About nVIDIA cards, playing on battery

Hi guys,

Well, I currently have a P7908u, with Dox 185.85 driver, and came with something in mind after playing games on charge and on battery.

I do know about that powermizer thing from nvidia, but how it works became a little bit confusing to me.

I am, perhaps, one of the most cautious person on the world when we talk about overall system temperature, and I noticed extremely low temperatures when playing on battery, with no performance drops...

So, something came in mind: does Dox drivers stress the GPU more than the official drivers, so that's one of the secrets of it having a better performance in some cases? If I install another driver, will I get better temps?

That's what's bothering me, because I did not see any loss im performance at all, and the temperatures are really low (near 53 celsius on Dead Space).

Thanks guys

 

What power plan were you using?

With a game that is capable of playing a minimum of 30 FPS (battery or plugged in) you will not notice a difference but the maximum rates may vary wildly (lets say 40 FPS on battery and 80 FPS plugged in). The maximum FPS is what will heat up your system - but you won't notice it if the minimum is above a certain threshold (around 30 FPS).

So, it's not only the drivers that make a difference - the vBIOS would make a bigger difference as would the power plan used too.

 

I see, what I really wanted was a way to play games with the maximum performance, but without the need to stress the card, you know?

Thanks

 

What you are asking for is impossible.

No work gets done without someone/something getting stressed.

Cheers!