The concern that some users have about the problems that a computer may have can be quite great, especially when we do not know the ways to solve it or directly avoid it. And although on a desktop PC it can be quite easy to avoid, for example, issues related to the temperature of the components, in laptops it can be much more complicated, making us often not aware of what can happen inside the portablelike the fact that the chipset can directly explode.
Laptop computers have a large number of advantages over desktop computers, many people use them daily because they need an extremely powerful device that they are able to transport without any difficulty, which is why they use them to work, play, study and so on. But they also have quite big disadvantages compared to static models, and it is clear that (without taking into account the loss of power) the biggest problem they can have are the temperatures, because they are obviously not designed to be able to reach offer the same cooling as a desktop system.
Temperature problems are more serious than we can think
The fact that a computer has bad airflow, that it has a low-quality cooling system, or that we have a series of overclocked components when there is no way to prevent their temperatures from being lower is a really big problem. And this is something that generally does not usually come as a combination in desktop systems, but that we can see as a set of errors in laptops, something that can have extremely negative consequences for its operation, making it possible. even stop working.
This is what happened to user NoGain2730 who shared his experience on the social network Reddit, where he explained how his “integrated GPU” had exploded inside an MSI GF75 Thin laptop, revealing a chip that, as we can see in the image, It is completely destroyed. But far from being the integrated GPU, since as we well know it is located in the processor, or the dedicated one since it usually has a cooling system to prevent this from happening, it is really another essential chip within the motherboard that has suffered this setback, the chipset.
In this case, the problem that the user has had, as indicated by some of the comments, is in how the channel through which it is transmitted manages energy, with one of the main culprits in these cases being the voltage regulator modules (VRM) that have sent a higher voltage than it can withstand. In some cases, like this one, the chipset does not usually have passive cooling, which means that it does not have good enough thermal management to prevent it from exploding or breaking due to overheating.
