Wow, what ever happen to doing some QA before you release? Nvida seems to have a problem with trying to move faster than they should in order to keep up with ATI and this is what happens when you let the little things like properly testing a driver get pushed aside to speed up a release.

Yeah I agree, although it used to be the other way round... hence ATI's bad driver reputation.

Actually, I have those drivers, with a 9800gtx+, and after a few days of normal gaming, I had no issue with the temperature or the speed of the coolers.

Wow am I ever glad there is no automatic update for this. I still have 196.21. I only check maybe once a month (sometimes longer) for new drivers. I don't know what I'd do if my computer failed (got permanently damaged) due to overheated components. Hmmm...maybe it would be a good thing...maybe I would read more (lol).

I havent seemed to have any problems with my EVGA GTX 275.

Does anyone know when this driver that they yanked came out? release 196.75
(Maybe I never updated to it?)

Yikes, no doubt this will cause more damage to notebook users than desktop users (which usualy has better airflow and thus compensates for the lack of fan control by the drivers).

It hasent affected me. But I do force the fan at 75% 24/7. Also im running a GTX 260 core 216

Somewhat didn't expect this from nvidia... Disappointed :x how can they let such a big problem slip out...?

a friend of mine says it heats up like crazy after he got the update... i checked up with him and yes it does.. but we have no way of measuring the temperature exactly...

Thanks for the heads up, TechSpot! I won't be taking any chance since I don't have any problem with my current driver anyway.

Looks like I've got some uninstalling to do tonight. I haven't played any games since I installed the new drivers but I don't want to take any chances.

Woha, first of a kind damage to see caused by an official driver O.o
Haven't heard of it from friends or so, though, and fortunately I haven't updated myself..

Wow, that's horrible for Nvidia card owners.
I didnt' know that drivers could cause such a wreck.

I wonder if this would explain why my 2nd PC is running like crap every since I did a reformat a couple a bit ago, and installed the newest drivers for the geforce 7300 in it.....

I agree. Who releases a driver without fully testing it in a development environment?

This is another reason why I will stick with ATI and recommend others to do the same.

I've had to replace so many faulty Nvidia cards (at least 5 that I can remember). IMO, ATI cards are built better and last longer.

I installed this driver the day it came out and have done some gaming, but not a whole lot. Glad I didn't end up in a 3-hour L4D2 session. Hope I haven't been frying my GPU....

I would love to switch to ATI but I've been told I can't run crossfire on an Nvidia chipset.

Maybe Nvidia is trying to encourage current owners to buy new cards by melting the old ones.