According to an Intel document sent to Motherboard and corroborated by several motherboard vendors, GPUs can cause elevated temperatures in motherboards, damaging them over time. This makes sense because most gaming laptops use GPUs for intense workloads that stress cooling systems and components like CPUs and RAM chipsets. As with any high-power device, increased power draw will mean higher temperatures, which lead to various safety measures being put in place to minimize the risk of overheating components or, worse — hardware malfunctioning due to thermal runaway and system failure.