Graphic Cards Confusion about which Graphics Card driver to use

allrounder799

allrounder799

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I recently got the MSI R6850 Cyclone 1GB/OC card from SMC

I was confused which drivers to use: The one given on AMD's official site or the specific one from MSI's webiste

The latest version of Catalyst is 11.xx on AMD and 8.xx on MSI's site

Please help me which one to use? :)
 
^^the 11.xx is the catalyst bundle release version. the starting number denotes the year and the number after the decimal denotes the month of release. Therefore 11.10 preview actually means beta drivers released during the 2011 calendar year & in the month of October. The 8.xx is the actual display driver version. It is 8.89 for the 11.10 preview driver package.

Its better to download drivers directly from AMD site and use that, as the drivers listed on the OEM site are usually relatively old.
 
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