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