forget XP build-in driver (for your Geforce), go with Detonator driver, and
forget manufacturer driver too. usually, manufacturer drivers are out of
date, you can download much better driver from the net, all under Detonator,
either official or beta. For your case, use official 21.83 driver might be
the best (23.11 may not as good as 21.83 in your case, or you could try one
of beta drivers).

You also need to upgrade mobo chipset driver, to make the most out of what
you paid for.

you can leave NIC and SCSI driver untouched (since they are not new
hardware), XP build-in support is fine. but, I suggest you use latest NIC
driver from 3com.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Loomis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:15 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Driver question


> Hi all,
>  Now for the question. Is there any
> advantage to using drivers from manufacturers vs. the drivers that were in
> XP? I read all the time about "Detonator"? drivers for Gforce cards.
Drivers
> for NIC? Some times the old saw "if it works don't fix it" applies, but
then
> again don't we love to tweak and mess with our machines to eek out a
modicum
> of additional performance?
> System is:
> ABIT KG7
> XP 1600
> ABIT Siluro MX T400
> SB Audigy
> Adaptec 2940UW
> Adaptec 2906
> 3- Cheetah UW drives
> Plextor UltraPlex 40 SCSI
> Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32S
> 3Com 3C905-TX-M

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