Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers

wow now there is a .89. I haven't even done the .83

it looks like those are for some openGL coders and what not. not for me.. lol.

I need to just try a few and see what works out best i think. thats what I'll do my next day off.
 

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WTH! No wonder nVidia did not release the .83 publicly lol
 

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Oh. This is from nVidia Developer pages - not from the main nvidia page - that one still shows 177.79 as the latest.
 

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Oh. This is from nVidia Developer pages - not from the main nvidia page - that one still shows 177.79 as the latest.
This special page allows direct access to the new drivers for Siggraph attendees -- the drivers will become part of the standard release NVIDIA Graphics drivers in the days immediately following.
These drivers were meant to showcase the new OpenGL 3.0 and for developers to get a head start on the new technology, but they will be releasing these to the public in a couple of days.

I usually do not keep up with the unofficial drivers since they usually pour out every week or so, so I just stick to nVidia's official drivers (WHQL and Beta) because that's what nVidia meant for the user to have. Either way, I posted this up for your enjoyment.
 

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Hi All.
I installed the 177.83 drivers yesterday and they seem great. I have a BFG 8800GTS 512MB and they are running it well.
Not sure what PhysX actually does but I downloaded Warmonger and it certainly looked very good and extremely detailed.
I blasted my way through loads of partitions of wood and concrete and even tried to blast a hole in a wall and might have succeeded if I hadn't run out of ammo but then got a bit bored with it after about an hour as I had no clear idea of what my objective was and the game got repetitive. I'll have another look at it to see if there are any info buttons to tell you what you're aim is.
Then I played Half Life 2 Lost Coast. This isn't really suposed to play on my rig-it needs 2.9Ghz and my Q6600 only provides 2.4. However the game ran fine and looked gorgeous and I played for about 2 hours.
So after 3 hours of intense gaming I'd had no crashes or freezes and RivaTuner told me the core temp was 77, up from an idle in the early sixties.
So I'm pleased with the .83 so far but can anyone tell me how I tell if this PhysX is working?

Best wishes: to you all, John:D
 

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Hi All.
I installed the 177.83 drivers yesterday and they seem great. I have a BFG 8800GTS 512MB and they are running it well.
Not sure what PhysX actually does but I downloaded Warmonger and it certainly looked very good and extremely detailed.
I blasted my way through loads of partitions of wood and concrete and even tried to blast a hole in a wall and might have succeeded if I hadn't run out of ammo but then got a bit bored with it after about an hour as I had no clear idea of what my objective was and the game got repetitive. I'll have another look at it to see if there are any info buttons to tell you what you're aim is.
Then I played Half Life 2 Lost Coast. This isn't really suposed to play on my rig-it needs 2.9Ghz and my Q6600 only provides 2.4. However the game ran fine and looked gorgeous and I played for about 2 hours.
So after 3 hours of intense gaming I'd had no crashes or freezes and RivaTuner told me the core temp was 77, up from an idle in the early sixties.
So I'm pleased with the .83 so far but can anyone tell me how I tell if this PhysX is working?

Best wishes: to you all, John:D

:)....... control panel / view 32bit control panel / Nvidia physx..
 

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Not sure what PhysX actually does but I downloaded Warmonger and it certainly looked very good and extremely detailed.
I blasted my way through loads of partitions of wood and concrete and even tried to blast a hole in a wall and might have succeeded if I hadn't run out of ammo but then got a bit bored with it after about an hour as I had no clear idea of what my objective was and the game got repetitive.
I couldn't believe what I was reading since he had a 8800GTS 512, so i went back and downloaded Warmonger from nVidia's powerpack and it seems that they finally optimized the game for use with GeForce PhysX. I was playing smoothly at default settings (which were set to low). Then I ramped everything up to high plus a max res. of 1680*1050 and I was getting good frames ("stat fps" into console gives you the time between each frame. i was averaging 25-15ms which is anywhere from 40-66fps in offline training team deathmatch in the first map). I have an 8800GT OC'ed to 675/1675/950
 

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Ya I played warmonger a few weeks back on my 260 and it was choppy. Crysis ran better.. lol so maybe your right and it's not optimized for Physx. but now it is.

