Comments on: Inquirer: Pretty Much Every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 Graphics Card Is Defective

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:06:14 +0000

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)

By: Dallas

Dallas — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:16:29 +0000

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.

By: jdr

jdr — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:12:37 +0000

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.

By: Alwin

Alwin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:43:14 +0000

it happen in MacBook Pro and Dell’s laptop…

By: Hung-Su

Hung-Su — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:40:25 +0000

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.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:02:05 +0000

meh, I haven’t had a single problem with my 8800GTS. Had it 4 1/2 months.