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  • klusark - Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - link

    You have the desktop 32 and 64 bit links switched.
  • JarredWalton - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    Fixed, thanks.
  • FearfulSPARTAN - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    both driver sets are for windows vista
  • FearfulSPARTAN - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    my bad desktop and mobile, did not notice
  • andy5174 - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    For GTX460/465/470 64-bit go to:
    http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/49948
  • andy5174 - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    I think they create a different driver to keep locking the highly OCable 460 which was sold at a great price. p.s. 850/1700/4000 OCed GTX460 is not stable for all drivers after 275.33.
  • andy5174 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - link

    Still unstable, confirmed! It didn't even pass the first graphic test in 3Dmark and clocks are set back to default after the failure.
  • Spoelie - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    Was wondering what driver is used in the bench results for each card, and when a card gets retested with a newer driver? Currently there's no (clear) indication of either.

    Especially during the early life of a card, driver performance increases are plentiful, and without that information, the numbers provided by bench are not reliable for purchasing decisions.
  • CeriseCogburn - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    Don't worry, as we see with this nVidia release by the article, no performance increases matter at all.

    GeForce GTX 680:

    Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City
    Up to 15% in Dragon Age II
    Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
    Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch)

    GeForce GTX 560:

    Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City
    Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI
    Up to 4% in Dragon Age II
    Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI
    Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2

    That equals zero, remember that.
  • Patflute - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    If you end up hitting 30 every frame counts to an overall smoother experience.
  • Patflute - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    for*
  • Barnassey - Thursday, October 11, 2012 - link

    Does this fix the driver not responding and has recovered errors 560 Ti owners have?
  • Magnus101 - Friday, October 12, 2012 - link

    That error was fixed in an earlier driver, which I'm using right now without the problems you mentioned (which I had and was forced to use the 275 drivers before).
    I think I use the driver just before this one right now.
  • Lerianis - Sunday, October 14, 2012 - link

    In most games. Perhaps there is more of a 'difference' with a newer graphics card/chip.
  • Sivar - Monday, October 15, 2012 - link

    It looks as if this release may have a few kinks to work out. My EVGA Geforce 580 is apparently unsupported hardware.
  • nleksan - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - link

    I am just finishing up my first big-budget build in a few years (3930K/R4E/GTX670FTW all custom-liquid), and while I am still "catching up" with the hardware developments over the past few years, based on the architectural differences (actually, lack thereof) between the 680 and 670, am I in the "right" to assume that these performance increases will apply to the 670 as well as 680?

    I would like to be able to load the "best" drivers available when I first install Win7 Pro64 so that I don't have to deal with any driver issues ("Oh No! Never install W85r3u29384f-point-1, everyone knows that point-0.6541 is 2.98521% better, and you must now reinstall Windows while simultaneously reciting the Microsoft Bug-Free Prayer* while offering the great Gates a sacrifice in the form of a 1TB hard drive that must be dropped from a 28-story building and impact the ground at the exact same microsecond as you finish reciting the prayer AND Windows 7 completes the 3rd part of its installation; otherwise, you will never get it to work again!" *found in Book113, Appendix XXVI, Pages 891-to-1,214, Lines 34 through 78,910).

    I'm just excited to get this bad boy up and running, because I have quite a few years' worth of games to catch up on!

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