Oh and JohnWilly, thats not good news. You just told us that after 2 hours of Playing a game Coretemp said your temps were 77 Degree's. is that on all 4 Cores of your Q6600. 77C is to high, and should never get above 70c. ever.

your at 70 Celsius right.? or did you say 77c in Rivatuner, so that means your Graphics card is at 77. if so then thats ok. the Videocard can reach that temp, but your CPU should not. You can turn the Fan on your 8800 GT up mpre, cuz my 8800 GTS never got above 65C ever. Are you using the Stock cooler than came with your Q6600?? and you do know that you could easily make that Q6600 run very stable at 3.0 GHz 24/7 and then that game would look even more beautiful. What mobo you got.?

Maybe I should try Warmonger again. lol
 

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    eVGA/MSI GTX 260 SLI
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Hi All.
I installed the 177.83 drivers yesterday and they seem great. I have a BFG 8800GTS 512MB and they are running it well.
Not sure what PhysX actually does but I downloaded Warmonger and it certainly looked very good and extremely detailed.
I blasted my way through loads of partitions of wood and concrete and even tried to blast a hole in a wall and might have succeeded if I hadn't run out of ammo but then got a bit bored with it after about an hour as I had no clear idea of what my objective was and the game got repetitive. I'll have another look at it to see if there are any info buttons to tell you what you're aim is.
Then I played Half Life 2 Lost Coast. This isn't really suposed to play on my rig-it needs 2.9Ghz and my Q6600 only provides 2.4. However the game ran fine and looked gorgeous and I played for about 2 hours.
So after 3 hours of intense gaming I'd had no crashes or freezes and RivaTuner told me the core temp was 77, up from an idle in the early sixties.
So I'm pleased with the .83 so far but can anyone tell me how I tell if this PhysX is working?

Best wishes: to you all, John:D

Wrong, John. According to Half-Life 2: Lost Coast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia you need a ***Pentium 4 2.9 GHz, with HT - which is a single core processor with Hyper Threading technology running at 2.9 GHz.

Your Quad Core 6600 is a *lot* more powerful than that P4 processor - trust me, I know, I had a 3.2 P4 in my last machine.

Not sure what PhysX actually does but I downloaded Warmonger and it certainly looked very good and extremely detailed.
I blasted my way through loads of partitions of wood and concrete and even tried to blast a hole in a wall and might have succeeded if I hadn't run out of ammo but then got a bit bored with it after about an hour as I had no clear idea of what my objective was and the game got repetitive.
I couldn't believe what I was reading since he had a 8800GTS 512, so i went back and downloaded Warmonger from nVidia's powerpack and it seems that they finally optimized the game for use with GeForce PhysX. I was playing smoothly at default settings (which were set to low). Then I ramped everything up to high plus a max res. of 1680*1050 and I was getting good frames ("stat fps" into console gives you the time between each frame. i was averaging 25-15ms which is anywhere from 40-66fps in offline training team deathmatch in the first map). I have an 8800GT OC'ed to 675/1675/950

I may grab that DL as a test, if I can figure out if I can get Windows Steady State working on Vista x64 (I think it is not compatible) because I don't think I'll be keeping the game, so stead State would be beneficial....

Either that or else use regmon to keep track of what gets added so I can remove it manually :P

Ya I played warmonger a few weeks back on my 260 and it was choppy. Crysis ran better.. lol so maybe your right and it's not optimized for Physx. but now it is.

Oh and JohnWilly, thats not good news. You just told us that after 2 hours of Playing a game Coretemp said your temps were 77 Degree's. is that on all 4 Cores of your Q6600. 77C is to high, and should never get above 70c. ever.

your at 70 Celsius right.? or did you say 77c in Rivatuner, so that means your Graphics card is at 77. if so then thats ok. the Videocard can reach that temp, but your CPU should not. You can turn the Fan on your 8800 GT up mpre, cuz my 8800 GTS never got above 65C ever. Are you using the Stock cooler than came with your Q6600?? and you do know that you could easily make that Q6600 run very stable at 3.0 GHz 24/7 and then that game would look even more beautiful. What mobo you got.?

Maybe I should try Warmonger again. lol

I am pretty sure he meant temps from his GPU - if his non OCed 6600 is hitting those temps he either has no / passive cooling on that CPU or it has pried itself loose....
 

