WOW.com reports "If you're using an Nvidia graphics card you should check your drivers, as there is a chance the newest drivers could cause your card to overheat during World of Warcraft, the Starcraft II Beta, or even Warcraft III." They link to BlizzPlanet, which in turn refers to threads on the nVidia forums. The (Windows) driver they refer to is 196.75. The latest version available in a PPA for Ubuntu is 195.36; I am very hesitant to try it now.
P.S. How much sooner might this have been found and fixed were the nvidia driver open source!
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Just got an Ubuntu laptop with an nVidia graphics card. It's using the 195.36 version. No problems yet. Stay tuned.....
First, yay! I'm very happy for you!
Second, be sure to install the lm-sensors sensord and sensors-applet, and run the applet and configure it to show the GPU temperature.
Do let me know how you like it, and how it performs.
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