Nvidia on verge of releasing revolutionary new drivers

[FarFarAway]

Nvidia will be releasing some spanking new drivers that will kick some serious ass....once r520 comes out

Called the Re180 - they'll support a multitude of goodies such as Multi-Vendor SLi (enabled in forceware 80.XX), SLi for cores with different clock speeds (so you can Max out the overclock on both cards), forced SLI Vsync on all combinations and games, HDTV support, full SLi Linux Support and dual core support.

Wait a minute - did I juist say dual core support??

Its rumoured that nvidia has thought that its about time graphics drivers got into d/c like the rest of the world and so:

First of all, Rel80 should give your spankin' new dual core system (or an oldish Athlon MP) a new life, since the drivers are supposed to be multi-threaded, and offer some performance increase over single-core systems. As we have already seen on a out-dated, single-threaded benchmark named 3D Mark2001SE, a dual-core CPU can beat a single core one (4800+ broke 30K, 4000+/FX-53 can't) - and that's just the beginning.

Ummmm - damn w00t!

HDTV:

Second of all, HDTV. With Rel80, you can freely connect your SLI setup to a standard or HD TV device, and play in whatever resolution you want. With speed of SLI, of course.

OMFG - thats damn awesome. Nvidia have done a great job if this is true :worship:

Linux

Thirdly, of all, Linux. From Rel80 onwards, Linux has full SLI support, so if you're have thought that penguins live on south pole only, those around the world can now spend money on putting an SLI setup and running... well, UT2004 and America's Army at least.

So that's sweet new for linux users

Oh and did I mention that some have seen a 10FPS difference with the new drivers?? NO/ Well: some have noticed up to a 10FPS speed increase with the new drivers :yumyum:

There is more information on Rel80, and the date of official posting is drawing near. Check www.nvidia.com[/url'] on the eve of...p=cb529f9ff479823c57defdbb80c97498]Guru of 3D

Full article @ The Inquirer

 

[FragTek]

Very nice! I do love in the first part where they compare an $850 cpu to a $375 cpu... roflroflrorofl, thought that was hillarious

Other than that these things should be a hit!

 

[Eguy]

THANK GOD!!!! FINALLY!!! Hope this fixes it so that everytime I fly in fs2004 it doesnt lockup an crash my comp!