The "interesting" part of the GF106 story begins around the release of the GeForce 280 series drivers. This was the era where NVIDIA stopped treating the GTS 450 like a budget card and started treating it like a viable gaming entry point.
The is a graphics processing unit (GPU) codename, not a retail product name. It is a mid-range Fermi 2.0 chip manufactured by Nvidia on a 40nm process. nvidia gf106 driver
A: Yes. On modern Linux distributions, nvidia-driver usually points to the latest version (550.xx or similar), which will fail to compile or load for your GF106. You must specifically use the nvidia-legacy-390xx branch. The "interesting" part of the GF106 story begins
