So I recently installed Vista on my Dell XPS 700 that has a 7900GS. When I had XP on here, if the computer was idle the fan on the graphics card would spin down to a point where I couldn't hear it at all (this is, overall, the quietest computer I've ever had). Ever since I installed Vista, however, the fan on the GPU is always on-even if I'm just sitting at the desktop with nothing running. Now, I understand that Aero uses my GPU for rendering, but it seems to me that unless it's actually doing something (i.e. window animations, flip3d, etc.) the GPU would still be idle. Is this not the case? Am I always going to be treated to the GPU fan when I'm looking at a web page? I want to update the drivers, but since nVidia still doesn't really have anything new, I'm holding off.
