Observations on 1330 GPU temps and bios

I have been using the A12 bios with my 1330 laptop and my GPU temp has been a steady 60 degrees (give or take a degree) while emailing and surfing the internet. It goes up to 70 degrees with any much harder use than that. I have noticed the fan going on fairly steadily although it is not on all the time. For an experiment I flashed my bios back to A09. Suddenly the temperature shot up to 68 degrees and stayed there. The fan came on and the temp went down to about 62 degrees and then the fan went off and the temp when back up to 68 degrees. It then repeated the pattern.

What I am finding interesting is not that the temp is higher on the 09 bios and that the fan is on less; that is expected. The fact that the temp is not steady on the 09 bios while it is on the 12 bios intrigues me. I am not sure what it means, if anything, for the health of my machine but why would one bios keep the temp steady while the other one will fluctuate?

 

trigger temps

if u looked at i8kgui, theres an option to auto regulate temps

over X temp, fan goes on until temp reaches Y, X > Y

probably the new bios is set to X = Y

 

I guess the question is which is better for my machine and the possibly faulty graphics card. Is it better to have the fan on less but the temp going up and then down or having the fan on more but the temp remaining stable and lower? What might this mean for the nvidia card problem because it is supposed to be an issue when the card contracts and then expands with heat fluctuations (or something like that)?

 

A more stable temperature I would think would be best. But if it stables high then that isn't too good either.

 

I kept A09 because I figure if my GPU is going to fail, I'd rather it do it sooner rather than later, when it's out of warranty. I mean: if the thing's doomed, it's doomed no matter what you do.