GPU2 Folding with 177.41 or 177.84 drivers?

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GPU2 Folding with 177.41 or 177.84 drivers?

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What are you guys running on your GeForce video cards? I'm running a GeForce GTX 260 in my main rig folding 24/7 and they have Forceware 177.84 (the CUDA drivers) or the latest beta build, which is 177.41 available to fold with. I see they also have a Forceware version 175.19 out for the GeForce 9 series...

Any performance gain from using one to another?
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im runnin on the 177.83 drivers on my GTX 280...the ones nvidia had on their "power pack"(177.92) are betas and I ran into BSOD's..i haven't noticed too much of a difference from 177.41 if any though..
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I am using driver version 6.14.11.7741 XFX280.
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177.92 here. Even though they're betas, I haven't run into any problems with them. Only "problem" is that my shaders only go up to around 1850Mhz while keeping the core and memory speeds at stock. Any higher and I see black lines when stability testing using FurMark.
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According to GPU-Z 0.2.6 I'm running 177.35 drivers. No issues whatsoever and I'm averaging about *3200-3300 iter/sec according to the graphical display.

Wish I could have it going 24/7 but I don't pay the power bill.

Would I see any performance gain going to the 177.84 drivers? (Still sort of clueless at the GPU folding thing)

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I'm running 177.83 right now and not having any issues... 177.82 would lock up and give me a BSOD about 3-4 times a day... I guess I'll try 177.84 and see what happens.
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I just installed F@H and I'm about halfway through my first GPU WU on the 177.84 drivers...all seems to be going well.
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177.83 here. Was 177.84 just released?
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Re: GPU2 Folding with 177.41 or 177.84 drivers?

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I am using both 177.35 and 177.92.
With 177.92, you would be able to do other stuff ( like watching movies, viewing images ..) which cannot be done with 177.35.
Other than that, they both are stable.
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