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Installing the WHQL 186 drivers on Windows 7 64-BIT (BootCamp)

MythicFrost

MythicFrost

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Hey, I've bought and installed into my computer the NVidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB for Mac, it's a great card, I'm on Windows 7 at the moment, if I install the WHQL 186 drivers, will it affect anything on the Mac side? does it manipulate the card or do anything that would make it windows only or damage it etc..?

This is the link: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_186.18_whql.html

Kind Regards
 
Great, I was just thinking, some things can "over clock" or modify the graphics card, it won't do that will it, change any settings on it? or something?

Kind Regards
 
Can't the software (drivers) do it without me knowing though? I just want to double check to make sure that this won't happen, I'm not modifying anything, but I do know you can download programs that OC stuff (from NVidia), I want to make sure there new driver software that improves everything isn't modifying the card..

Kind Regards
 
I don't see where your concern is coming from. It requires significant user intervention to overclock the card via software and even more so for modifying the video BIOS.

What gave you this idea in the first place?
 
Just worrying I guess, I don't understand much about how things are modified, I do know drivers are software though, so it can't effect OSX but I was worried it might change graphics card stuff!

At the bottom of the page on the link I provided it says:

Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

so I thought if software can change it, perhaps that's something the drivers might do..

Kind Regards
 
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