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Gunther, John, Skunk,

Thanks for your input. Yes I was talking about the core temp on my GPU after 3 hours gaming. You think this is too hot?

My rig is as follows:
Q6600, Asus P5N-E SLI, Thermaltake "Golden Orb" CPU cooler, 4GB OCZ 667Mhz RAM,
BFG 8800GTS 512MB OC (675/1675/975), 2x500GB Samsung Spinpoint HDDs, Thermaltake Toughpower 650watt PSU, Thermaltake Tsunami case, Samsung 226BW monitor.

I've just been browsing for about an hour and a half and Rivatuner tells me the core temp on the GPU is 58c. The other night when I was gaming it was a cool evening and I had the heating on so the whole room was fairly warm. Do you think I need to worry about overheating the GPU? >seem to recall it running even hotter a couple of drivers back.

I'd like to OC my CPU but don't know how or whether my mobo can take it. Any ideas or a pointer at a tutorial would be appreciated.

Also. Is Warmonger the only current game to do this PhysX stuff? I have Crysis, Halflife 2, Bioshock and Stalker S.O.C and they also look great with the .83 driver. I think I must be missing the point with Warmonger.

Thanks and best wishes, John:D
 

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Here's a list of the current and coming PhysX games: PhysX Games List

These nVidia GPUs can take a bit of heat. I have the original 8800GT design (which is known to have the whiny fan and to get really hot), and used Rivatuner to adjust the fan with the core temperature. I have the fan set to 45% on idle, then step up to 60%, 75%, and 90% as the temperature climbs. Idle, my temp. is about 56* but while at load it will go up anywhere in the 70s depending on the game. I try to be careful that it does not get any hotter than that so I set the 90% fan to go off after it hits 80*. If i hear the fan is constant at 90%, I will back off and alt-tab out of whatever I am doing, but luckily I've never yet come to that point.
 

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    PNY 8800GT @ 675/1675/950
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    Asus Xonar DX
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    Samsung SyncMaster 220WM
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    1680x1050
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Warmonger, the point is how you can shoot things, and they change different with different things. like pistol it shows one response, the machine gun it moves differently. you can shoot a wall and watch it crumble, then do it again and it falls a different way. If the wind was blowing. maybe something would fall that way, thats the point of Physx sort of.

Also I think that temp is somewhat OK for your GPU. you could always put a quiet and better cooler on it, or simply turn the fan up a little using Rivatuner.

and as for OC'n the CPU, thats a do at ur own risk thing, I was scared at first, but it's very simple. not being sure how your Mobo looks in BIOS. I can't explain. plus all CPU's are different, so just taking someone elses settings is not the best idea. but usually for a mild overclock like 3.0 GHz you'd be fine to hit that pretty easily.

This is one of the most detailed Guides I've ever read, but you don't need all that extreme stuff in it, but has great info if you wanna read it.
Howto: Overclock C2q (quads) And C2d (duals) - A Guide V1.7 - OverclockersClub Forums

and a few scrolls down in my next link there is pictures of your exact Motherboards BIOS. and he is showing what he did to set his overclocks. you should follow this.
I'd leave most things on Auto. and I'd change the vcore, or CPU voltage to Auto or to 1.350 to start. and just go up to something like 3.0 GHz. That would be around 333x9 your CPU has a 9x Multiplier. you can go lower like to 8. but shouldn't. leave it at 9 for a simple OC to 3.0 GHz

Here's the pics and some good info also with pics of your Exact Motherboards BIOS.

Google Image Result for http://techgage.com/reviews/asus/p5ne_sli/asus_p5ne_bios_10_thumb.jpg

I'd start with setting your RAM to unlinked. and try soemthing small like 2.8 or 3.0 GHz. also turn off intels Speedstep, and C1E also. these settings make your CPU crank down when not needed. but I'd leave them off.

Download CPU-Z so you can check your settings, it's a great little tool.
also download and Run Prime95 to test the OC's stability after your done. if you can pass a few hours of that, your probably somewhat ok, some people say 24hrs tho. but thats extreme. something like 3.0 you should be ok.

If you have any questions just ask. Good luck!
 

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    eVGA/MSI GTX 260 SLI
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    ASUS 20x Optical, Bose Companion 3, ATH-AD500 Cans :), Patriot Xporter 16GB Flash Drive (Very Fast), & Sandisk Micro 8GB.

