Video Card DRIVER OVERHEATING!?

You may need to get a better cooling fan, or add another one.

The things that overheat are usually the processor chips - advanced video cards have their own chip - or sometimes more than one.

Try to leave empty slots both sides of your video card to allow for more air circulation.

Keep the inside of your computer dust-free.

If this is not enough you may need to get one of those electronic refrigerating devices and attach it to whatever is hottest on the card.

From the list of specs you have given this sounds like your have a laptop, if this is the case there isn't a whole lot you can do yourself, how old is it? if it's still under a warrenty with dell I'd deffinately have them look at it, one thing you want to make sure is that the bottem and sides of the laptop have clearnace for air to flow from it to cool of properly, as an example lets say you use it on a desk, but have a fabric pad you set it on, that would block the air leaving the laptop thus cause it to overheat, you could buy one of those cooling pads that are sold in most computer stores, there are ones with and without fans, the ones with fans useally cool a bit better. If none of the vents are being blocked then an internal fan could have stopped working inside the laptop, which again if it's under warrenty dell will take care of it, if it's not I'd take it someplace and have them look at it.. the driver is just the software that runs your videocard, it doesn't overheat it's the card itself that would be doing that. If it is a desktop that you own, then thats alot easyer for someone to work on, but if you don't feel your up to it again, take it somewhere, or if you know someone that knows about fixing computers have them look at it.

Since this is a notebook the air flow vents are at the underside of the notebook. so keep the notebook such that these vents are not obstructed. i.e put a book under the laptop when playing on it. this ensures that hot air has an exit and is is not couped up insided increasing the temperature of the components inside.

try getting the latest ntune software to monitor temperature of the card to make sure it is the problem.

also keep updating the forceware drivers regularly (and don't go for he beta ones a they usually are prone to crashes.)

first, the driver is just written codes of commands written for normal use. you can't clean it. and it doesn't really control that much of your hardware's temperature problems since it built to run on a "tested" performance. unless you use a third party program to overclock, graphic softwares will not be an issue. your graphic chip, since you have a laptop can also be very tricky to clean or to cool down. so i am advising against it.

second, how can you say that your BSODs are caused by overheating? if this only happens to games, it might be possible that your graphic chip isn't appropriate or underpowered to run the game.

third, for overheating issues, laptops aren't made for games. they can't be used continually over long periods of time especially if the program demands huge resources such as games. these will of course lead to overheating because the components inside the laptop are cramped and they have just small spaces to dissipate the heat.

hmmm, well if the inside of your computer is fairly spacious you should be ok. its an old card and will heat up from any gaming, but with non gpu intense games like that it wont OVERheat. But just to be safe play a game for a few hours then feel the back of your comp to see if the gpu is hot. if it is, then try Underclocking. thats like overclocking but your slow down your gpu;s clock speed.

I think it's best to do it professionally, however if you know any computer experts - ask them to solve your problem.

Thanks

*EDIT*

Agreed, if it's a Notebook, you should contact your Manufacturer.