Honestly I can ' t even recall exactly what it was , I just remember having constant driver issues and GPU failures and I was just tired of it . Could have been a bunked card , but after the fan breaking on the first within days and then that , I quickly gave up hope . Fair to say I ' m probably salty over it haha <| sep |> This has been my experience . I ' m not really sure what these other people are doing to max out their processors and cause overheating in 5 minutes , but if that ' s the case they ' d probably be better off with a iMac or Mac Pro , something where they can really go crazy with their intense processing issues , and skip a laptop altogether IMO . Note I edit 4 k videos and do iOS development , on an all day basis . None of that causes overheating , honestly the only time it gets too hot is actually watching hires videos for long periods of time i . e . all day netflix .