G51 w/260M won't downclock at ilde, driver advice?

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Hey Guys,

I'm working on my old G51VW that I sold my buddy a couple years ago, still runs great! Just needed some cleaning up and tweaking as he's not into computers and doesn't maintain windows, etc, and something corrupted the video driver and caused DVD's to play with weird color pallet. Cleaned up windows and updated, and have the latest Nvidia driver installed, 320.49, and everything is running properly, DVD's now play properly.... but, have one question, and I seem to remember this being a question in the past when I owned it, but it's been a while and several laptops

Does anyone know of a fairly recent driver that will properly downclock the GPU when at 2D or idle clocks, ie basic office stuff etc? These drivers keep it locked at full clocks, and obviously impact battery life and create unneeded heat. He doesn't game, so there's no need to keep them at full speed and gaming performance isn't a big concern.

Thanks! Did a search but not much info in the past couple years. Laptop is still running great, still a nice machine! Was nice to get some time playing with it again. Build quality wise it has definitely stood up very well.

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O I remember having this same issue when I had the G51. Such a picky system haha.

Try these..
Nvidia Geforce/Ion/Quadro 198.05 WHQL Drivers (MS Update) released

Otherwise google 186.82.. I remember those were the most stable drivers I could find and they also downclocked if I remember correctly.

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