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If you read my post, you would have seen that I said their page was broken. The link to get the driver brought me to a broken page with code errors on it, leaving me no way to get them through that method.
I did manage to download them from their site, but had to go through ridiculous hoops just to GET the drivers, let alone what I had to do to install them.
Don't insult someone using false assumptions.
~Lordbob
If you are to buy a GTX 260
I would go for a 216 cores ones if you can find one. Higher clock and more cores than the standard one...
Also, I own Alien vs Predator. ( a good game on my opinion, thought the multi still broken)
and BFBC2.
Both use DX11 features and I would like to experiment it but my GTX 260 XFX Black Edition (216 cores, Overclocked) is only directx10 wich is lame on my opinion. Still a good card thought, I run everything, except empire total war that I run almost at max but not at max... (here I'm also limited by my Q6600 I think)
I would go for the GTX 260 if you intend to game.
128 bit memory, 1 GB < 896 MB - 384-bit architecture.
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I'm not 100% sure but I think that I read somewhere that the 260's with DX10 are DX11 compat.Also I forgot to mention that don't worry about purchasing an OC version of the 260's. I have the Palit GTX260 Sonic 216Sp and they have the OC availability with drivers included on install cd. Or you could get a free software for monitoring your video card. If you plan any type of OCing your going to need to monitor fan speeds and temps. I use MSI Afterburner instead of the one that came with my card and I use the 196.21 Nvidia driver.
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/
what are the new cat control drivers like (10.3)?
i keep wanting to get the ati because i do think you get better value for money and allthough having amd and nvidia dont make any difference (a friend has a nvidia card on an ati chipset) i like the fect that i will have an amd/ati system, and i want to get a red fan. plus the 5770 has got a much better clock speed. and it dosen't use as much power. only disadvantage is the CCC issues, but maybe that is solved in 10.3? also i think it depends on your other computers hardware because some poeple are reporting theres is working fine.