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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: mistybear on October 17, 2008, 11:08

Title: Inquirer: Pretty Much Every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 Graphics Card Is
Post by: mistybear on October 17, 2008, 11:08

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

                                                                       LINK (http://gizmodo.com/5035980/inquirer-pretty-much-every-nvidia-geforce-8800-9600-and-9800-graphics-card-is-defective)

Title: Re: Inquirer: Pretty Much Every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 Graphics Card Is
Post by: Simon on October 17, 2008, 11:11

Never had a problem with them myself.   :dunno:

Title: Re: Inquirer: Pretty Much Every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 Graphics Card Is
Post by: mistybear on October 17, 2008, 11:14

It is quite concerning, considering how much these cards can cost.

Title: Re: Inquirer: Pretty Much Every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 Graphics Card Is
Post by: TR on October 17, 2008, 11:45

Must admit mine does some odd things at times ..ie not starting after a screensave or after a while when logging on the screen goes black..have never got to the bottom of it, maybe that's the answer  ???

Title: Re: Inquirer: Pretty Much Every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 Graphics Card Is
Post by: Camstop on October 17, 2008, 12:05

Hmmm Sounds a bit like ATI skulduggery to me  ':|

Onboard is the way forward  :thumbs:

Title: Re: Inquirer: Pretty Much Every Nvidia GeForce 8800, 9600 and 9800 Graphics Card Is
Post by: mistybear on October 17, 2008, 12:10

If you read the other articles at the bottom.........

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Really Nvidia, what the hell? After steadfastly arguing that its defective graphics cards were limited to notebooks only—they've even sent me a lovely email or two reiterating that claim—HP has just confirmed that 38 different desktop models are plagued with faulty Nvidia graphics cards.