Gigabyte GA-660 TNT2

Drivers

The latest Gigabyte drivers are quite a bit improved over the version we look at just a week ago for our July 1999 TNT2 Roundup. Most importantly, Gigabyte has released a version based on the Detonator 2.08 core, right on the heals of the reference release from NVIDIA. The quick response time on Gigabyte's part certainly reaffirms their commitment to having excellent driver support at all times. In fact, Gigabyte is one of the few manufacturers currently offering Windows 2000 drivers for download despite the OS still being a few months away from release.

With this release, Gigabyte has also implemented a new look and, more importantly, included an overclocking utility right in the drivers. Speed settings from 125 to 170 MHz are available for the core and from 150 to 190 MHz for the memory, both in 1 MHz increments. Everything is easily accessible either from the Gigabyte tray icon, or through the standard Windows 9x display properties. Ignoring WHQL requirements, the ability is to disable vsync is readily available as well.

Unfortunately, Gigabyte provides absolutely no utilities for Windows NT 4, so you'll be stuck with straight up reference drivers under NT. That's not so bad, but you'll be without gamma correction, acceleration tweaks, etc. as NVIDIA's reference drivers provide absolutely no utilities under NT.

Gigabyte GA-660 - Driver Pictures