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P.S. Just realised this is old news, its over a year old and came up in my google news 2 days ago??? I'm going back to play my PS3 now ... bye.]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:12:30 GMT http://apcmag.com/nvidia_disaster_thousands_of_gpus_faulty.htm#comment28345 Quoting Tin:
What the heck have you been doing to them? Or did you buy a long string of ultra-cheap nVidia cards followed by a decent ATI one?
I've used 8 different nVidia cards in my desktop over the years, and never had problems.

Regarding the topic of the article, it's a one off issue with a line of chips. This has happened to Intel, AMD and who knows how many other chip manufacturers... Bad designs happen, and you sometimes don't know until the products are out there.


lol. my first one was a simple onboard geforce card. no surprise it went down in a couple of months. for that one, it got terrible artefacts- even on the windows XP desktop.

the second one was(at the time) a relatively high- end card: the 7900GTX.
what went wrong with that one was that within 6 months of owning it- the shaders went awry, and windows took on a wonderful technicolor look that only irritated me.

the costs to get it repaired(i lost the receipt) was not worth it- so i bought an el cheapo ati radeon 9550. that card lasted me nearly 2 years before i bought a RADEON 3850HD. that was wheni was converted. for $179 i had a card that flattened the same low- end nvidia cards with an overclock, and this wa susing AGP too.

i now have a 4850, and i am yet to have a complaint. it is not the best card out on the market, but i do not intend on running crysis on it.

the most demanding game i play on it is UTIII, and i can manage a very much playable 70fps in game


]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:34:48 GMT http://apcmag.com/nvidia_disaster_thousands_of_gpus_faulty.htm#comment28344 Quoting apt.pupil:
if not for the massive price-performance advantage, i also have had every nVIDIA card on me fail within 6 months.


What the heck have you been doing to them? Or did you buy a long string of ultra-cheap nVidia cards followed by a decent ATI one?
I've used 8 different nVidia cards in my desktop over the years, and never had problems.

Regarding the topic of the article, it's a one off issue with a line of chips. This has happened to Intel, AMD and who knows how many other chip manufacturers... Bad designs happen, and you sometimes don't know until the products are out there.]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:21:15 GMT http://apcmag.com/nvidia_disaster_thousands_of_gpus_faulty.htm#comment28331
i read a little something about this a couple of days ago in PCPP, but i thought nothing of it.

now i have taken the time to read what went wrong, and am glad that i now only choose AMD/ati gear.

if not for the massive price-performance advantage, i also have had every nVIDIA card on me fail within 6 months.

i have enough issues keeping track of receipts for warranties- so i choose AMD, and i have upgraded 3 cards in a row without really needing to- except for the imporved power]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:53:25 GMT http://apcmag.com/nvidia_disaster_thousands_of_gpus_faulty.htm#comment28312 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:58:05 GMT