Satellite A500 overheating on 64bit

Hey,
I just upgraded to 64bit and my GPU temperature has been really high, around 60 degrees Celsius.
It goes up to 107 when I run a game and switches off.
When I had 32bit running I never had this problem, I could play any game without the laptop overheating.
I thought at first it was a problem with drivers, or that im missing somthing.
I have updated bios, every single other driver that I could find for my laptop and repeatable reinstalled video card drivers with no change.
Now I have been trying to work out how to change the fan settings, I have noticed the fan starts running fast enough to hear at 55ish degrees and I want to decrease that setting aswells increase the fan speed.
I have tried Speedfan, and like 5 other programs where none of them worked.
I'm also afraid if I just reinstall 32bit that I will have the same problem since there might be some kind of driver or utility I have lost in the format.
Is there a way I can fix this problem? Is there a Toshiba utility or something I might have missed?
Is the A500 not compatible with 64bit? Can the fan settings be changed?
Thanks in advance

Hi dude
What graphic card driver did you use?
As far as I know the usage of original 3rd party drivers (nVidia, ATI) could cause such issue because the drivers dont support a overheating protection.
The point is that such drivers are not modified. The Toshiba own GPU driver is a little bit modified and released for the notebook usage the GPU performance would be clocked down in order to lower the heat dissipation which helps to decrease the temperature
So the usage of Toshiba GPU drivers is really essential to ensure that GPU would not overheat
Furthermore please check if your cooling modules are free of dust dust could affect the air circulation and this might lead to higher temp

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