All Nvidia 8xxxm Series Laptops are Defective

So my Gateway P-6831FX has been crapping the bed when gaming lately. It started slow with occasional crashes after 3 hours of playing which I attributed to dust or something else. Propped laptop up and the problem solved...or not. Now I can get 5 mins of play time in Stalker and the graphics card is at 90 degrees, laptop goes off. I figured it was my problem. Searched the internet and here is what I have found.

ALL 8xxxm Series Nvidia cards are eventually going to fail, the chips in the cards are all defective. For proof of this read the following articles;

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/08/p...cs_cards_affected_by_materials_defects-2.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/400/1038400/nvidia-g92s-g94-reportedly

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/378/1004378/why-nvidia-chips-defective

Sorry to everyone this will affect. The days of your laptop are limited.

 

sorry to tell you but This is really really old if you looked around we've known for at least 3-4 months. probably ever since the 9xxx series been out

 

We've already had at least half a dozen threads on this. Summary: it's highly unlikely to be all of the 8xxx series and the problem does not manifest itself as overheating (which is what you're experiencing). The GPU just dies, in fairly short order, whether you play games or not.

 

The g92 core is not defective, just because theinquirer has a bug up their butt about nvidia doesn't make them right. It would be very obvious by now if the g92 cores where bad, sorry to tell you, but its your laptop not everyone else's. Defective laptops are not uncommon, thats what warranties are for.

 

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