GPU temp in Compaq Presario F572US quite high

Today, I downloaded CPUID and ran it to see what it would report for GPU temp. It's running between 80 and 84 degrees C. My notebook is sitting on a cooling pad I bought a few months ago; it has two small fans, powered by USB. I don't the cooling pad helps much, only a slight benefit. CPU temps (two cores) usually run in low 50's, fluctuating from high 40's to about 57, as notebook fan kicks on and off. The notebook fan does not run excessively, in my opinion; it usually only needs to run a few seconds before it stops and the frequency of it kicking on is not too high, I believe. Actually, with the high temp reading for GPU, I'm surprised the main fan does not run more often and for longer durations. Again, the cooling pad makes little difference in frequency and duration of main fan.

The GPU in this notebook PC is nVidia GeForce Go 6100. I bought this computer is July 2007. I've never checked GPU temp before. The video driver was updated at least once since I've owned it. I could roll back the video driver and see whether that would make any difference. Or, I could update to a later version; Windows Updates has been showing a video driver as an optional update for quite some time but I have not installed it. Or, should I visit nVidia's website and search for a driver update.

Typical use of the computer is web browsing, email, and MS Office (Word, Excel, Access), often with 2 or more of these apps open at the same time and numerous tabs open in the browser. But, no gaming. I have been using a second monitor with it but disabled it this morning to see whether that would make a significant difference. I'm not seeing a noticeable difference, so apparently I need not worry about using a external monitor for dual monitor configuration.

I'm posting this because some searching via Google shows references indicating my GPU, and actually CPU too, are rather high for my usage. I have occasionally checked CPU temps over a period of months with CoreTemp, which only monitors CPU temps, and that has always been about the same as now, so I suspect GPU has also always been about the same. Any thoughts on this?

 

Note: I visited NVIDIA's website and searched for a driver update; they have none. They list drivers for the GeForce Go 7 Series (Notebooks) but not for GeForce Go 6 Series.

 

www.laptopvideo2go.com for drivers. The temperatures are normal.