Nvidia Pulls 196.75 Drivers Due to Reports of Overheating
By Craig Lloyd on Mar 5th, 2010 at 3:15PM
Nvidia has recommended that all users that have the 196.75 drivers installed revert back to the previous 196.21 version due to reports of overheating video cards during intense gameplay. StarCraft II beta testers were the first to spot this problem when they detected temps as high as 104C. After finding out about this heated issue (pun intended), Nvidia has released an official statement:
We are aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues with the latest 196.75 WHQL drivers on NVIDIA.com. Until we can verify and root cause this issue, we recommend that customers stay with, or return to 196.21 WHQL drivers. Release 196.75 drivers have been temporarily removed from our Web site in the meantime.
So folks, it might be best for you to revert back to 196.21 if you do any GPU-intense gaming.
via [IncGamers]
That would explain why my GPU would jump to 90 when in game. I finally went got a new heat sink and fan for it and applied new compound. now it wont go above 65.
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