    Nikon D40 DSLR with 18-105mm VR & 55-200mm VR
just installed 177.83 & i gotta say ...they are crap!

if this is their offering for the 8 series im going back to 177.41 GT200 drivers

Mass effect looks terrible the colors are too sharp, the shadows & shading are very shoddy :mad:
& the cut scenes reveal serious facial imperfection which just wern't there yesterday

COD4 aint too bad but these drivers give a definite cartoon feel
IMO....:)
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    ME.....
    CPU
    Q9450 @ 3.6ghz
    Motherboard
    P5K PREMIUM
    Memory
    8GB 1066mhz buffalo firestix
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD 5970
    Monitor(s) Displays
    20'' syncmaster
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    160GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA IDE
    160GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA 2
    PSU
    XCILIO 850w
    Case
    unknown ATX
    Cooling
    Arctic cooler pro 775
    Keyboard
    logitech EX110
    Mouse
    logitech cordless optical
    Internet Speed
    2mb
REALLY...

that bad. sadness.. good thing I've been to lazy. and am still on .41 hehe
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Q9650 E0 4.0 GHz @1.304v
    Motherboard
    eVGA 750i FTW
    Memory
    2x2GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500C5D
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA/MSI GTX 260 SLI
    Sound Card
    X-Fi XtremeGamer
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung T240 & 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 & 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Cuda 500GB 32mb Cache SATA 7200.(11) + 500GB Seagate Cuda External eSATA, USB, FW400
    PSU
    PC P&C 750w Silencer PSU
    Case
    CoolerMaster HAF 932 (Water-Cooled)
    Cooling
    Plenty of Fans, and a few 230mm Fans
    Keyboard
    Logitech G11
    Mouse
    Logitech MX-518
    Other Info
    ASUS 20x Optical, Bose Companion 3, ATH-AD500 Cans :), Patriot Xporter 16GB Flash Drive (Very Fast), & Sandisk Micro 8GB.

    Nikon D40 DSLR with 18-105mm VR & 55-200mm VR
just installed 177.83 & i gotta say ...they are crap!

if this is their offering for the 8 series im going back to 177.41 GT200 drivers

Mass effect looks terrible the colors are too sharp, the shadows & shading are very shoddy :mad:
& the cut scenes reveal serious facial imperfection which just wern't there yesterday

COD4 aint too bad but these drivers give a definite cartoon feel
IMO....:)

Strange,

They seem to work fine with the 9600 series card for me. (so far...) :geek:
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
    Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy Y0F94AV
    CPU
    i7-7500U @ 2.70 GHz
    Memory
    16 GB DDR4-2133
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
    Sound Card
    Conexant ISST Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17.3" UHD IPS touch
    Screen Resolution
    3480 x 2160
    Hard Drives
    512 GB M.2 SSD
They seem to work fine for me too so far. I've noticed a bit of an increase in fps in some games.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    E6750 @ 3.2GHz
    Motherboard
    Asus P5K-e/Wifi-AP
    Memory
    4x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    PNY 8800GT @ 675/1675/950
    Sound Card
    Asus Xonar DX
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster 220WM
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    500GB WD SATA II
    500GB Seagate SATA II
    PSU
    700W OCZ GameXStream
    Case
    Cooler Master Centurion 5
    Cooling
    Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
    Mouse
    Logitech G5
    Internet Speed
    ~3Mb
Hello. I have to agree with the above. My 8800GTS 512MB has never looked better than this. I've been playing Crysis and Bioshock over the weekend, with the .83 drivers, and everything looks sharper and more detailed. Also the action seems smoother and more like a movie. FPS I suppose. Might it be worth reinstalling them in case that's not quite right.
Also thanks to Spd2Last for the list of PhysX games and big thanks to Gunther for the stuff on OCing. I've bookmarked the pages and am working myself up to try it maybe next weekend.
Best wishes to you all, John:D
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    custom build
    CPU
    Q6600 OCd to 3.06GHz
    Motherboard
    Asus P5Q Pro
    Memory
    Corsair 2x2GB TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF G
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX GTX 260 Black Edition
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell Utrasharp 2408WFP
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200
    Hard Drives
    2x Samsung Spinpoint 500GB
    1x Samsung F1 1TB
    PSU
    Thermaltake Toughpower 650 watt
    Case
    Coolermaster Cosmos S
    Cooling
    Tuniq Tower 120 + 3x120mm + 200m side fan
    Keyboard
    logitech Wave
    Mouse
    Roccat Kone
    Internet Speed
    supposedly 8mbps actually about 4 or 5
    Other Info
    love this mouse
there is no problem with 177.83....they run fine the clarity just is not as great
i changed them now....

