Nvidia recently rolled out and then retracted their 196.75 drivers. Why, if it supposedly gives a 30% performance increase for most old-ish video cards (like my 8800GT)? It doesn’t play nice with the fan controller. More like, it doesn’t turn up the fan at all, leading to serious overheating issues for some (the most common card I’ve seen is the 9800GT being mentioned). I have heard, on various forums, how people have fried their cards and/or mobos. To be honest, I am using the 8800GT along with the new drivers, and I do see a noticeable performance jump, but I’m only feeling safe about it because I manually turn up my fan every time I play TF2 anyways. This is on top of underclocking my card, but to be fair, my card was factory overclocked so it’s just running at stock speeds. For those of you wary though, feel free to rollback to something older, which can be done without finding the old version of the drivers actually! But just an fyi, the 196.21 I think is the latest.
And now the obvious comparison: did Nvidia really not notice this at all? If they cited a 30% increase, surely they playtested the drivers in various systems and applications…
Also an aside: Sigma and company have released their latest Focus Fire episode featuring detox and VG on gpit from the ESEA-O playoffs, and we may start hosting these on our blog! So expect to see some future blog posts and summaries of these episodes popping up on our site! 
Lastly, a trickjumping video for your Sunday morning -- yes, these are all pretty useless in comp play, but the editing is nice and the jumps are flashy, which makes for quite an entertaining vid. Please don’t try these in a scrim 
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