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Pe-Killer

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It looks as though the G84 and G86 parts are not the only parts that have been blessed by the Epic Fail Fairy. There are reports from board partners that G92 and G94 parts are failing more than they should. As you all know there are lot of G92 based cards, and 5 of those 8 are on our popular card list. That is not... good.

This is bad for Nvidia, bad for Nvidia board partners, bad for customers and good for AMD/ATI. We should all hope that the delicate GPU market competition does not get thrown out of balance.

"It seems that four board partners are seeing G92 and G94 chips going bad in the field at high rates. If you know what failures look like statistically, they follow a Poisson distribution, aka a bell curve. The failures start out small, and ramp up quickly - very quickly. If you know what you are looking for, you can catch the signs early on. From the sound of the backchannel grumblings, the failures have been flagged already, and NV isn't playing nice with their partners.

Why wouldn't they? Well, the G92 chip is used in the 8800GT, 8800GTS, 8800GS, several mobile flavours of 8800, most of the 9800 suffixes, and a few 9600 variants just to confuse buyers. The G94 is basically only the 9600GT. Basically we are told all G92 and G94 variants are susceptible to the same problem - basically they are all defective."
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http://www.gpureview.com/
I just ordered my new 9800GTx dammit.
 
IT was Amd/Ati :P

Hope that mine works for long time to come and don't blow up.
 
HA HA HA HA! well... I guess Nvidia was on that podium for a little to long. BUT this is good news for ati, and i can imagine them taking advantage of it.

However, Nvidia is a massive company, and this will shake them up, but won't bring them down to their knee's... If this was ATI/ AMD then we might find that whole company crashing...
 
Do not worry too much about this for now. The major problems are with the mobile chips in the laptops. Hopefully the report from partners, that the desktop chips are failing more than they should, is a fluke - albeit I have seen this story popping up all over the place:(. Otherwise Nvidia is in for a tough ride. Especially because they are not responding to these allegations.
 
Don't you think if this is all true would be seeing more failures of these chips? I cant say I have ever heard of these chips failing.
 
I guess going ATI was a good idea. 4850 FTW. Really appreciate the fact that someone as big as Nvidia can make mistakes. Not saying that they suck because if the mistake but it happens. Now all I wish is that Intel to go bang... Guess we can't be too greedy now can we :D
 
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