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[Doobrey]

Waccoon wrote:
I seriously think many crashes are unfairly blamed on Windows when drivers are the culprit (nVidia comes to mind.  Their newest drivers SUCK!)

Yup, I`m with you on that one..especially the nVidia bit.
Last week I updated the drivers for my GeForce card. Since then I`ve had no end of random resets and BSODs..
 Then I noticed my gfx card was so hot, I couldn`t touch it for even a second. I checked the speed settings of the drivers and found the newer drivers had doubled the standard memory clock of the card  :pissed:
 Still can`t believe the card survived being overclocked that much.
 I suppose this also goes to disprove the earlier comment that because a piece of software is newer it must be better.

[Doobrey]

Waccoon wrote:
 I'm not surprised they've resort to shadow overclocking in an attempt to get their speeds up.

 I wouldn`t call what it did to my card "shadow overclocking", seeing as it set it to double it`s original rate.
 Before my card was warm after a couple of hours gaming, but after the new driver it felt like it had just come out of an oven, even the PCB was too hot to touch.
 Anyway, I clicked on the "restore default" button, and it then set both memory and core to 0 Mhz ! :-x
 So I`ve gone back to the older (and slower) drivers, but at least my system is stable again.