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    Possibly redundant: Drivers for 8800m GTX

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by sss.owens, May 24, 2012.

  1. sss.owens

    sss.owens Newbie

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    I've been searching for a very long time on the best, most up to date, drivers that are available for the 8800m GTX video card.

    My current driver version is: 8.16.11.8681 (i guess this would be called 186.81?)

    The most prominent reason for why I want to upgrade my drivers is because I would like to downclock my GPU. I'm getting ridiculously high temps while gaming (yes I've cleaned the vents, and I have applied thermal paste).

    Then again it would be nice to have the best drivers just in general.

    Much appreciated

    My specs:

    Windows 7 64 bit
    Intel Core2 Duo 2.5
    4gb ram
    8800m gtx

    (Side note: I would have utilized the "search" function but it appears to be down for some reason)
     
    sss.owens, May 24, 2012
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  2. daminibeast

    daminibeast Notebook Geek

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    You have the most up to date drivers. All of the newer drivers dont work/or give BSOD. To down clock your GPU grab EVGA's precision. Its a great easy over/downclocking tool.
     
    daminibeast, May 25, 2012
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  3. grimshaid

    grimshaid Newbie

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    I recently went through this exercise myself, and found that while the 186.81 drivers seem to run the card wide open, the 186.82 allow it to clock down during operation as needed, so I'd say the .82 are perhaps a better driver for the card's life. It's also a good idea to run the hwinfo utility (32 or 64 bit depending upon your version of windows.) This will give you a lot of information about temperatures and fan speeds, and allow you to cycle up the fans higher at lower temps to prevent damage to the card and help keep the heat down overall.

    We seem to have the same machine, or at least the hardware within.
     
    grimshaid, May 29, 2012
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