The drama continues...

First the inquirer says all 8400 and 8600 nvidia cards are defective, then nvidia says no.

Now all major blogs are reporting that according to the Inquirer, pretty much every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 graphics card is defective. Lookie here.

Who do you guys think is telling the truth? You think this might make apple switch to ati again?

I know sam has been drinking the ati koolaid for a while, but what do the rest of you think

 

look on the NBR home page

 

Personally, with the ease and popularity of overclocking, especially with so many desktop graphics cards coming factory overclocked, I wouldn't be surprised if the increase in failures isn't correlated to the overclocking trend going mainstream. Makes you wonder why people keep requesting Apple put a 8800M or similar high-end GPU into a 1" MBP.

 

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what about the nbr homepage?

 

Last time I checked, Apple was currently still using nvidia cards in their mbp's.

 

I meant ATI... lol

there.

 

Boo!

But honestly, ATI's on a much better track than NVIDIA currently is...the new ATI X2 graphics cards are giving better performance than the 200-series NVIDIAs. Of course, we still have to see what ATI is planning to do with mobile graphics. But I'm a staunch supporter of ATI, at least for this generation of graphics cards .

 

Yawn. I don't overclock my card. It's working just great.

I bet it's all about overclocking like Lt. Comm. Data pointed out.

 

I have a feeling sooner or later nvidia is going down and going down REAL HARD that they no longer will exists.

 

if that happens,then we ati 5870(i mean the next series) will cost 600$

 

as cdnalsi said, the big YAWN...

once again the source of all this "news" is The Inquirer, which doesn't exactly have a good track record, or any kind of record at all. It is highly unlikely that a majority of these cards have or will fail, as they have been used for, HOW LONG NOW? nearly 2 years at this point?

the only thing this proves is why the internet is a terrible place to get legitimate news. Anyone can mention anything and it will get spread around like absolute truth in 5 seconds.

but I guess that is how all the major news networks work around the world as well.

 

If you look at the technology section of the inquirer their pretty resourceful and they dont pull **** out of their *** or anything they actually look into it talking to investors with evidence.

They even know for a fact that Nvidia never changed their asic boards on all the 8xxx gpu and there are no special batches.

Clearly you can tell that nvidia is not coming out truthfully saying that all the 8xxx series gpu are defective because that would ruin them and instead the filed with the sec and lied and took a measly 200 million that wouldnt even begin to cover how much damage this will do.

Also I'm glad I sold my mbp with the nvidia gpu because I know for a fact it will die within 1-2 years and since I'm not a hardcore gamer or 3d user that heat cycling wouldnt be as bad and will be more like cold to warm instead of cold to hot and probably last me a little over 3 years when apple care has expired.

I guess you'd need a new laptop after 3 years anyway right? But for me, I always like to keep my older notebooks as my 2nd machine or even sell it after 3 years especially apple notebooks for 700-800 bucks and use it towards a new toy.

 

Whoa that post hurt my brain. Holy run on sentence batman!

 

Sorry on the iphone, no patience hehe.

 

i'm going to get one of the remaining MBP with the ultra defective-will-burn-your-house-down 8600M GT before they release the new ones GO ME

 

Hey Sam, how does the ATI Crossfire 3870 compare to the NVIDIA 8800GTX or 9800GT in SLI? I'm getting mixed reviews.

 

The ATi's 3dmark 06 score is higher but real-life performance such as Bioshock or Crysis is lower for some reason. Got that off of notebookcheck.com.

But what does that have to do with anything?

 

it may be bc of drivers