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    T61p Gaming - Custom Drivers and Heat Levels

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by dharmaboy, Aug 25, 2008.

  1. dharmaboy

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    Hi guys,
    I did search and found a great many guides to monitoring heat, using custom laptopvideo2go drivers and custom driver installations .

    I know that depending on the drivers used I would have varied heat levels while gaming and at regular idle.

    I use Riva Tuner to determine the lows and highs of the T61P and found the following.

    Stock Lenovo driver (174.16) Heat was at around 65-67deg on idle
    Lapvid2go driver (177.83) heat level sits between 61-62deg on idle.

    While gaming Both drivers ran Fear with Max settings at 82deg as a heat level.

    Now my question is What should be an acceptable heat limit for gaming for this T61p or any laptop in general? I do get a better 3Dmark06 score using the 177.83 driver was 4531. The stock Lenovo Driver game me a 3DMark06 score of 4356. Sure, its probably not going to make a difference for me to notice but for numbers sake I thought I would mention it in the thread.

    I used GPU-z and here is my setup.

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    Now I did notice the Bios comes up as Unknown. Is this a bad thing? Everything works fine. But it is a custom driver so I am guessing it comes up as such.

    Thanks to all those who reply.
     
    dharmaboy, Aug 25, 2008
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  2. Johnny T

    Johnny T Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Very nice. 82C is fine for the GPU.
     
    Johnny T, Aug 25, 2008
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    dharmaboy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any idea about the Bios being not showing?
     
    dharmaboy, Aug 25, 2008
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    I am not really sure why the BIOS isn't showing up, but I wouldn't be worried about it.

    Yeah like Johnny said 82C is perfectly fine for the GPU. I would only start to get worried if it was higher than 90C while gaming.
    Tim
     
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    Tim,
    do you think it's because of the unsigned nature of the custom driver and .inf files?
     
    dharmaboy, Aug 25, 2008
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    That is probably it. My FX570m has been registered as a 8600mGT with certain modified drivers.


    Not sure about the temps but I like the drivers that are in my sig. Got the new NVIDIA PhysX going too.
     
    SonDa5, Aug 25, 2008
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    those t61p are very nice... I'm lovin's mine ;)
     
    alber, Aug 25, 2008
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    Yeah that might be it. I am using custom drivers as well (169.04). I tried GPU-z and it didn't show my BIOS either.
    Tim
     
    Tim, Aug 25, 2008
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    I get 80 deg F with AC working in the room, and 85 with AC not working (and so about 80 deg F room temp) with mine, overclocked to 648/900 core/memory. The shader goes to 1200MHz :) . The laptop is lifted about 1/4 inch on stands due to the heat.

    and 80 deg is kinda high but the performance is priceless :)

    edit: mine idles at 48-50 deg F
     
    miro_gt, Aug 25, 2008
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    [​IMG]
     
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    now tell me where to get that skin for XP ... ?
     
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    ^ ah thanks guys, worked great .. and very easy to install :)
     
    miro_gt, Aug 25, 2008
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