80 C Throttle?

System Specs:

M17x r3 | 120hz Display | 16GB RAM | NVidia 580M | i7 2820QM | HDD Bay Zero: Seagate 750GB | HDD Bay One: Corsair ForceGT 128GB | WiHD Wireless HD | Intel WiMAX 6250 | WEI Rating: 7.5 | No OC's of any kind. | Running latest GPU drivers


I have gone through the process of flashing the A04 modified BIOS (which bricks your machine), then flashing the modified A08 BIOS. My intent was for this to remove my throttling problem (FurMark taught me my issue I was having with WoW was when the GPU hit 78-80 Degrees C) However, my GPU still will go up to the 78-80 C then the fan will start cycling just as it did before, and thus the system starts to become skippy, laggy, and ultimately unresponsive for a period of time around 1-60 seconds, usually around 20. This was true for both FurMark and WoW.


Help! What should I try doing next to remove this throttling at 78-80 C? Additionally, since I seem to not be the only one by far having this issue... do we think it will be addressed whenever the A09 BIOS is released? Also, is there any ETA when that may be?



I greatly appreciate all input and advice, thanks!

 

the 78-80° throttle originates directly from your nvidia gpu-bios and atm theres nothing one can do about it...

but i am curious: how did you manage to reach this temperature while playing wow?
i played crysis and deus ex 3 in max details+fullhd and there has been never any gpu-throttle...

 

x2 on the temperatures in WoW, it shouldn't really get that hot.

I think actually is the game that heat the less my cards... while playing it can get as hot as 65 - 68 degrees.

A repaste can get you below the throttling threshold

 

You dont need to brick your comp to remove Dell Bios Limit. Thats an unnecessary and risk step. Gandalf provided a very simple straight forward step. you should follow that in the future.

I just flashed mine a few hours ago. I was bloody nervous..Thank God everything went smoothy..

 

I just ran around aimlessly for 10 minutes. Happens 100% consistently.

EDIT:

I think it should also be noted that it happened with or without the 3D enabled... didn't seem to make that much of a difference.

So wait, just making sure I understand this correctly - your temperatures whilst playing WoW are 65 - 68 C?

Thanks for the tip, what did you reflash your BIOS for?



@Everyone:

Thank you for your replies... so what I'm going to try to do is call Dell (I have the prem warrenty) and see what they can do. I really DO NOT want them to give me a refurb'd machine.

Do you think this is an appropriate course of action? (I have a lot of experience talking to Dell customer support and getting what I ask for. )

 

There was 1 option in the video options in wow that consumes alot of gpu power but doesn't do anything much...

I'm sorry but I forgot which feature it was, but im sure someone knows what im talking about. May help with ur temp going past 70C on wow.

 

Yeah, I tried every single graphics settings within WoW imaginable. Thanks for the input anyway.


I'm on the phone w/ Dell now, I'll edit this to keep up with my status.

EDIT:

They're sending out a tech agent to replace all fans on the computer (even though I didn't need that), and the GPU.