[Waldo Pepper]

Avoid anything from the HP Pavilion series. Mine worked fine until about a few weeks after the warranty expired. HP were simply not interested.

Having Googled my problem of overheating and it seems the problem was rife regarding the Nvidia chip overheating. I have had to make huge mods to the motherboard by adding highly polished copper shims plus a dose of Artic Silver paste to replace what appears to be a piece of blue tack looking snot as a heatsink transfer material over the GPU. During me finding out what was overheating it sat on top of a huge floor fan blasting cold air over everything inside.

Fortunately for me I had the skill of dismantling the thing after watching several Youtube vids of how to solve the problem.

Despite this problem, I really liked my HP lappy as I had a good optimised version of W7 installed on my SSD with all my apps which I wasn't prepared to give up and buy another. PC World wanted £35 for their "Tech guys" to install my SSD into a new laptop. Two screws and a quick swap would have been about £400/hour from experience of some dork to do.

It took many hours to dismantle fix and put back together. Not something an average Joe would want to do.....so avoid at all cost.

BTW it's still going strong but with many physical mods that include a keyboard with a slight arc to hold down the copper shimms.

In my opinion re-laptops, as we get faster and hotter with multi core CPUs, there is a limit outside Moores law where we can cool them because of the huge amount of heat generated.