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- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Sure, they botched it ... but I'd much rather have a company do this, than pretend everything is just fine and fix the units that come back with complaints. Good job NVidia.
- Corneliusm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Hardware isn't getting worse by any means. It's just getting complex, and it's harder to test all components.
If you've RTFA, you'd see that the problem isn't with the GPU itself, but rather a resistor on the board. And it only affects some boards. I don't know if that's really nvidia's fault, since they don't make the cards.
And nvidia doesn't need the free publicity. There's enough positive hype surrounding the G80 as it is. And there's enough leaked info out there to show that it kicks ass. If anything, this publicity is quite negative as it'll probably mean that the GTX will be in very limited supply over the next couple of weeks- not to mention that recalls can be pretty expensive. If I was a shareholder, I'd be pretty upset by this. - Slovenian6474, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Much rather see companies fix their products before release rather than after.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I don't really see how this is Nvidias fault. They don't manufacture the actual cards, just the GPU on them. Seperate companies make the boards, unlike ATI where they actually make a good deal of the cards.
- Slovenian6474, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@Gutspiller
"I'd rather have a company that botches only while prototype phase myself and not actually manufacture botched cards to begin with."
Welcome to an imperfect world where mistakes happen. - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13What exactly is inaccurate? The summary clear says 8800GTX.
- bigz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Err, it's inaccurate because you work for Nvidia and know exactly what's going on? For your reference, the title of the news story is "NVIDIA recalls GeForce 8800 GTX Batch". Sigh, idiot.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I guess you're not a macbook user then :)
- Sedako, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yes, but the title is true in relation to the article. These ARE 8800's and they are being recalled. That's all the title needs to tell you in order to get the gist of the article before you read it.
- codelogic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm not sure how you think that a recall is good publicity. Oooh the 8800GTX has been recalled, I better run to the store and pick one up right now!
I don't remember NVidia ever having issued a recall on any of their products before, so I doubt this is one of their publicity 'tricks'. Apparently the issue is a trivial one and even the cards that have been recalled are expected to perform fine for the time being.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35550 - SirZRX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8***** happens
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Exactly. And as Slovenian6474 said, what would you prefer, the Nvidia recalling cards before they've been launched due to problems, or asking you to send them back a week after you've bought one? With the amount crammed onto these GPUs, it's almost a miracle they even work at all, these sort of things are bound to happen.
- bigz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2DUGG DOWN for being a retard. RTF Summary (note where it says "there has been a manufacturing problem with a batch of the GeForce 8800 GTX cards"), and then RTFA.
- vilennon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The only thing wrong with it is that it superimposes "Help, I'm trapped in a Chinese OEM factory!" over the display.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow this thread show how much misunderstand people have about the whole process.
Did you now that even with the neat technology we have not every cpu(or any complex chip) ends up in a computer. A lot of them are thrown out as flawed. - christoscamaro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*bluescreen*
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Had to say it. Not many people will know what I'm talking about. Many many others with faulty Nvidia cards will.
(I have also had a faulty ATI card) - chaimpot0k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a GOOD thing. If anyone had to deal with the 7900 fiasco a few months ago, they should be glad that this "recall" of sorts is occurring.
If you aren't familiar with the 7900 problems, they were basically caused by faulty Samsung memory chips. nVidia never admitted to the problem but my vendor, eVGA, did their best to give us working parts. nVidia finally released new SKUs with new memory after months of waiting without a working card. - musntSurfatWork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1oops, forgot to include the DirectX10 transistor logic.
- elitexero, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Buried as INACCURATE.
Only a batch were recalled, and its not affecting release at all. - K4P741NxKRUNCH, on 10/12/2007, -21/+6..or maybe nVidia just needs to improve production quality..
Just a thought.. - Jernej, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2The title however does not say it is GTX, and it does not say it is faulty resistor, and i do not work for nvidia and i actually own a ATI card...
- StatusQuoRules, on 10/12/2007, -22/+3THe X2800XT is gonna make the 8800 look old
- Jernej, on 10/12/2007, -23/+4MARKED AS INACCURATE, this only affects 8800GTX boards, which will be replaced and on sale by 8. November.
The cause is supposedly caused by a unnamed contract manufacturer which used wrong resistors...
- hogrod, on 10/12/2007, -28/+4wow what a great way to hype a new product right before it comes out, claim there is some issues just for some free publicity..... doesn't anyone test hardware anymore?
seems all manufactures have learned this "trick", or is hardware quality really getting worse?
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