Defective NVIDIA Notebook GPUs Outed by Manufacturers

Back in the beginning of July, NVIDIA’s stock tumbled because the company released information saying “significant quantities” of their laptop GPUs were defective. The problem essentially resulted in higher than normal failures in production, and over heating from the company’s GPUs that were included in notebooks which were already shipping.

Now, Dell and HP have released a list of affected machines, which include the GeForce 8600M and 8400M, the GeForce Go 7000 and 6000, as well as the Quadro NVS 135M and the Quadro FX 360M. There is another potential problem in the fact that this isn’t a definite list, and more GPUs may have the same issues; only NVIDIA knows which ones are affected.

Something needs to be done at NVIDIA’s camp, whether it include offering a recourse for computer manufacturers or a solid driver fix, if more problems show up down the road with pertaining to this heat issue, the company may have a bigger problem to maintain.

So now that HP’s joined Dell in releasing information on which laptops have those defective NVIDIA GPUs, we can sort of piece together which chips are faulty — and just as had been rumored, it looks like basically every Geforce 8600M and 8400M chip is affected. That’s not good news for NVIDIA, which has been saying that only “previous-generation” chips were problematic — unless the chipmaker is planning on updating the hugely popular 8×00 series sometime, say, now, that’s not exactly true, now is it?