Some kind of low power mode for 9800m gts?

So I know that for desktop nvidia cards at least, if you're not doing anything graphically intensive your card will switch into a low power mode where all the clock speeds decrease and it uses less power/makes less heat.

Does anyone know if the 9800m gts has this feature? If it does how do i turn it on cause it seems like my card is on full blast performance all the time.

 

not really... you can set it to save some power through Powermizer (in Nvidia Control Panel).

 

powermizer?

i cant seem to find it.

 

Do you have the Nvidia Control panel install? You could also trying underclocking with RivaTuner (though that would defeat the purpose of a 9800m GTS)

 

it does it by it self, no need to do anything.
download gpuz and see how it clocks down when not running 3d intensive stuff.

 

ok mine is DEFINITELY not doing that then

even when idling the speeds stay at 600 and 799 mhz for core and memory respectively


does your guyses speeds lower when ur idling?

 

sure does
which driver, notebook are you using?

 

180.70 (i got it from laptopvideo2go) and sager 5793

 

You probably already did, but check to make sure you're looking at the sensors tab in GPU-Z to see the current clock speeds, not the main tab.

 

yeah its definitely the sensors tab.

 

did you get the 180.70 dox ?

do you have the latest nvidia ntune installed (6.03) ?
if so press the system info and check the component tab you should have version 180.70 all over. if its mixed remove sweep and reinstall.

 

well i got nvidia system tools (from guru3d) but it doesnt seem to have added any meaningful features except for hardware monitoring.


also, in my component stab, everything under 3D Settings, Display, and Video & Television are 7.15.11.8070. everything under NVIDIA Control Panel Container is 1.5.740.29

 

It may be worth trying a graphics driver uninstall and a new install by downloading the driver direct from Nvidia and giving the mobility modder a try.

I had no end of issues with the modded .inf from LV2G.

 

might want to roll back to the last driver that worked for you and work up slowly from there.

be sure to drive sweep (in safe mode preferably) after uninstall.

 

ok so apparently it DOES work, but it only goes into low speed mode (?) when i pull the AC plug.

now i need to figure out how to enable this normally.

 

do some reading on the powermizer registry keys
it is all there

 

mhm nothings works.

the only thing i can do is disable powermizer and keep my vidcard on full settings all the time. but its like that already...