1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:05,839 so I thought I'd take a moment to talk about NVIDIA's new series of Graphics 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:12,920 drivers you can see it says here it's version 26.5 2 this is actually a Beta 3 00:00:09,519 --> 00:00:14,360 release but the new series is the 260 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:17,800 series they've made a whole bunch of changes so you can see the initial 5 00:00:16,279 --> 00:00:23,560 installation screen is actually completely different so you go ahead and 6 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:26,039 click install you've got some options 7 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:29,119 here's custom so you can actually uh choose which aspects you want to install 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:33,440 it used to be that you had to install your 3D visionri driver separately now 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:37,360 it's actually included in the uh in the GeForce graphics driver so you can just 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,480 say okay I don't want an HD audio driver oh and this is interesting I'll talk a 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:45,640 little bit more about this after uh physx 3D Vision you can actually use 12 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:49,879 this option to perform a clean install so it'll just remove everything else 13 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:54,079 that you previously had on your system and then reinstall this over top in a 14 00:00:51,879 --> 00:00:59,000 way that should uh really reduce uh interference from old graphics driver 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:02,680 revisions so that's a pretty cool feature let's click next so it'll go 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:06,799 ahead and install that removing all the old stuff and then it'll install the new 17 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:10,280 stuff so there's like few big changes first of all it adds supports for 18 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:15,119 support add supports add support for the GTS 450 which you can see is here on my 19 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:21,560 test bench GTS 450 there it is if the camera will ever 20 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:23,200 focus and oh it's a beta so it comes up 21 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:26,920 with that warning and they've also improved performance on a lot of the 22 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:30,920 GeForce 400 series cards and a ton of games you can I mean you can check out 23 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:36,799 this page on NVIDIA.com if you want this is one of the coolest ones though it 24 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:40,040 actually adds HD audio output via HDMI 25 00:01:36,799 --> 00:01:43,439 to some gpus so you can see the fullest 26 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:45,200 here and upgrades the HD audio driver so 27 00:01:43,439 --> 00:01:48,799 that's a neat feature that NVIDIA didn't have full support for in the past it 28 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:55,200 also supports playing back Blu-ray 3D discs 29 00:01:51,399 --> 00:01:57,880 when connected to an HDMI 1.4 3D TV that 30 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:02,159 is also very cool all right we've already kind of covered this they 31 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:05,520 changed the around setup so that means the uh the guide I did a while back 32 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,840 won't be valid anymore but hopefully all they've done is make it easier so I 33 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:12,000 don't have to do a new guide added some more 3D Vision ready 34 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:19,280 displays and some more 3D 35 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,560 profiles upgraded the physx software and 36 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,160 I think that's most of the interesting stuff is just the audio bits here so I'm 37 00:02:23,319 --> 00:02:30,400 just going to move so you can read that if you don't feel like visiting NVIDIA.com as well as the improvements 38 00:02:29,239 --> 00:02:35,319 to game performance so let's see if that's done 39 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:39,400 installing yep it's done installing so I'm going to go ahead and restart the 40 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:42,760 system and then I'll be back with uh my 41 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:44,519 acoustic and noise acoustic and noise 42 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:48,400 acoustic and cooling performance of the reference cooler versus the Cyclone 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:54,560 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 44 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,560 running