Recommendation for a new gaming laptop.

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I wonder how much of the HP reliability in that article had to do with the nvidia GPU's overheating and desoldering from the motherboard.
 
I wonder how much of the HP reliability in that article had to do with the nvidia GPU's overheating and desoldering from the motherboard.
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Yeah it probably is a great contributor to most hp's dead...BUT every other laptop manufacturer seems to be dealing with it not HP they just point the finger at nvida. Its all about the cooling HP laptops sacrifice cooling for battery. That in my book is a big no-no I was looking at a HP laptop at best buy and it only had ONE VENT!!!!!!!. Very Very low quality materials also contribute to there early demise.
 
Odd, I guess it varies from machine to machine since I've got an Hp with an Nvidia card but none of my machine's parts have fried or otherwise effed up.

I think the core of this problem lies in that HP tends to vent it's air circulation out primarily through the bottom, and most half-brained nit-wit Laptop users leave their rigs on soft surfaces like beds or couches for hours on end, blocking the ventilation and trapping the hot air inside, causing the hotspots to melt. I've seen people do this a million and a half times. I'm glad I've got a 12-cell battery that raises the back end up so that there's more room between the vent and the surface it's on to make the air circulate better.

All laptops used to have this problem, but some companies have been wising up and making 100% of the air circulate out of the side. I think the HP Envy does this, but that model came out really recently and I don't know anybody who has one. The Pavillions (Dv**** series) still circulate 100% out the bottom, and that's HP's best selling notebook, so that might be causing HP's ratings to crash and burn.

Can anybody attest to this? where are the vents on your laptops and what model do you have?
 
My broken-ass Acer Travelmate 4060i has vents on the bottom and both sides. Overheating was probably the only problem it never had. Not HP, but I don't care.

My mom's laptop is a recent Compaq (which is owned by HP, for those who don't know), and it's got air vents only on the bottom. I don't know the exact model number, but it's a Presario.
 
My HP dv7 has never had any overheating problems AFAIK, although that's probably because I hardly ever use it on soft surfaces; it's nearly always on a desk.
 
my gf has a HP laptop, and it gets insanely hot! The barrery life isalso abysmal, and it's even worse when you compare it to my gaming laptop, which has twice the hardware and twice the battery life.

I also recall one particular auto update on her GFX drivers caused the fan to stop operating,which made the laptop feel like it was going to catch on fire! Once i rolled the GFX drivers back, the fan kicked on and everything was peachy again. Not what i would call a convient update.
 
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