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    945gm chipset question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by boxman, Aug 30, 2011.

  1. boxman

    boxman Notebook Guru

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    My two Presario laptops both have full-featured 945gm motherboards (HP part number 417036-001).

    Does this mean that they don't have the dreaded, overheating, Nvidia GPU's?
    Does "945gm" denote the actual GPU chip?

    Also, when I open one of them up to upgrade the cpu and clean the fan & vents, should I install a copper shim on the cpu and/or gpu, or not?

    Thanks--
     
    boxman, Aug 30, 2011
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    MoabUtah Notebook Consultant

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    MoabUtah, Sep 10, 2011
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