Recent content by demonred

It wasn't a diss, I just feel bad about making you do so much work on my part. You already helped me out a lot when I posted my initial topic about my computer overheating.

Hey, although I really appreciate it, you did not have to post this for me. I am capable of doing my own research.

I'm researching the cooling pads, I want to make sure I get one that doesn't suck.

Thanks a ton for helping me out. :D You're awesome. This is what the temps looked like after around 40 minutes of Far Cry 3: Highest it reached was 145°C on the faulty GPU-Z monitor and 95°C on Speedfan. Shortly after reaching this peak, I turned on my fan and surprisingly it dropped the...

The interactive tool didn't really work, but I managed to download some sort of mobile driver. Not sure if it is the correct one, but it seems to have installed without any obvious errors, and I'm in the process of testing it. So far the biggest difference I can see is that all of the programs...

The issue is that the notebook drivers are rarely updated, and when they are, it's no guarantee that they will be compatible with each version of the card. I just checked and the driver is dated 7/25/2012. :( I know that I played around with this quite a while back when I was trying to get...

The driver version appears to be 8.97.10.6 according to the device manager. I can attempt to get the newest version through Windows update, that may fix something?

Nope, is there a place I can download the latest version? I've always had issues with AMD's software/firmware, because they tailor it all to the desktop chips. At this point my GPU's firmware is probably nearly two years old and I haven't seen any updates.

No dice. :( It's not showing the GPU temps, and when I go into the settings, the box for the GPU is grayed out.

Just installed that, and it isn't detecting my GPU. :( I had the same issue with PC Wizard, SpeedFan, and MSI Afterburner; none of them would show my GPU temps. The only one that would work was GPU-Z, which is why I'm a little bit suspicious of the results.

I don't carry it around at all, sadly the battery went fubar on me (somehow expanded outward by two inches and took out my hard drive with it) so I'm pretty much using it as a desktop replacement at this point. It is possible that I might have knocked something loose while I was putting it...

CPU temps are pretty ok. Idles at around 62 Celsius and when gaming it rarely goes over 70. This might seem a little high, but again, this is a laptop so everything runs a little hotter. I haven't tried a cooler, but I have a ~7 inch fan pointed at the bottom of my computer. It seemed to have...

It's a Sager 8760 which is basically a rebranded Clevo W870CU. As for the fan setup, it looks like the following (not my picture, but it's identical to what mine looks like): There is another heatsink/fan for the CPU, which looks almost identical. Edit: My mistake, the above picture is of...

About a year ago I was having a problem where after playing any graphics-intensive games for any moderate amount of time (about an hour or so), my computer would completely shut off with no warning. I figured it was the fan or the thermal paste going bad, so I ordered some Artic Silver 5...