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Re: nVidia 8700/8800/9600/9800 chips are failing across the board
Well both my 8800's worked fine, my 8600 worked fine, and now my 260 works fine.
I know they are having a problem with defective chips. but your title is a little off. the 8800/9600/9800 series are all for the most part Great cards.
It's the MOBILE chips that are Failing across the board. the 8400GS, and the 8700GS.. I've NEVER seen a 8700.. lol, thats cuz it's only in Laptops.
and the reason these are failing, is not because the chips suck, it's because they are not getting Sufficient cooling.. I'm not saying it's the laptop MFG's fault, but it's not all Nvidia's. They both need to work harder, Communicate, and make sure there items will work together, before someone buys this cool new Skinny laptop that barely fits a videocard. then he games on it all night and it gets over 100C in there, yes the chips are going to start melting.
I'm not saying Nvidia has no problems. cuz they very much do right now, with these cards, and some Mobo's. but it's not all there fault. and in the Desktop area, the GFX card area is pretty sound and solid IMO.
Just my $0.02 |