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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OptiplexFx" data-source="post: 5393690" data-attributes="member: 208281">I think there is a problem in the thermal design of the heat sink assembly and the 8400M series chip. I have a DELL XPS M1330, it has a well known history of GPU failures. There was some talk about this on the net last year. nVidia and DELL finally admitted that there is problem with some of their 8400M and 8600M series based notebooks. DELL even released a new BIOS update to run the FAN all the time (what a lame fix <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/angry.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angry:" title="Angry    :angry:" data-shortname=":angry:" />).  To make matters worse DELL has put a thick thermal pad between the GPU core and heat sink. I have seen a special copper mod on the internet for this problem, but didn’t try that cos I still have 1.5 more years of warranty left on this thing (got a 3 year complete care).P.S : flashback, sorry for going off topic.. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/wink.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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