Video cards and drivers

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Drivers: Just use the Nvidia.com's site. They're all based from Nvidia's stock card anyhow. It is almost foolish to think the individual brand's tweaks would be that much better.

Probably true. However, some third party drivers get much better performance than the official ones. I've been using the Omega Drivers for my ATI cards for a few years. I adopted them when I was getting sub-par performance in Far Cry. After switching from Catalyst to Omega, my average framerate went from 30 to 50. The difference is probably not that drastic in other games, but they've treated me well. I also don't want to install .NET just so I can use the newer ugly bloated Catalyst control panel thing.