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And being one of those who purchased a HP DV6000 a few years ago for my daughter and eventually failing like all others the issue with this series (and their 9000 series) was the Nvidia G34 chipsets. The heat became so great it literally warped/fried the boards. HP replaced a TON of boards and many of those replacements failed as well.