so I thought I'd take a moment to talk about NVIDIA's new series of Graphics
drivers you can see it says here it's version 26.5 2 this is actually a Beta
release but the new series is the 260
series they've made a whole bunch of changes so you can see the initial
installation screen is actually completely different so you go ahead and
click install you've got some options
here's custom so you can actually uh choose which aspects you want to install
it used to be that you had to install your 3D visionri driver separately now
it's actually included in the uh in the GeForce graphics driver so you can just
say okay I don't want an HD audio driver oh and this is interesting I'll talk a
little bit more about this after uh physx 3D Vision you can actually use
this option to perform a clean install so it'll just remove everything else
that you previously had on your system and then reinstall this over top in a
way that should uh really reduce uh interference from old graphics driver
revisions so that's a pretty cool feature let's click next so it'll go
ahead and install that removing all the old stuff and then it'll install the new
stuff so there's like few big changes first of all it adds supports for
support add supports add support for the GTS 450 which you can see is here on my
test bench GTS 450 there it is if the camera will ever
focus and oh it's a beta so it comes up
with that warning and they've also improved performance on a lot of the
GeForce 400 series cards and a ton of games you can I mean you can check out
this page on NVIDIA.com if you want this is one of the coolest ones though it
actually adds HD audio output via HDMI
to some gpus so you can see the fullest
here and upgrades the HD audio driver so
that's a neat feature that NVIDIA didn't have full support for in the past it
also supports playing back Blu-ray 3D discs
when connected to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV that
is also very cool all right we've already kind of covered this they
changed the around setup so that means the uh the guide I did a while back
won't be valid anymore but hopefully all they've done is make it easier so I
don't have to do a new guide added some more 3D Vision ready
displays and some more 3D
profiles upgraded the physx software and
I think that's most of the interesting stuff is just the audio bits here so I'm
just going to move so you can read that if you don't feel like visiting NVIDIA.com as well as the improvements
to game performance so let's see if that's done
installing yep it's done installing so I'm going to go ahead and restart the
system and then I'll be back with uh my
acoustic and noise acoustic and noise
acoustic and cooling performance of the reference cooler versus the Cyclone
cooler so that's a separate video I'm working on right now and I just had to install the drivers to uh get that
running