will introduce new features and perfomance boosts, NVidia ready their new driver release."
Published: 5th August 2008 | Source: Nvidia |
Nvidia are to release the new ForceWare R180 drivers in September. With some new features and performance boosts, Nvidia have named the upcoming release 'Big Bang 2'. There will some big changes regarding SLi, the first being SLi multi-monitor support. This will allow users to run more than one monitor when in SLi mode, which will be a bonus for multi monitor gaming. Nvidia have also made changes to how cards can be paired up, with users now being able to pair cards like AMD/ATI users can. You should be able to pair a 9800GX2 with a single 9800GTX.
The new drivers will also come with the OpenGL 3.0 API, which is a major improvement and has been delayed for over a year now. Some new video features are included. PureVideo Transcoder, a GPU-accelerated video encoder and 10-bit DisplayPort on Windows Vista. The DisplayPort is said to achieve the colour level offered by HDMI 1.3, the so called "billion colours". GPU Physix for older Geforce cards support will also feature.
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As nVidia's only entry into DDR3 with no bugs i've found I've cannot see them pulling this at all.
Would nVidia really hand the market to Intel? NO :o
1. The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business.
2. In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms:
1. Mercury Research has reported that the NVIDIA market share of AMD platforms in Q2 08 was 60%. We have been steady in this range for over two years.
2. SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability.
3. nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI. In fact, a recent article on Tom’s Hardware recently came to the same conclusion: [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...I,1977-29.html[/url]
3. We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms.
There was some absolute idiot canvasing every forum yelling (yes i actually mean CAPS his posts and telling people off for not listening to him) that to get the problem fixed you must fiddle with the GTLREF voltages. The 790i allows 36 changes to each GTLREF voltages which for me means 4. That means to do 1679616 reboots to check all the combinations for his so-called sweet spot. Upon everyone saying the chipset should be stable at stock voltages otherwise it is defective he then began claiming he was a performance system builder for a high profile performance computer maker in america and this was his job. Needless to say he was talking scheiBe and a BIOS update fix the early chipset bug.
On a good note the BIOS update has fixed the problem and no problem threads i was subscribed to has been updated since doing the BIOS, so that should mean we are all ok. BIOS boot time is significantly faster. Also now they have had time, nVidia have done the link chip properly and new boards are perfect from the get go.
790i is a new chipset development, different to the other "7 series" chipsets (780i, 750i).
The chipset you're referring to which uses a 680i chip is the 780i board.
Hope this clears things up a touch. :)
EVGA nForce 790 Ultra SLi or a Blackops board,
Im leaning towards the first, any suggestions? have a 2-SLi GTX 280 config and DDR3 RAM, 2000MHz, thanks in advance for ur views.
Ollie
its not called the blackops, and as the article says, you cant buy it...
Interesting, I guess it doesnt matter then what I call it then if no-one can buy it anyway!
I'd still call it the blackops ! but meh,
Problem solved I've gone for the eVGA 790i Ultra Sli instead, thanks for the help.:worship:
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