Saturday, March 26, 2011

GeForce GTX 590: alert the driver

Yesterday NVIDIA released the GeForce driver 267.85 devoted exclusively to the newly GeForce GTX 590. This new version, in addition to enabling support for Quad-SLI, it solves a serious problem of failure that plagues release 267.52 and 267.71 previously uploaded online and in the packet drivers GTX 590 retail.

As ascertained by us and other sites in case of overclocking and overvolt Protection System OCP (Over Current Protection), which on this model is enabled globally and not only on so-called power-virus applications, does not intervene properly and this causes a Section VRM overheating and subsequent failure of the board.


Although the new driver does not recommend the home of Santa Clara, however, to apply a overvolt than 12.5-25mV to avoid serious damage. The suggestion is also addressed to users who use a liquid cooling system. Apparently nVidia while presenting a more quiet and compact competition sacrificed factor overclocking & overvolting and has not done much testing to work out specific thing done rather than on the AMD Radeon HD 6990 offers even a mode OC "dedicated." In the web release driver of GeForce GTX 590, We have added important enhancements to Our Some overcurrent protection for overclocking.

We recommend anyone doing overclocking or running stress apps to always use the latest web driver to get the Fullest protection for your hardware. Please note That overcurrent protection does not eliminate the Risks of overclocking, and hardware damage is possible, Particularly When overvoltaging.

We recommend anyone using the GTX 590 reference board with the Aircooler stick with the default voltage while overclocking, and Avoid working around overcurrent protection Mechanisms for stress applications. This will help Maintain GTX 590's combination of great acoustics, performance, and reliability.

NVIDIA has Worked with companies to Develop Several watercooling Waterblocks for GTX 590, and "These solutions will help Provide additional margin for overclocking, But even in this case we recommend enthusiasts stay Within 25mV of the 12.5-default voltage in order to minimize risk." The GeForce 267.85 driver download is available at the following link: GeForce 267.85 Windows Vista / 7 32-bit GeForce 267.85 Windows Vista / 7 64-bit These are the release notes: This driver adds support for the new dual-GPU GeForce graphics card GTX 590 and includes support for Quad SLI if you combine two GeForce GTX 590.

Support for the Vision 3D, you must also install the controller driver v266.21 NVIDIA 3D Vision. Other Installs HD Audio driver to version 1.1. 13.1. PhysX System Software Update to version 9.10.0514.

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