I bought a XFX GeForce 9600GT Nvidia video game card. Its a refurb I got off TigerDirect for pretty cheap. Unfortunately it didnt come with a driver disc. Does anyone know a site where I could download a driver for this thing. I've tried the XFX's site. I cant seem to find the product # . I think they quit making this particular v/c. I guess thats why it had such a nice price on it hehehe lucky me. Thanks Heath
Just go to Nvidia you should be able to get a driver that works from there. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
You could also use Omega drivers which are modified Nvidia drivers for better performance. OmegaDrivers.net - Home of the ATI & NVIDIA Omega Drivers. NVIDIA
I would only use those on an EVGA card that is covered under warranty no matter what. I blew up two 9800GTXs OCing and EVGA took them right back and sent me new ones! Woo!
The beauty of Nvidia is that typically they have one driver which supports all their video cards. ATI on the other hand . . . :crasy:
Okay guys. I've got the drivers downloaded onto my laptop and then sent it to my jump drive. I've never installed a video card. Is there anything I need to know about how i'm suppose to go about doing this properly. Do I install the card, turn the computer on and then install the drivers or do I install the drivers , install the video card and then turn it back on? The motherboard is a ASUS M3N78 Pro. Which slot does it go in? PCI Express PCI Express 2.0x 16 Thanks guys.
The video card will only fit in a specific slot. I believe the one you have is a x16 card and your motherboard only has one PCI Express x16 slot. So that makes that easy. Install the card then boot the system. Windows will should recognize the new card. It will probably use a default driver. Plug in your USB drive and install the Nvidia drivers.
Okay thanks. One more question. Memory type on the specifications says DDR3. I'm running DDR2 in this computer. Does that matter?? Thanks
Nope. The DDR3 is graphics memory on your video card. That's different than the DDR2 memory on your mother board. No need to worry about it.
Yeah, you're all good with what you have. As he was saying the DDR3 is just the RAM running on the vid card itself.
Cool thanks guys!! Thanks for all the help. This is the first computer that I built. I ordered a EVGA 8800gts for my 3rd computer build. Its gonna be a monster. Well, I hope it is anyway. The previous two I built were AMD phenom x4 machines. The new one is gonna be a Intel i7 core machine. That 8800gts will be compatible with it right??? Looking at either a EVGA motherboard or a ASUS P6T v.2. Thanks
You shouldn't have any issues with the 8800gts. I have the EVGA 8800gts myself and have enjoyed it very much with no hiccups. It's OCed quite a bit with the settings reflashed to the card. I do need to upgrade to an i7 at some point though!
I was looking at building a AMD 955 DDR 3 machine, then I ordered 6gigs of DDR3 ram designed specifically for the i7 processor so, I decided what the hell, and just decided to build a i7 desktop. So far i've got a OCZ modular 550wt power supply, videocard, ram, Seagate 1tb harddrive, case fans, CPU cooling fan. Ordering the case friday. Future plans - i7 920, P6T mb, Blu-Ray drive, and Windows7. I hope it all goes together good. I think it will be quite a monster.
It always starts out small then you just start making little upgrades here and there and before you know it you've built a monster. I tend to that that with a lot of things, lol.
LOL. Yeah, you and me both man. I was just gonna put a regular dvd writer in it and though, wth. I will probably wind up giving this other one to one of my nephews or something.
Got the video card installed. I put Sin City in the dvd player. WOW. Impressive. Picture looks great on the 22in LCD. Seems to really have awaken the beast!!!!
