Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Card Driver?

I have the Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Card on my Dell XPS 8500 and see it has driver
version 320.78 installed. I see the latest version on the Nvidia website is
version 332.21. An wondering if I should update to the latest driver or remain
with the current one I have. I not experiencing any nagging problems at this
time.

Thanks for any insights.
charliec

On 1/9/2014 4:04 PM, wrote:
I have the Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Card on my Dell XPS 8500 and see it has driver
version 320.78 installed. I see the latest version on the Nvidia website is
version 332.21. An wondering if I should update to the latest driver or remain
with the current one I have. I not experiencing any nagging problems at this
time.

Thanks for any insights.
charliec

I wouldn't worry about it. Normally if a driver is working just fine,
changing it to any other version isn't going to make anything better.
And sometimes newer versions actually makes things worse.

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On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:59:42 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

On 1/9/2014 4:04 PM, wrote:
I have the Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Card on my Dell XPS 8500 and see it has driver
version 320.78 installed. I see the latest version on the Nvidia website is
version 332.21. An wondering if I should update to the latest driver or remain
with the current one I have. I not experiencing any nagging problems at this
time.

Thanks for any insights.
charliec

I wouldn't worry about it. Normally if a driver is working just fine,
changing it to any other version isn't going to make anything better.
And sometimes newer versions actually makes things worse.

Thanks Bill - got it - I was thinking the same thing, but wanted to see other
thoughts!

On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:02:25 -0800, wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:59:42 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

On 1/9/2014 4:04 PM, wrote:
I have the Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Card on my Dell XPS 8500 and see it has driver
version 320.78 installed. I see the latest version on the Nvidia website is
version 332.21. An wondering if I should update to the latest driver or remain
with the current one I have. I not experiencing any nagging problems at this
time.

Thanks for any insights.
charliec

I wouldn't worry about it. Normally if a driver is working just fine,
changing it to any other version isn't going to make anything better.
And sometimes newer versions actually makes things worse.

Thanks Bill - got it - I was thinking the same thing, but wanted to see other
thoughts!

I've not had much trouble trying out newer nvidia drivers...sometimes my
issues improved, other times I merely traded the old problem for a new
one. In any case, if I wasn't happy with the newer drivers I just
reverted to the dell certified drivers.

One pita with this process: when attempting to unstall my current
nvidia driver: on reboot, Windows would will detect my card, and
automatically reinstall the driver I wanted to remove. I stopped
Windows from doing this by locating, and deleting, the folder that
contained the, extracted, nvidia installation files. With that done, my
PC would load the basic VGA driver, and I could complete removing any
leftovers, and install whatever nvidia driver I wanted.

hope it helps


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On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 13:17:05 -0500, Bill wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:02:25 -0800, wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:59:42 -0600, BillW50 wrote:

On 1/9/2014 4:04 PM, wrote:
I have the Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Card on my Dell XPS 8500 and see it has driver
version 320.78 installed. I see the latest version on the Nvidia website is
version 332.21. An wondering if I should update to the latest driver or remain
with the current one I have. I not experiencing any nagging problems at this
time.

Thanks for any insights.
charliec

I wouldn't worry about it. Normally if a driver is working just fine,
changing it to any other version isn't going to make anything better.
And sometimes newer versions actually makes things worse.

Thanks Bill - got it - I was thinking the same thing, but wanted to see other
thoughts!

I've not had much trouble trying out newer nvidia drivers...sometimes my
issues improved, other times I merely traded the old problem for a new
one. In any case, if I wasn't happy with the newer drivers I just
reverted to the dell certified drivers.

One pita with this process: when attempting to unstall my current
nvidia driver: on reboot, Windows would will detect my card, and
automatically reinstall the driver I wanted to remove. I stopped
Windows from doing this by locating, and deleting, the folder that
contained the, extracted, nvidia installation files. With that done, my
PC would load the basic VGA driver, and I could complete removing any
leftovers, and install whatever nvidia driver I wanted.

hope it helps



Thanks for the insights!