169.25 Drivers and M1530 GPU temp fluctuation!!!

I am trying to determine wether 169.25 drivers (which have known laptop heating issues) could have damaged my video card to make it fluctuate from 60-72 degrees when idling.

Has anyone used these drivers? And have their temps done a similar pattern of 60-72 degrees (before fan kicks to stop it going higher than 72)

Is it possible they toasted my card and made it initiate this pattern? I am now using dell official drivers, 15X.XX, but i still have the problem.

If this is normal, or not a driver issue, I won't be unjust if dell wants to replace my card, unless it is covered by accidental damage...

 

Your GPU can handle very high temperatures, so imho, your card is ok. I suggest going to laptopvideo2go.com and grabbing some stable drivers (read the posts), then test it. Your GPU temp may fluctuate if you are using any program that would use it. Your temps do seem a bit high, but change drivers and see.

 

I have used lots of different drivers, The Dell Official Driver, the windows update driver, the LV2G Latest 8600M driver from sony, and 169.25.

All have had this temperature problem (even having NO driver installed), but i have only checked them after i used 169.25. I also used driver cleaner when i reverted back to dell ones.

Is this even a driver issue? is it damage! please help!!!

 

Your temps are fairly normal and I wouldn't worry about it. My temps vary while idling, and I'm using the stock Dell drivers.

 

Some people overl**** and they idle easily below 70 and their fans kick in at68, why do my fans always kick in 5 degrees higher?

also my cpu gets up to 73 under stress (encoding HDV), could this be because my GPU is fairly hot and adding to it's heat?

 

You are fine, don't go paranoid on us mate.
If you are worried about your temperature get a cooler, and use i8kFan to manually manage the fan states and temperature that it kicks in. Keep in mind that 70 c is fine for the card...

 

oooh, ok, it's just dell seem to think it's worthty of investigating...

my temperatures WERE going to 83 when i was using an LV2G driver, but i wnet back to dell and its not only peaking at 78-79

Maybe they were more interested in that, i have only been recounting the fluctuation to them since though, when they email me, so maybe they are too preceedural to know what is exactly normal or not, and just try too hard to make everyone happy.