Nvidia announced that it will set aside $200 million to deal with the latest notebook issue. The big news that is usually forgotten is that Nvidia GPUs are mostly having an issue with throttling and they actually don’t die, at least not in most of the cases.

Nvidia made a deal with big OEMs, such as Dell and HP, that they will get $200 per affected notebook and we are hearing that OEMs are quite happy about it. It turns out that this is more than generous and that this covers the cost of a new chip, the repair cost and all the other cost related to this issue.

Some end users on various forums have reported that the software released by HP sometimes sets the fan speed to maximum, making their machines really noisy, which gets frustrating; while the other users didn’t report such a change. It turns out that the software / bios update will change the fan speed only on certain models, but we couldn’t really find a pattern. Some designs are affected and some are not, but obviously, you will see more of this throttling issue with the notebooks that have a very hot environment.

End users are upset with Nvidia, as there is very limited information about the issue, but Nvidia cannot talk on behalf of its OEM partners so it’s up to HP, Dell and other big OEMs to tell their customers what is wrong or what might go wrong with their machines. It’s a real mess, as OEMs don’t really want to give much details and end users are the ones who are affected the most.

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