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New nVidia drivers released, showcase another strength of Windows 7

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nvidiaGood news for people with nVidia graphics cards – today, the manufacturer released its 191.07 graphics drivers for all desktop graphics cards. As with the last few releases, these drivers fully support both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7.

These drivers support the usual goodies for users of cards in the GeForce 8 series or above – namely, PhysX, CUDA, WDDM 1.1, and DirectCompute, a series of technologies geared toward making your graphics card do more than play the latest games.

So what? It’s just another driver release, right? Well, that in itself is remarkable, and it shows just how far ahead Windows 7 is of Windows Vista.

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 is the first video card to bitstream TrueHD and DTS-HD

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ATI Radeon HD 5870

The good news is that you can finally get both compressed and uncompressed HD audio off a Blu-ray Disc and into your A/V receiver without the need of a dedicated sound card. The bad news is that at $380, the ATI Radeon HD 5870 still costs more than a stand-alone Blu-ray player and that price doesn’t even include playback software. That’s ok with us though, as we’re used to being charged early adopter tax, and now the first video card with this ability is released, it should only be a matter of time before this feature trickles down to video cards we can actually afford.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 is the first video card to bitstream TrueHD and DTS-HD originally appeared on Engadget HD on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:43:00 EST.

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