This board was standard in budget-to-mid-range Acer systems from roughly 2007 to 2009. It worked well for office tasks and light multimedia—until you tried to upgrade.
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: Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium D, and Celeron D (FSB up to 1333MHz).
The term "patched" often refers to addressing the issue, a known defect in the 90nm/80nm NVIDIA GPU process nodes used in this chipset. These chips were prone to premature failure due to inappropriate die underfill, causing overheating and system crashes.