Driver test NVIDIA nForce Unified drivers 3.13

[Ed]

Planet 3Dnow has some benchmarks on page 4 of their article,
Driver test NVIDIA nForce Unified drivers 3.13
http://tinyurl.com/tucu

Cheers,
Ed

 

[Rob]

Thanks for the link, Ed. I'm gathering the review appears to say, "If
it ain't broke, don't fix it". There were no significant improvements
shown except for the IDE drivers, which the writer says can be installed
separately. I have to say, using SiSandra and 3DMark, my numbers tend
to agree with this review as far as my system goes. Actually a slight
(300 point) loss in 3DMark score for me with the 3.13. I also wonder if
some of the install problems people are having are because they
previously had Realtec Audio drivers installed, as mentioned in the Article!

Rob

 

[Rob]

A quick check shows me that almost all the ASUS nVidia boards have the
Realtec ALC650 audio chip except for the A7N8X Deluxe and the A7N8X-VM.
So, unless your using a separate sound card with it's drivers, you
might try removing the AvRack/Realtec software and drivers before
installing the 3.13 drivers. The new drivers are supposed to have
support for ALC655 Codec included in the Audio package. I can't verify
this since I have a Deluxe, so if someone tries this please post results.

Rob

 

[Ed]

I installed the 3.13s over my current setup last night, using an audigy2
in a non-dlx a7n7x (bios 1004), so far so good, need to do some real
world testing but I'm too lazy right now. ;p

FWIW I ran HDTACH 2.61 and Sandra 2004 Std LAN test a few times.

Drive: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA
HDTACH - CPU%/Burst/Average/ms
2.45 9.6%/90693/40436/13.3ms
3.13 8.0%/91490/40473/13.4ms

Sandra LAN A7N8X to PC#2
2.45 9880 Kb/S
3.13 9600 Kb/S
Sandra LAN PC#2 to A7N8X
2.45 9390
3.13 9370

Cheers,
Ed

 

[iamnotme]

I have a related question...please advise me...

I cannot find anywhere on the ASUS website (for my A7N8X/plain Rev.2 mobo)
support/drivers for "nForce2" (ie. to get the Ultra400 Memory
Controller)...so I assume nVidia is the only support for those drivers? I'm
currently running on a very old nForce2 driver set (v.2.0).

The v.2.45 nF2 drivers were the 1st (I believe) to add support for the
Ultra400 Memory Controller...the latest nForce2 version at nVidia's website,
is version 3.13 and many are reporting issues installing (so maybe i'll
install the 2.45 1st?).

ALSO...

I have an ASUS V8420 Deluxe video card (using ASUS driver v44.71A) . The
nForce2 website recommends uninstalling all nVidia drivers using
Add/Install. Would I have to uninstall anything, because it's ASUS's drivers
I use for display and capture?

OR ... during installation is there a "custom" install? Where you can choose
which drivers to load? I would just exclude "display driver" from updating
(and audio drivers 'cuz i have a sound card), and then I wouldn't have to
uninstall my display and vid-capture drivers 1st? 'cuz they advise
uninstalling any nVidia drivers first.

Wow...that was a lot...hope I was clear enuf.
Thank you in advance for your assistance & Cheers!!

 

[Erik Harris]

Thanks for the link, Ed. I'm gathering the review appears to say, "If
it ain't broke, don't fix it". There were no significant improvements
shown except for the IDE drivers, which the writer says can be installed
separately. I have to say, using SiSandra and 3DMark, my numbers tend

So after all this time, they still haven't fixed their broken SoundFont
support? That's basically the only reason I wanted to upgrade to these new
drivers - When I bought this motherboard, SoundFont and DLS support was
promised, but did not work.

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