HP Pavilion and the broken nVidia chips affair
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:03pm |
It’s been almost an year since there has been some turmoil over the failed HP Pavilion laptops due to the defective nVidia chipsets. These notably used to have a defective packaging that at temperatures over ~70°C turned unstable preventing the GPU from dissipating heat effectively and eventually letting it to burn. [nVidia source]
Today I’ve come across an interesting website built up by unsatisfied customers concerning this issue: http://hplies.com
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thanks for sharing, till now we haven’t such problems but it good to know
Regards Dimi
[...] Working for both desktop and mobile chipsets, this is indeed of more interest for the latter. One additional benefit stands for laptops with somehow defective GPUs (series GeForce 8400 and 8600 mobile) which are particularly sensitive to temperature shifts. More on this here. [...]