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NVIDIA card drivers are a simple matter to install. Simply insert the card(s) into available PCI Express X16 slot(s) and set the SLI selector to either single or SLI mode depending if you have one or two cards in the system. Once Windows boots install the latest Forceware drivers (in this case 77.72) and you're good to go. If you have two cards installed, you need to enable SLI by going to the SLI multi-GPU tab in the display drivers and check the "enable SLI checkbox". After a restart you should be good to go.
NVIDIA drivers are easy to navigate and pretty self-explanatory. One nice thing about NVIDIA drivers is everything is accessible from one menu. To change the settings, simply click the NVIDIA icon on your taskbar or right-click your desktop and go to Advanced, Settings. Click the GEFORCE 7800GTX tab and you can change AA,,AF load a profile, change your refresh rate and resolution, enable SLI and more.
Test System 1 Standard Comparisons
- Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition
- Asus P5ND2-SLI motherboard
- 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667 memory
- 2 74GB Western Digital Raptor SATA hdds
- Windows XP with SP2
- DirectX 9.0c
- XFX 7800GTX running 77.72 Forceware drivers
Test system 2 SLI
- AMD Athlon 64 4000+
- Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
- 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR400 memory
- 2 74GB Western Digital Raptor SATA hdds
- Windows XP with SP2
- DirectX 9.0c
- XFX 7800GTX running 77.72 Forceware Drivers
- SLI XFX 7800GTX running 77.72 Forceware drivers
Test Software
- HL2 Anandtech Canal and Coast Timedemos 1024x768 32 bit no AA no AF, 1024x768 32bit 4x AA 8x AF, 1280x1024 no AA no AF, 1280x1024 4x AA 8x AF
- Doom 3 Timedemo 1 1024x768 no AA no AF, 1024x768 4x AA 8x AF, 1280x1024 no AA no AF, 1280x1024 4x AA 8x AF
- Far Cry 1024x768 no AA no AF, 4x AA 8x AF, 1280x1024 no AA no AF, 4x AA 8x AF
- Serious Sam The Second Encounter Little Trouble Demo
- Aquamark 3
- Final Fantasy XI the Benchmark 2
- Gunmetal Benchmark 2
- 3DMark 2003
- 3DMark 2005
- Halo 1.07 Patch
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