Information about nvidia in Gentoo can be found here.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml
It goes more in detail about which driver versions are suitable for which nvidia cards; quite handy, since they kicked out nvidia-legacy-drivers.
If you don't want to read the article, here's the short story about the driver version:
In order to properly install the correct version, it is recommended to mask the packages like so:
Add the following to /etc/portage/package.mask:
>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9700
Add the following to /etc/portage/package.mask:
>=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8700
This should ensure the correct version will be merged, and you won't be bothered each time to install a new version.
For more information about this, I strongly suggest you also read the page at the link above. It tells you more about installing and using the driver.