1GB NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420M

[movingtables]

Just wondering if the new Nvidia mobile chips suffer from overheating
like the older ones did some time ago ?
think they used to melt the motherboard the older chips.

looking at a new dell xps15 with 1GB NVIDIA GeForce® GT 420M in it.

thanks.

 

[Strepsils]

think they used to melt the motherboard the older chips.

I lol'ed quite heavily at that.

I doubt Nvidia will not have fixed this somehow.

 

[Rroff]

It will depend a lot on the cooling used by whoever makes the laptop tbh... try and find ones based on a clevo chassis as they put some decent cooling on them (tho adds to the weight).

 

[deusexlumina]

as a side note, i hope you're not planning to use that 420 for serious gaming. It's not very powerful, in fact the 1gb memory on it is probably a bit of a waste.

 

[movingtables]

Cheers guys.
no not planning on using it for games.

I think the chip that used to get to hot was the 8400m from nvidia. lots of them were used in the Dell Studio laptops and many people had to have their motherboards replaced due to it warping it.

I would probably imagine that they have fixed this floor in their mobile designs but you never know hence the inquiry lol.