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- frgmstr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Or gasp....they are actually telling the truth. ;) I have personally spoken to these companies in-depth about the problems and have reason to believe that what is being said is mostly true. Will a few cards slip through the cracks? Very likely, but also very likely that will be confined to some B&M retailers that were not able to move fast enough to get the cards back in time. I doubt hardly any defective cards will make it to consumers hands.
As for whether or not it is a mistake of Flextronics China or a slip in NVIDIA specs to them is yet to be seen so I would not make assumptions about that.
The bottom line is that NVIDIA has fully stepped up to the plate in terms of support for the AICs and kept this from being a show stopper. I can think of some companies and AIC organizations that could have in no way pulled this off. Kudos to these guys and the success they will enjoy this week.
And the G80 is freaking incredible in gameplay....yes, that is my full technical analysis. :) - JEWigs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8My guess is Base Object Model. Though I suppose it could be Barrel of Monkeys...
- joincamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7BOM - Bill of Materials
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Give me a break. So he used an 'e' instead of an 'a'. Big deal. I can't believe you took the time to write a comment about it...
- Sedako, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sorry, but eVGA has never given me any ***** when it comes to customer support. Plus, no one else has a 3-month step up program, which will allow me to turn my GX2 into an 8800GTS for pretty much free. No complaints here.
- maccam94, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not to be a nitpicker, but it was actually an incorrect resistor value. It may have screwed up the time function of a capacitor, but the original problem was stated to be an incorrect resistor (a la earlier digg topic).
- Halodude1489, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3EVGA is a good company, I have yet to see another company do the step up program and they have pretty decent RMA times, so please hush.
- steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What the hell is BOM? I know ROM, but BOM?!
- jwigum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's what I recall as well. Glad someone else saw it(it means I'm still partly sane).
At least it's not exploding caps ;) - cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+2Sorry for abusing the reply, but I have to point out that this issue was resolved very quickly according to many sources and the INQuirer have just reviewed the 8800GTX and found it to be absolutely amazing. Honestly I appologise for linking the article but you can find it here - http://digg.com/hardware/NVIDIA_G80_First_review_of_the_8800GTX_and_the_8800GTS . Very interesting review - they mention the capacitor problem and that it has been resolved. They even test the EVGA model in particular.
- HaMMerHeD, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8It looks to me a lot of marketing spin. Of course they don't want customers to worry about buying their new uber-expensive video cards. I do hope they get their issues sorted and repaired before launch, but it seems...well...I just hope they make it.
On a side note, I feel bad for NVIDIA's engineers, having their manufacturing partner drop the ball on them, and to find out about it so close to launch. In my development career, a showstopping bug was my worst nightmare in the weeks before launch - Arkonnan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@HaMMerHeD
I'm surprised you were dugg down for being so forward. But you summed it up nicely. These responses were not surprising at all. What did people think they would say, "oops, Nvidia dropped the ball and we aren't going to make the launch as a result"?
This "article" is nothing but a PR fluff piece trying to reassure people that everything is going to be okay and that they can spend their money with confidence. Now whether that is the reality of the situation remains to be seen. - LordofShadows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2..?
- joincamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BOM problems? Isn't that Polish?
- Koosebane, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4This is precisely why I'm waiting until early '07 to build my Vista/DX3D10 game beast.
- t-readyroc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Early adopters FTW!
- endgame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have never had ANY problems with BFG!
Now where are those new Nforce boards I'm getting one!!! - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The eVGA G80 cards are black. :)
http://www.extremepc-fr.com/news/data/upimages/test8800gtx.jpg - airiox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so much for the new digg algorithm blocking certain members from whoring digg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm a big fan of Nvidia, I have a crappy EVGA Geforce FX 5200. I've never had problems the only issue i had was with my heat sink fan on my Geforce 2 MX screwed up, but I'm a loyal Nvidian
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BOM.. Bill Of Materials.
It's an extensive list of all the parts that made an assembly. In this case The assembly is the video cards wit hall it's components that have to be solder to the card. You need a BOM in order to place orders or demand estimations of how much each part will cost. It's also used as a final check list so you know you got all you need to complete the assembly. - spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BOM, so what, they made the thing with the wrong materials?
- greyfade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the difference between affecting something and getting an effect is stark. they don't even mean opposite things. they mean completely different, if related, things. one is a noun, the other is not.
- crxyem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1BOM = Bill of Materials
- Nistavar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2XFX rocks the world once again with no "Working closely" ***** like the other two of those companies, EVGA and BFG. Black graphic cards FTW !!!
- guchdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm not too surprised with BFG. My company needed some decent 3D cards for a 3D application we are developing we bought 5 BFG cards to test out. 4 out of 5 did not work on a brand new high end HP workstation, on all 5 systems. Basically to make a long story short it seems like they were not compatible to HP worked fine on a generic system. One thing I do give them is they answer their phones as for support they were blaming the manufacture. I don't believe that their QA department is up to snuff.
- MartynX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Nvidia will have to go some to sell me on this, I'm still smarting over that whole "7900gtx crapping out at any speed above stock" debacle (as in, crapping out at the speed it was running out-of-the-box, thanks for that xfx).
As soon as I saw nvidia + gtx + problems, my wallet went back in pocket.
I understand that some will say "it isn't Nvidias fault, it's the add in board makers!", I like to call those people "wrong".
Hopefully nvidia will sort this out, and kudos for being upfront (this time), but I certainly won't be buying out of the first batch (this time). - Rolsen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Yea, I got burned on the 7900GTX also. Ended up buying an ATI X1900XTX, but I was hoping to utilize the SLI support on my motherboard. Guess we'll have to wait for more bugs to be worked out from nvidia and their manufactures.
- musntSurfatWork, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0so buy the LEADTEK ONES, watch for my ebay auctions as soon as I get my hands on 10 pieces. eta 7-14 days
- RetroRufio, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Acronyms Much!?
- fernando26, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3Ryan Dumas, Technical Marketing Manager – XFX says:
"The only *effected* boards were those very early samples sent out to the press."
Should read:
"The only *affected* boards were those very early samples sent out to the press."
It doesn't look good on a company when one of its marketing managers can't use proper english.
*crosses fingers and hopes to not be affected by Skitt's Law*
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