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GTX 580 driver

GTX 580 driver
« on: April 18, 2011, 11:17:00 pm »
Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum.

I have a GTX 580 (GV-N580UD-15I) and am wondering if I should only use the drivers provided by Gigabyte or can I also use those directly from nVidia web site ?
In other words, do Gigabyte personalize their drivers for their cards or do they use nVidia ones ?

Cheers,
Enguerran

Dark Mantis

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Re: GTX 580 driver
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2011, 07:07:44 am »
Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Unless you have one of the OCed cards then the nVidia drivers should, work fine. ;)
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Re: GTX 580 driver
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2011, 07:24:23 am »
Thanks for the quick answer!

Mine is sligthly OCed:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/comparison/list.aspx?ck=3&pids=3625,3684

Anyway, I'm staying with Gigabyte drivers for the moment.

Cheers

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Re: GTX 580 driver
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2011, 07:31:06 am »
Yes I would say that is the favourite thing to do then.  :)
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: GTX 580 driver
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2011, 02:16:08 am »
Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Unless you have one of the OCed cards then the nVidia drivers should, work fine. ;)

Why is this? Are the drivers under the gb download section the same as on nvidia site?  They look the same for this card.

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Re: GTX 580 driver
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2011, 09:08:14 am »
I think most of them are the same apart from some may be tweaked for the various OC cards etc.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy