GeForce 8800 GTX Recall 84
An anonymous reader writes "From vr-zone.com: 'We have received news that all the 8800GTX cards out in the channel are being recalled due to manufacturing defect. We heard it is probably due to a resistor controlling 2D/3D switching and that leads to 3D corruption. However, the defect doesn't affect the 8800GTS cards.'"
Red alert! (Score:3, Funny)
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Us that do get the reference are truly superior in our nerdiness..
twisted transistor (Score:1)
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We're not gonna take it! No! We ain't gonna take it!
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Note... this is back when 6800 Ultra nVidia's were king, I haven't bought / needed to buy one since. I'm quite happy with my Ultra. Previously to that I had a 9600 Pro, also a good card, but a pita for linux compared to nVi
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But this only applies to built by ATI.. scew the others
the 9600pro is a nice card.. i had one then picked up a x800pro.. on regret is that 3 months after i got it they came out with the x850.. same damn card BUT it supports the 30in Apple display.. the x800 has the dual link dvi but can't handel the res.. the x850 can..
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Where do you live in Canada? I live in Markham, where ATI was founded, and I have no problem finding an X1900GT, X1900XT, X1900XTX or even an X1950XTX at local stores. Do you live out in the boonies?
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I don't know, because if I have it installed, the system blue screens on every boot. If I boot up in safe mode and uninstall it, then boot up, system boots fine.
The system is also dramatically more stable with some old-ass hacked-up DNA drivers than with the commercial drivers which are a whole version ahead of DNA right now.
ATI getting better at writing drivers? I call shenanigans
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It's easy. (Score:1)
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Really? (Score:1)
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eVGA Warranty [evga.com] (As of June 22, 2005, all eVGA cards have a lifetime warranty).
Disclaimer: I don't work for eVGA, I prefer Sapphire Radeons myself =)
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That's what happens... (Score:1)
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If people were a bit more conservative we wouldn't have a 4-month release cycle for GPUs. They'd spend more time refining the technology, and you'd be doing more with less.... yada yada.
Personally, my GeForce 5200 was fine, the only reason I got a 6600 was that it was the cheapest non-turbocache PCI-E card I could get at the time [and the 7xxx series was out then]. I can play doom3/quake/enemyterritory just f
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Which is my point exactly, it's *almost* like the 7xxx series fiasco that is still playing itself out. God forbid your an early adopter...does that mean that a customer should have to buy 2 of the same card to gain the benefit of some form of advertised stability? Ummm, that's a negative good buddy...at some point people
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Nvidias business model revolves around rolling out the largest, most current consuming monstrosity possible so long as consumers keep buying it. If the customers shifted their spending habits from "I got a small wee wee and need a big pee cee" to "I really can get by with a 6xxx or 5xxx series card" they would spend more time making the middl
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But now I find it annoying that the sub-$100 market has gone completely to castrated video cards. That didn't used to be the case. I have both Radeon 8500LE and FX5700LE cards that were sub-$100, and I'm quite happy with them. The features are all there, just the clock is slightly degraded. Obviously I'm not a hard-core gamer with cards like that, but for what I do, they're fine. On my newest system, I searched until I found an nVidia 6200 card that was not TurboCac
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It's also stunning just how populated the crap-space is. There must be more castrated cards than there are high-end cards. Now that I think of it, I wonder if
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I do agree - the 6200 was a castrated card - no ultrashadow or lossless memory compression - but it was an exception.
All current 7000-series Nvidia cards have the same feature-set, with the exception of hardware SLI connectors. The 7300 GS is the only TurboCache card, and even with that limitation it manages to outperfor
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If I want to spend $500+ on a video card every 4 months, why does that bother you?
You readily admit you aren't an early adopter, so why do you care that early adopters run into instability problems? Isn't that their choice to make? If am going to buy all the latest tech before it even hit the shelves I expect such issues on occasion.
As has been said -- without early adopters paying the big $$ for the research, budget products would likely not exist.
I've seen this before (Score:4, Funny)
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Manufacturer insists their manufacturing tools have placed the resistor the correct way round.
Their engineers say the entire reference board has been specified backwards.
Resistor? (Score:2)
Not even a flip-flop or a transistor!
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Re:+1 Scifi nerd (Score:4, Funny)
Even better, the recall took place before the units reached the retail market.
That's right, they can recall it wholesale.
KFG
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I nearly fell out of my chair.
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Off topic, but things just haven't been mod'ed up lately. Articles with a couple hundred comments, and just a few at +5?
Why the sudden stinginess with giving out mod points?
(And, no, I'm not expecting an informative response to this... but it would be nice.
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KFG
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KFG
Blame Asus (Score:2)
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Looks like Nvidia is using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), atleast for their reference boards anyway.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=35348 [theinquirer.net]
TSMC does chip fabrication. I was talking about the PCB design.
Oh No! (Score:1)
Oh well...i've waited six months for this card to come out...so a little longer won;t make much difference.
That said, its a good job they recalled them. I'd be damnably annoyed if i'd just spent $600 on a card that was made broken.
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If a tree claps and no one's around to hear it... (Score:2)
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Funny thing: many customers noticed glitches in 3D mode...what a coincidence! I guess we do need a recall!
Official Statement from Nvidia (Score:1)