Gpu fan issue (G1Sn)

Hello,

I just recently reinstalled windows 7 x64 and 177.79 drivers with it. Im not sure if this problem was present with the 180.70.
Anyway, I've noticed in GPU intensive applications, that the fan does not react accordingly. It only speeds up when there's stress to the cpu. I can run whole game test in 3dmark overclocked and certainly the gpu could use some more cooling, but the fan can stay at below half speed! It only speeds up noticeably in the cpu test parts, and even then not fully maximum all the time.

Is there any programs around there that can control the fan according to the gpu temp/load ? Im hitting ~90c on my GPU and I really want the fan to be seriously cooling while gaming. The laptop is G1Sn with 9500 GS.

 

I have the G1sn as well and have never noticed the fan not running at 100%, at least according to my ear and what rivatuner reports. As far as 90c it actually seems about average compared to my lappy and others I have talked to with it. If you are getting 90c at 50% fan speed it actually appears you may be better off. The only other options are to force a fan speed in rivatuner as well as using a cooler. I have been running this lappy for 11 months in the 80-90 degree range with no issues as of yet. No overclocking either. I should add I'm not sure if windows 7 adds any complexity to this issue.

 

How would I force the speed in rivatuner ? Also, noticed that the rivatuner monitoring application reports my gpu clocks way higher than what I've set em to, but gpu-z says they're correct.. heh, too many monitoring tools, don't know what to believe.
Anyway, just hit 92C in 3dmark05 with 600/1200/465 and scoring 8469. Im not sure if my temps are high with these clocks considering the fan doesn't let out all it could, but still, it doesn't feel right when gaming and the fan not reacting to gpu.. after undervolting the cpu, its the only thing that gets really hot. Idling at 68C atm, cpu 49.

 

Yeah, your temps are running right in line with mine and I have no overclocking at all. Rivatuner reports my core at 513 which has always reported high. Again , I can't speak for windows 7 but maybe the readings are wrong with it thus far? As far as forcing the fan speed it should be the first option on the "low level" settings tab (first tab after clicking the button to the lower right of your card description). You can also set defaults that you want the fan to follow under certain conditions with specific temperature tripping points.

 

Just changed the drivers from 177.79 to 179.48 (which natively support the 9500M GS). I could be mistaken, but seems the fan is more active with these. The temperatures correlate somewhat, max is still 92C but it took the card longer to get to that temp. And in any case, it improved my score by about 200.
Well, playing around with rivatuner but with these drivers it doesn't seem to be so bad anymore.

btw, rivatuner shows "reference fan duty cycle %" as 100 all the time, don't know what that means, probably nothing. Was same with earlier driver.

edit: im having trouble finding the fan control settings, do you mean "low-level system tweaks" ? Don't see anything else "low-level" around. If you're talking about the "fan" tab, I dont have it :/

 

Bah, this is really getting frustrating. I thought about power plans having any effect on the fan, and I didn't have power4gear extreme installed. I installed it and turned to high performance (it was on balanced, normal windows profile).
The fan seems to completely disregard what's going on on the screen now

It ONLY really accelerates on the final tests of 3dmark with the stress on the CPU. I'd say it is 50-70% on the first parts, then speeds up so that I can really hear the difference when the cpu tests start. Bah..

 

The more you explain the problem the more I think I have the same problem. I just got the card to stop downclocking and crashing to the desktop so I'm afraid to change anything. I think the only other way to change the fan settings would be through the registry settings editor in rivatuner to assign a minimum fan speed. The thing is if you mention those temps (or the fan issue) to anyone from asus or nvidia they say it's fine. Sorry about the low level settings, I was thinking of the issue I had with a desktop 8800gt. On that setup I was able to change the fan from rivatuner.