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All Nvidia G84 and G86s are Defective

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/all-nvidia-g84-and-g86s-are-defective.92856/

george101
george101 Original post #1
Jul 12, 2008 at 7:41 PM
THE BURNING QUESTION on everyone's mind is what Nvidia parts are failing in the field? No GT200 jokes here, NV personnel are still quite sensitive about that, but our moles have told us about the bum GPUs.

The short story is that all the G84 and G86 parts are bad. Period. No exceptions. All of them, mobile and desktop, use the exact same ASIC, so expect them to go south in inordinate numbers as well. There are caveats however, and we will detail those in a bit.

Both of these ASICs have a rather terminal problem with unnamed substrate or bumping material, and it is heat related. If you ask Nvidia officially, you will get no reason why this happened, and no list of parts affected, we tried. Unofficially, they will blame everyone under the sun, and trash their suppliers in very colourful language......

Read the whole story
Pat
Pat #2
Jul 12, 2008 at 11:47 PM
Now thats really interesting. Lets see how nvidia reacts to customer complaints now.
x3060
x3060 #3
Jul 13, 2008 at 12:14 AM
ovens they are, burn ;they do to us...that's ok for graphics Card is what we say,
we still love them, but defective, don't think people will tolerate.