Inquirer: Pretty Much Every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 Graphics Card Is Defective
Last month, the Inquirer made the shocking accusation that every Nvidia graphics card with the G84 and G86 chipsets were bad (every 8-series card up to the 8800 basically). Nvidia said that’s crap, but the Inquirer said it was all a big cover up. Now the Inquirer is reporting that “four board partners are seeing G92 and G94 chips going bad in the field at high rates.” That would mean all of the GeForce 8800 GT, GTS and GS desktop cards, the mobile 8800s, and most of the 9600 and 9800 series graphics cards are defective.
All summed up, the Inquirer is saying almost the entire run of 8 and 9-series GeForce cards are defective and “going bad in the field at high rates.” More than that, they say that Nvidia will continue to cover it up because the cost of admitting the nature of the problem would be devastating, meaning we’ll never know for sure. We’ll just have to watch for anecdotes to pile up. We’re really hoping they’re wrong on this one—that’s a lot of graphics cards, and if true, it could basically destroy Nvidia. [Inquirer - Thanks Jagslive!]
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meh, I haven’t had a single problem with my 8800GTS. Had it 4 1/2 months.
4/12 months is probably too long ago. This is a recent batch. My mate who bought a 9600GT just a couple months ago is dodge. Forums the world over are reporting issues with these cards too.
it happen in MacBook Pro and Dell’s laptop…
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the nuclear explosion pic. Looks just like my computer, which fried last month. Fried motherboard and damaged hard drive. Put Nvidia GEForce 8600 into newly-built computer — and it blew up, too. Maybe it damaged motherboard, as well — but thankfully, Intel is replacing that. Until a few minutes ago, had no idea about the Nvidia problems — and thought it was just my bad luck.
Yeah I had that happen, Brand New 8800GT in an Asus SLI deluxe, put it in, fried my pc. I fought with it, Asus said it was the mobo and they replaced it. Reinstalled XP multiple times, always unstable, crashing, different HD, CD-ROM, Cables, Memory-no difference. That card F’d something up.
I have a 9400 from Dell, with a 7900GS.
My first two adapters generated so much heat that they fried their own memory (MOBO was also replaced on the first service call)
I am now on my THIRD 7900GS, which I received last week. I can’t game for more than 2 minutes with the thing before it overheats. GPU actually idles at 83 celcius (XP desktop) and when the GPU is in use it climbs steadily until it crashes. What a piece of junk. Is there no quality control at Nvidia or Dell? Great way to lose customers for ever. (I just built a new desktop since I can’t rely on my Dell. Went ATI of course)