Does the G1SN with NVidia 9500 suffer from the Nvidia manufacturing defect?

Hi all,

I have a G1SN with the Nvidia 9500m GS GPU, and I was wondering if these suffered from the same problems as the 84xx and 86xx cards where the solder would fail and the card would essentially detach from the mobo. Since the 9500 is a rebadged 8600, would it have the same spec in terms of attaching to the mobo as the failed units? Anyone know this or experienced failures of this kind?

Cheers
Sumo

 

I haven't heard of many G1Sn units with problems. The 9500 is hard to pin down as to a definitive answer for underfill - there is some info that says it's also affected but since it's a later card, maybe not. There were some 9500 cards that had recalls but they were not underfill related. It's not one of the officially nvidia-acknowledged ones. The probable answer is that it's not - because we never hear about it failing here. I don't know for sure.

 

Thanks, I haven't seen any reports of problems with the 9500 myself either, but was just curious as recently have had experience with the infamous Nvidia problem in an HP TX1000 and a Lenovo. I've had mine for just over 2 years, though as a pure gaming machine it tends to sit unused for weeks at a time then gamed heavily for a few weeks, usually when I pick up something I want to play and work is less busy.

Will definitely update if anything changes!

 

My G1SN that I got 3? years ago is still working fine. No hardware malfunctions although the screen did have to be replaced as it started to get a yellow tint.