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Why is the NVIDIA GPU so hot?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 5764 / 1 Year ago, fri, may 19, 2023, 1:24:17

I have just installed 11.10 and installed the recommended driver for NVIDIA (230M). The current driver installed is 280.13.

The temperature of the card is 85°C. I have tried using LXDE and Unity 2D, but the temperature does not drop. Once it did drop to 76°C, but even that's quite a lot.

Is there a fix to this? Do you think downgrading my driver would help? If so, how should I go about it?

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answered 12 Months ago ntlesslving · Accepted Answer

The options initially available for additional drivers were as follows:

Nvidia accelerated graphics driver(version current) [Recommended]

Nvidia accelerated graphics driver(post-release updates)(version current-updates)

Initially I had installed 1. using which caused high temperature.Now, I have installed 2. I am not entirely sure if it was only because of the driver but doing this did solve it.

I hope someone explains as to what is the difference between the two clearly. This fixes the problem.