Should I update my 8600GT driver for my XPS M1530?

Hi you all,
I've just bought a DELL XPS M1530 and I'm so worried about the error of Geforce 8600GT Video Card that DELL and nVIDIA has reported!
So would you mind giving me a suggest of updating new driver for my video card? If in case I should update my graphic card, please share me the lastest driver for my Geforce 8600GT.
please view my system information below and give me suggestion

 

Thats a Nice Version itself mate anyway goto Laptopvideo2go.com

 

Why do you want to update drivers???

And do you know *what* the issue is actually? and do you know that *the issue cannot be fixed with driver updates*????

from your screenshots, those temperatures are perfectly fine and normal..

And I see that you don't seem to have any issue with this driver as of now (and only worried because of the nVidia faulty card news!!!)

all that I would suggest is the following:

- You (or we or anyone) don't know when the cards would fail.
- Use yours system as long as its fine, because Dell has an extended warranty limited to the GPU issue and they will replace it if the card fails.
- Driver's do not solve this issue
- Update your driver if you are seeing any issue with any games or such.
- The 174.31 is itself a pretty good driver and quiet popular too.
- THOUGH, you could update to the latest driver from Dell (v175.97, available in the M1530 drivers n downloads page) and its good as well.
- Or you could take drivers from laptopvideo2go with the modded .inf though I would suggest its better to stick with OEM drivers as long as you don't have any specific issue.

And for more information on the graphic card issue, see here

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/arch...ate-limited-warranty-enhancement-details.aspx

If your card is faulty, you will see issues / symptoms as listed there, for example... So don't worry as long as everything is fine.

 

Thank you, Thank you!
It really makes me less worried!
^^
Thanks for your opinions!

 

yea i got mine a few weeks ago and its still on whatever drivers it had a up to a few weeks ago when i got it and its ran fine for me even when playing games for a few hours. I spent like 6 hours straight playing spore one night and the fan occassionally came on but the laptop never really heated up and there were no video issues.

 

I just wondering if my 8600gt is ok when its temperature keeps fluctuating in idle mode, like rising from 56 to 61 for a few minutes, then climbing up to 69, remaining unchanged for 5 minutes or so, then slowly dropping down to 60, and so on.

Is it normal at all? All this happens when I am mailing, surfing the net, absolutely no gaming at all. Thanks a lot.

 

hi, anybody can help? tks!

 

Absolutely normal behaviour, the graphics card is working to display the image on screen.

 

i always keep my drivers up too date.

 

Try the new 178.24 drivers that just came out a few days ago off laptopvideo2go.com. I find these to be the best performing and lowest temp drivers to come along in a few months.

 

Thanks for your advice. I think I will give it a trial with this driver, simply in hope the temp wont keep dancing up and down any more.

Thanks for all the comments! Love this forum...