Asus g51 windows 7 temps

I upgraded my asus g51 to windows 7 a few months ago and when I installed the gtx260m win7 drivers I was getting significantly higher temps about 75°c on idle which was up from about 49°c idle on vista.

So I tried the few other drivers I could find and nothing really brought those temps down. I ended up putting the old windows vista driver on my new win7 install and the temps are usually around 59°c idle but the problem with that is any game I play the temp shoots up to about 85°c instantly and depending on the game it will go up from there (102°c after about 4 mins on sc2), so I really have just been using this laptop for surfing the web and some illustrator.

But in the last few days my vista driver has crashed twice (recovers about 2 seconds later with the message) so i'm trying to see if anyone else with this model has gotten the windows 7 drivers to work and what you did or if anyone else has some advice on what to do, I would love if i could use this computer to play games again but I mostly i just care about keeping the graphics card from crashing on me in the middle of a project.

thank you for taking the time to read and for your responses.

 

Did you test the temperatures in Windows 7 for gaming? 75 C does seem high on idle, but what were you getting for your temps under full load?

 

Hmm, what program are you using to test the temp, I've had huge differences in reading from different ones.