New driver causing overheating in 880m?

Playing bf4 with autofans on and no aa and vsync on would make my 880m stay in the high 70s to mid 80s for temps and would use about 70-90 percent of full gpu on average. now after installing the newest driver, gpu usage in the same game and playing style is between 85-98 with a few drops in the 70s. the new temps keep skyrocketting into the low 90s and fans go on max. Has anyone else with the 880m or other gpus seen dramatic temp increases after the new driver?

 

I have. And I have 980Ms. To say I'm not amused would be an understatement. I throttle now and I've repasted twice with no temp improvement. The only choice I have is to use adaptive vsync half refresh to force it to 60FPS or it will throttle the core.

 

Ofc temps go up if GPU usage goes up. Your performance must be noticeably better too. Idk how Nvidia does it but each time a new Battlefield game comes out and they release an optimized driver for it, performance in other BF titles goes through the roof. I remember the first BF4 Game Ready driver increased my performance in BF3 by 20%. With the Hardline driver I expect a similar gain in BF3/BF4 but can't test ATM as I have neither installed.

 

temps went up about 4C for my overclocked 970m with this new driver. Im maxing around 82C now instead of 78C.

 

Yeah I was maxing around 84 on my master, now it hits 88 and throttles both cards. Only takes a few minutes of Heaven before I'm in the 900s for core on stock voltage and clocks. Games take about 20 minutes but they still get there.

 

Is Maxwell gtx980m the new gtx880m.? Maxwell should run much colder than Kepler..

 

this is scaring me from getting a 980m laptop....

 

88C with 980M? That sounds very high for 980M. Time to repaste or clean the notebook

A bit funny with higher temps with new drivers. Maybe its a "feature"?

 

The GPU utilization for many games has gone up. Grid autosport had me at 70-80 percent usage and now its at 100% with this driver. Performance of course is also better.

 

Now... I don't play BF4 on Ultra. I set some things to ultra and sit at 125fps... but I'm going to go install this driver and I'm going to go check my new temps. In fact, I'm gonna take a small video before (in test range) after running it for 5 minutes, install the driver, enable SLI, then try again. If I see a huge increase in temps, I'm gonna say nVidia did something very very odd. I yell about the temps of my master card because it isn't what it should be, but I usually game in the 60s for temps.

 

Make sure you also take note of any increase in GPU usage (if you weren't at full utilization before)

 

Thank goodness other people have noticed this. I thought I was going crazy and everyone was going to laugh at me.

 

Okay. I went and took videos and if my internet was not the largest MESS I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE (my net company just ADMITTED TO ME they can't fix the packetloss in my whole area) you'd have had these hours ago.
Here:
347.52 drivers:
347.88 drivers:

1080p, 60fps, etc etc, all that jazz, enjoy the honestly bloody ridiculously low temps.

I know normal games are a little warmer, but not even 10 degrees hotter, so it seems 780Ms are clear out of the fire.

 

it may sound insane but I have noticed that if you increase the GPU clock to +30 Mhz on the 880M using MSI Afterburner then you would get lower temperatures.

I max at 80C in really demanding games.

 

The sweet spot for my 880m appears to be at 975 mhz with SVL7's modded vbios. Nvidia Inspector will not save my lowered voltage settings. You really can't pull too much. Mine gets unstable quickly, also not much heat saved either.

 

I've got much higher temps with my GPU OC... Seen temps hit almost 80C with this.. Performance for OC is better though with 347.88... On the whole, I'm happy tbh as games seem to be running smoother and everyone's getting huge FPS increases in BF4... I've got VSync on since I already max out everything with 60fps but this driver seems to keep performance consistent... World of Warships closed beta is also running more smoothly! I don't really care about the temps going up even with this in games, I'm maxing out at 65C tops on max boost clocks...