Clean install: which nVidia drivers

Hi,
I should revceive my K8N Neo2 tomorrow and I was wondering: should I install the nVidia drivers available on MSI's homepage (v5.03) or the ones available on nVidia's homepage (v. 5.10) ?
Franck

The motherboard comes with a driver cd and a floppy .
The floppy i got was labled NVSA020 and is the IDE/RAID drivers (2.5) on diskette
which you need when installing windows to a sata / raid .
If you are not needing the win install with press F6 to load raid drivers just forget about the floppy diskette .
Otherwise just prepare a new empty one and copy the following files to it (2.6) :
Files found from the extracted 5.10 file under nForce_5.10_WinXP2K_WHQL_international\IDE\WinXP
[raidtool]
disk1
idecoi.dll
nvata.cat
nvatabus.inf
NvAtaBus.sys
nvcoi.dll
nvide.nvu
nvraid.cat
nvraid.inf
nvraid.sys
nvraidco.dll
NvRaidEnu.dll
NvRaidMan.exe
nvraidservice.exe
NvRaidSvEnu.dll
NvRaidWizard.dll
NvRaidWizardEnu.dll
RegRaid.bat
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That's part if the output of lspci. What driver should I use?

broch wrote:
ngoonee wrote:
Where possible you should minimize the files on your system which aren't under your package management software (pacman in this case). This is particularly the case with a relatively common package like nvidia for which packages are already available. Makes debugging easier, and allows for a cleaner system if/when you need to change driver.
@jwwolf, since this is the Newbie Corner, it'd be helpful to take the time to at least add a few words on the difference between nouveau and the nvidia drivers...
you should not make things up. in the case of nvidia pacman is nothing more than wrapper. In this specific case it actually limits nvidia original installer.
there is not such thing as "cleaner" system: this is linux so user is allowed to use distro specific packaging system or sources.
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Very very easy to uninstall it. If you want to try the open source driver, or, if you install an ATI video card, then it is very easy to change drivers.
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I make this post as I found a way to solve my issue and this could be interesting to other people:
1. Download the latest nvidia drivers (285.38) on nvidia website: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?
2. Launch the .exe it will unpack the package in one folder: most likely NVIDIA/DisplayDriver/285.38/WinVista_Win7/International
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