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Lots of Nvidia Laptop Graphics Cards Are Overheating, Dying [Nvidia]

gizmodo.com » 2008 » July » 3rd » Lots of Nvidia Laptop Graphics Cards Are Overheating, Dying [Nvidia]

Tagged: dell, notebooks, hp, nvidia, geforce 8m

Apparently some previous-gen Nvidia graphics cards that shipped in "significant quantities" of notebooks are defective, built and packaged with "weak" materials that are leading to them to overheat and fail at a "higher-than-normal" rate. (It seems to be the 8M series, though it's not named specifically.) Enough are bad that Nvidia is taking a $150-$200 million hit on its earnings for the … Continue Reading »

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