NEW Nvidia ForceWare 71.80 Beta

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   1 Feb 2005 ~ 6:30pm Ghaleon4 Does anyone know how well these perform with Half-Life 2, among other games? Any improvements? Perhaps only improves the latest cards? Works best with a specific game? Any and all information folks can volunteer on this will only help everyone...
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   1 Feb 2005 ~ 6:42pm Drummerboy I have an athlon64 3200+ and a geforce 6800gt. while these drivers were really fast (half-life 2 + 10 fps, Doom3 + 6 fps, 3dmark2005 +800 marks over the 67.03 betas). On the downside, my card ran much hotter with these drivers (who knows why. driver fan thottling?). My desktop temp went from 58 to 68 degrees. during gameplay, my core temp reached 80. not so good. So, in conclusion, these drivers will set your system on fire, both literally and figuratively.
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   2 Feb 2005 ~ 4:43pm Ghaleon4 Are you talking about your video card temps?
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   3 Feb 2005 ~ 6:21pm Drummerboy Yup. core temps of my card.
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   6 Feb 2005 ~ 5:53am manwithabeard I got the same result, faster fps but core temp up 10c ??????
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   6 Feb 2005 ~ 6:18am Geeky1 It's entirely possible that the new drivers are simply more accurate than the old ones. It's not likely that they're actually raising the gpu temp.
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   7 Feb 2005 ~ 9:51am Guesty Or it could be that the drivers make more efficient use of GPU resources. If the various execution units of the chip are kept busier by the 71.80's, then it would stand to reason that the core temp would rise.