Yes, even a laptop's chipset can explode if it overheats

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Yes, even a laptop's chipset can explode if it overheats

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The concern of some users about the problems that a computer may have can be quite great, especially when we do not know the ways to solve or avoid it directly. And although on a desktop it can be quite easy to avoid, for example, problems related to the temperature of the components, in laptops it can be much more complicated, which often makes us ignore what may be happening inside the portablelike the fact that the chipset can directly explode.

Laptops have many advantages over desktops, many people use them daily because they need an extremely powerful device that they can carry around without any difficulty, that's why they use them for work, gaming , study, etc. But they also have some pretty significant disadvantages compared to static models, and it's clear that (without taking into account power loss) the biggest problem they can have is temperatures, since they're obviously not designed to be able to offer the same cooling as a desktop system.

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Temperature problems are more serious than you think

The fact that a computer has poor airflow, that it has a poor quality cooling system, or that we have a series of overclocked components when there is no way to prevent their temperatures from going down is a very big problem. And this is something that does not usually appear as a combination in desktop systems, but that we can consider as a set of errors in laptops, something that can have extremely negative consequences on its operation, making it possible to even stop its operation.

This is what happened to user NoGain2730 who shared his experience on the social network Reddit, where he explained how his “integrated GPU” exploded inside an MSI GF75 Thin laptop, revealing a chip which, as can be seen in the image, is completely destroyed. But far from being the integrated GPU, since as we well know this is located in the processor, or the dedicated one since it generally has a cooling system to prevent this from happening, it is in actually another essential motherboard chip that suffered from this. reverse, the chipset.

Laptop Chipset Problems

In this case the problem that the user encountered, as some comments indicate, lies in the way the channel through which it is transmitted manages the energy, one of the main culprits in these cases being the regulator modules voltage (VRM) which sent a voltage greater than that which it can withstand. In some cases, like this, the chipset generally doesn't have passive cooling, meaning it doesn't have good enough thermal management to prevent it from exploding or breaking due to overheating.

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