Does ThinkPad T61 being affected by Nivida Defective Display card?

I just brought T61 a few days ago and I am worrying about this issue.

Does ThinkPad T61 being affected by Nivida Defective Display card?


thx

 

no one knows for sure; recent rumors believe its the 8500M series... but for some reason i feel its unlikely... how many 8500M series in a laptop have u heard? its not popular enough to be costing nvdia that much money.

i hope its not the entire line of GPU... dated back to the early dedicated GPU era...

 

hi i recently got one too... you have to check ur temperatures and report for anyone to help you out here. Mine is showing pretty normal temps so far, but i've read another person's post whose quadro fx570m was hitting 95C while playing a game.

get this software - it's very convinient. http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

and if ur temps are around 60C while idle and around 80C at load, it's supposed to be ok and a normal chip... values much higher might mean it's a defective ones. also keep in mind to test this on a flat surface, not the bed or carpet like surfaces that can potentially cover the vents at the bottom.

 

95 while playing games is not extreme; a bit high; yes. but if its is done in ambient temperature of more than 30c it is not unheard off...

gpu runs hotter than cpu; idle 60 load 90 is the usuall i see. i heard the max heat is 125c.. but not to sure... but then again; the if the usual one is faulty then...

 

ohk to be honest i'm new to notebook temperatures... but this 95 seemed quite high compared to my values.

my max temps are at a room temp of around 33-35C... The max i've seen on t61 after about half hour of cricket 07 with all settings maxed out was 80. so the 95 seemed a little odd. but maybe he had blocked the vents with the surface and that forced the temps so high...

 

Slightly OT but what are do the ACPI THM0 and THM1 temperatures on the hwmonitor correspond to? I thought maybe case but they run hotter than the cpu cores.

 

it also depends on the graphic card. the fx570m is similar to 8600m gt.. so it might be a tight (thermal wise) fit in an 15.4"..

i know they are using a NVS140m with other dedicated grapchis model.. that one is the 8400 GS if i remember correctly.

 

The revised revenue projection was not only due to the laptop GPU issue, but mostly due to the ATI 4800 series GPUs which put huge pricing pressure on Nvidia, forcing them to price down many of their GPUs, especially the GTX200 series.