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I installed the new NVIDIA DRIVER a few days ago...285.58,a HOT Driver designed to run the game BATTLEFIELD 3..Of which is no interest to me. But thinking its new and up to date!Well to make a long story short...at the mechanic.now,and my Game Card BURNT OUT!...Seems ya need a REFRIGERATOR to use it!??.BAD News!..good News its under Warren tee.....There is "DANGER DANGER" out there..I stepped on a BATTLEFIELD3 game land mine...
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...will keep you informed of this!!
 
From what I gather, 275.33 was the last driver that was reasonably stable and not likely to fry a card. The 28x.xx drivers have picked up a bad reputation. I tried a 560ti-SOC, it barely made it two weeks when it self-destructed and that was with the 275 driver! I don't know what's going on, but Nvidia seems to be having a lot of driver problems and lots of problems revolving around the 560 cards. That's why my old 8800GT-OC is back in my computer and running the old, yet extremely good, 182.50 driver. Oh, EVGA sent me a replacement card, I've just been too chicken to give it another go.
 
Mine is 260.99 for my GTX 260 and runs FSX just fine, which is all I care about, thus I have no reason to "chase the update wagon".

Same driver for both Xp Pro x32 and Win7 Pro X64 in my dual-boot system.

Paul
 
I have using the 275.33's with a 560ti since the driver first came out and have never ran into any problems yet . (Win64 version) A couple times a week I run HWMonitor.exe that checks CPU and GPU temps and at idle the 560ti generally averages 27C and under a full load , low 30's . It's the coolest running GPU/driver combination I've ever had . Visually the 275.33's do a fairly good job with an occasional quirk here and there so I decided to stick with them . I use to change drivers every time a new one would come out but stopped after these . I too have had drivers ran run the card hot but as someone mentioned above , it seems like everything after the 275 series and especially into 280 series drivers , they have not been a stable platform for FSX .

Rich
 
I read here at SOH about the concerns of frying the video card when using the 28x.xx drivers, so I held off installing anything that was not whql certified. Since the latest v285.62 was released WHQL, I took the gamble since my video card is still under warranty. Knock on wood? No problems here and they have been installed since release.
 
The Rest Of The Story.....Driver 285.62Win 7....game card Ge Force 9800.....This until I get a replacement new card from the warranted supplier!....NICE!...thanx guys!<label for="rb_iconid_20">
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Running Ge Force 560 Ti with 282.58 with no problem. Series 200´s as well.
Perhaps you should use SmartDoctor to control temperatures and fan speeds on graphic card? Some times a little noisy when hot, but always under control...
Regards
 
The first and best set for mine is the one that came with the card. I figure they had all the parts in front of them when they made the thing so it was probably the best fit. I've tried newer sets twice just to see and have had to put the old ones back each time.
 
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