im currently running 177.89

these are decent & FPS have increased....
drivers still showing that shader issue ....but maybe that's just me....lol
:D

177.JPG
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    ME.....
    CPU
    Q9450 @ 3.6ghz
    Motherboard
    P5K PREMIUM
    Memory
    8GB 1066mhz buffalo firestix
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD 5970
    Monitor(s) Displays
    20'' syncmaster
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    160GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA IDE
    160GB 7200RPM SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA 2
    PSU
    XCILIO 850w
    Case
    unknown ATX
    Cooling
    Arctic cooler pro 775
    Keyboard
    logitech EX110
    Mouse
    logitech cordless optical
    Internet Speed
    2mb
I seem to remember reading somewhere that after installing the latest drivers not to forget to enable dual core option somewhere in the NVDIA control center, I looked and did not find that option. Did I read wrong or am I looking in the wrong place?

I have:
Intel Core Duo 6660 2.40 GHz
RAM 4GB
NVDIA 8800GT 512 Mb
Vista x64
 

My Computer

OK, so I got the New GT260 installed, and honestly, I think I might be in love with the beast.

So much so that (here comes the part that is gonna make Gunther mad) I think I'll get the one via Step-up as well and then I'll SLI the to bad boys together.

One question - if you connect the SLI bridge on the two cars does it automatically enable the SLI, or is there a way to manually enable and disable SLI?

Reason I am asking is that I want to use my dual monitor setup for normal (perhaps by splitting the monitors into two cards) and then when I enable SLI I'll lose one monitor but that is the point of SLI....

Anyhoo, I installed the Beta .79 drivers and am going to run a Vantage bench against it with the .79 drivers, then with the .83 drivers, and then with the .89 drivers and see which gets the best performance.

*hopefully* I'll finally have enough for a 10K+ Vantage score...
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro X64 Insider Preview (Skip Ahead) latest build
    Manufacturer/Model
    The Beast Model V (homebrew)
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 965 EE @ 3.6 GHz
    Motherboard
    eVGA X58 Classified 3 (141-GT-E770-A1)
    Memory
    3 * Mushkin 998981 Redline Enhanced triple channel DDR3 4 GB CL7 DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3-12800)
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 (04G-P4-3979-KB)
    Sound Card
    Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 * Lenovo LT2323pwA Widescreeen
    Screen Resolution
    2 * 1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    SanDisk Ultra SDSSDHII-960G-G25 960 GB SATA III SSD (System)
    Crucial MX100 CT256MX100SSD1 256GB SATA III SSD (User Tree)
    2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA II Mech. HD
    Seagate ST1500DL001-9VT15L Barracuda 7200.12 1.5 TB S
    PSU
    Thermaltake Black Widow TX TR2 850W 80+ Bronze Semi-Mod ATX
    Case
    ThermalTake Level 10 GT (Black)
    Cooling
    Corsair H100 (CPU, dual 140 mm fans on radiator) + Air (2 *
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15 (gen 2)
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared)
    Internet Speed
    AT&T Lightspeed Gigabit duplex
  • Operating System
    Sabayon Linux (current, weekly updates, 5.1.x kernel)
    Manufacturer/Model
    Lenovo ThinkPad E545
    CPU
    AMD A6-5350M APU
    Motherboard
    Lenovo
    Memory
    8 GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Radeon HD (Embedded)
    Sound Card
    Conextant 20671 SmartAudio HD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Lenovo 15" Matte
    Screen Resolution
    1680 * 1050
    Hard Drives
    INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
    PSU
    Lenovo
    Case
    Lenovo
    Cooling
    Lenovo
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master (shared) | Synaptics TouchPad
    Keyboard
    Lenovo
    Internet Speed
    AT&T LightSpeed Gigabit Duplex
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