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    looking for a cool driver for 8400m gs

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by 660hpv12, Sep 14, 2008.

  1. 660hpv12

    660hpv12 Notebook Deity

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    have 177.98 installed, runs quite hot, 85C while gaming with a zalman nc1000 cooler and fan on max. dont remember what driver I had last time, but it was 6C cooler most of the time. whats a good cool driver? will do some overclocking to play later games. thanks in advance
     
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    Lum-X Notebook Evangelist

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    177.98 are BETA drivers and that can be the cause of over heating your GPU
     
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    Harper2.0 Back from the dead?

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    You might also want to get a can of compressed air and clean out your vents.

    I'm using 177.92 (xtremeg) drivers. After playing about an hour of GRID, my GPU temp is 64*C.
     
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    I just did, and I clean my vents on a regular basis. temps went up by 6C only because of the new driver (after a system reinstall) and you cant compare temps between different laptops, mine is a 14in and is known to run hot. 95C on average without cooler on stock drivers
     
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    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    For me, ever since the 169.04/169.09 drivers I've never seen any noticeable benefit to newer drivers. Also, according to my temperature monitors most of these drivers run hotter, around 10C more than the 169.04. It's probably a misreading since my laptop doesn't really feel any cooler with these drivers, but performance-wise I haven't really seen any improvements with my 8400M GS from then to now. Give the 169.04 a try.
     
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    for being un utterly weak card you would assume it would be semi cool? guess this Nvidia problem si affecting the lower end cards a bit more.
     
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    lol my card is within the affected range, if I dont manually kick the fan up and run it with a cooler. 95-100c was quite common
     
    660hpv12, Sep 15, 2008
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    thanks, ill give that a try and report back with the temps
     
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    got 169.09 up and running, my max temps on stock 400/800/500 is 75C, on 500/1000/650 is 81C and I maxed the bar on riva tuner 600/1200/750, it max at 85C. thanks for the help its almost a 10C drop
     
    660hpv12, Sep 15, 2008
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