FWIW I run a GTX460 in an i7 Win7/64 based system - P6X58D-E mobo (put together about 3 years ago). While I noticed very high DPC spikes in the earliest releases of the Nvidia drivers for this family of display cards, the last few releases including the current one (331.65) do behave very well (DPC peaks here are <100 micro seconds). But even the couple of releases with the high spikes never made the entire system unstable. I also have the Nvidia Gforce Experience and Control Panel running (next to AVG Internet Security). I probably do not handle as much graphic cards as Neal does but I would not panic if you happen to have an Nvidia card in your system, just keep the drivers updated and if something does not work out on your system, roll back! There are bios settings for the motherboard that have a far greater impact on system stability than graphics drivers (but I agree that every way of keeping DPC's low helps).
Happy new year to all and keep enjoying your Flex! Guy - on4amg ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: "Paul" <paul.hamra...@verizon.net> Aan: "Bill Roberts" <k8...@comcast.net>, FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Verzonden: Donderdag 2 januari 2014 22:43:54 Onderwerp: Re: [Flexradio] NVIDIA Video Card? FWIW I use an NVIDIA GTS450 and have never experienced any problem whatsoever. Running PSDR on an intel mobo with an i7 cpu....go figure. Paul Delaney - K6HR http://k6hr.dyndns.org:8080 -----Original Message----- From: FlexRadio [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Bill Roberts Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 1:39 PM To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] NVIDIA Video Card? I have an NVidia GT 530 on my 3.4 GHZ 12 GB RAM Dell 8300. I also have noticed most of the DPCs arising out of NVidia. I have disabled most of their add-on like the End User Experience piece and the gaming piece. My sense is that if Neal doesn't install them, I will not do so in the future. My biggest DPC downer is Carbonite, which I disable most of the time. In fact, think I'll can that subscription when it expires. Bill Roberts Vicar - St. Augustine Lutheran Church We beliveve that St. Augustine Lutheran Church has been called by God to make disciples through Word and Sacrament from among our family, friends and community and throughout the world. To accomplish this, we will conduct our worship, teaching, fellowship, and outreach with special emphasis towards the family. That focus will be directed in such a way as to share Christ's love with the church and unchurched in our community. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
