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196.75 drivers will kill your video card
« on: March 05, 2010, 11:22:48 AM »
Nvidia pulled this driver after it was found it has been clobbering video cards, do not run 196.75!
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Re: 196.75 drivers will kill your video card
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2010, 11:32:20 AM »
Any details?
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Re: 196.75 drivers will kill your video card
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2010, 12:29:28 PM »
I'm running them and it seems to be ok....What exactly is it killing?

UPDATE:  Apparently this driver affects the fan speed control causing the GPU to overheat.  If you use a program such as Riva tuner to utilize fan profiles, you are probably ok.  I have the 196.75 drivers on my 8800GTx2 SLI and 8800GTX OC and neither have had temperature issues since I use Riva tuner to directly control the fan speeds. 

If you are unsure about your gpu temps, I would roll back to the previous driver.
« Last Edit: March 05, 2010, 01:33:59 PM by decepticon »
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Re: 196.75 drivers will kill your video card
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2010, 02:33:08 PM »
I read in some cases the fans stop all together and the gpu's are burning up.  I rolled my drivers back.
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Re: 196.75 drivers will kill your video card
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2010, 03:10:28 PM »
Wait it's Nvidia drivers that are teh suck not ATI?  Something must be going on...  :headscratch:
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Re: 196.75 drivers will kill your video card
« Reply #5 on: March 05, 2010, 05:39:50 PM »
Luckily I always keep an eye on my temps and Fan duty cycle.  If it drops, I drop everything and correct it.  LCD Studio FTW!
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Re: 196.75 drivers will kill your video card
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2010, 06:42:10 AM »
Liquid Cooling FTW! So quiet, and if something does catch fire, the tubes melt and put it out...
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