Download NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Drivers - 262.99 WHQL Release

Without a shadow of a doubt, the release of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580 graphics card represents the most important event of the week, the new processing unit marking a whole new evolutionary step in the GPU manufacturers' history, while in the same time bringing about a flood of related announcements, just about all of NVIDIA's partners releasing their own GTX 580 version, either in standard or overclocked form. Nevertheless, in order for users to be able to run these high-end Fermi GPUs on their gaming machines, they'll also need to install the appropriate drivers, this being the reason why NVIDIA has also made available for download the GEFORCE/ION Driver 262.99 WHQL release. So, of you're lucky enough to have afforded one of the new GTX 580 cards, you can find the new drivers right here, on Softpedia, whether your machine is running Windows XP (download here), Windows XP x64 (download here), Windows Vista/7 (download here) or Windows Vista/7 x64 (download here). The new driver is WHQL-certified, has been designed specifically for the new GeForce GTX 580 GPU and, beside providing support for the card, also installs HD Audio driver to version 1.1.9.0. and includes PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0514. Moreover, the software supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs, supports OpenCL 1.0 (Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs plus OpenGL 4.1 for GeForce 400 series and later GPUs. More importantly, the release supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software, which is extremely important, especially if you're planning to push the GPU past its factory settings. Unfortunately, the dynamically performance adjustment technology packed within the card might actually pose some problems when attempting to overclock the GTX 580 beyond a certain point, but we'll talk more on this topic after we get a chance to test the card for ourselves, hopefully in the near future.