I may have gotten lucky then if its only the 8500's, I have a 8600 in my laptop thats about 6 months old.

If that really ends up being true then at least people originally in panic from the "older graphics chips" statement can rest easy.

Unfortunately, the word on the driver is that it scales all of their GPU's up for thermal sensitivity and not just the 8500M. As such I'm doubtful that this is really panning out as they claim. On top of that $150-200M for repair and replacement is quite high in such a case because the 8500 was often shown a cold shoulder to instead promote the 8400 and 8600.

Cool that we have a follow-up to the saga though, I'm a bit taxed covering AX08 right now so at least I can even sneak a peak at whats going on from when I posted yesterday.