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    Overheating, the new 9xxx-series

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Cloudfire, Jul 17, 2008.

  1. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Will the new 9xxx-series have the same problems as 8400 and the 8600 from Nvidia? Have they fixed it?
     
    Cloudfire, Jul 17, 2008
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    Well the 9500 is apparently also G84, so if the 8600 is affected, then yes the 9500 also is. But the new series, 9600, etc. are different.
     
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    Ok, that sucks pretty bad. :(
    Can someone please put up a list, or direct me to one, where it describes which one is G84 etc.. I have absolutely no clue what it means :)
     
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    Yeah, ok. So YOUR GPU is fine, but that doesnt cover the fact that a lot of people have mentioned that their laptop and GPU is way to hot. It could be mutiple reasons why though. One of the reasons i can think of is probably a bad cooling system in their laptop that affects the GPU in some way.

    But its like what the xbox owners said in different forums: "pffft, xbox360 is awesome and mine have never had the Red light of death. Therefor xbox360 doesnt have issues". Turned out that the crappy console had a 33% failure rate. ;)
     
    Cloudfire, Jul 17, 2008
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