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Rumor: Channel Vendors Demand Card Makers Recall Faulty Nvidia Products

Posted 07/27/08 at 12:52:31 AM  by Paul Lilly

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It's been a rocky summer for Nvidia, who earlier this month saw its shares tumble downward after announcing it was setting aside a one-time hit of $150 to $200 million to cover warranty and repair costs associated with an "abnormal failure rate" in its mobile graphics cards. Now it appears that tough times are still ahead for the graphics card maker.

Citing un-named sources, DigiTimes claims that the faulty mobile parts have led to some channel vendors demanding graphics card parnters to issue a recall for desktop-based videocards using the same GPU core. Nvidia has maintained that the problematic parts only affect a few specific notebook models and no desktop cards, but some have suggested it could include all G84 and G86 parts.

This isn't the first rumor Nividia's been entangled with in recent times, and as with all hearsay, take this one with a grain of salt.

Image Credit: Nvidia

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TAGS: graphics, videocard, nvidia, gpu, recall, build a pc
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avatarGiven Time

Submitted by KOMMANDER on Sun, 07/27/2008 - 9:00am

 Given time all companies have their ups and downs. I have an 8600 series card and haven't had the slightest hicup. You wait long enough and Intel will have its problems and AMD will acend. Nividia went through this with 5000 series card not rendering well with DX9 so I wouldn't say that they are down and out, they just had a curveball thrown at them. The game will always go back and forth between the big teams with some winning more innings than others. Right now ATI is on the upswing but 2 or 3 cards later may be playing catch up again. I will always go with the better product no matter who makes it. KOMMANDER

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avatarATI looks better and better

Submitted by GreenTurtle on Sun, 07/27/2008 - 5:40am

 How the mighty have fallen. ATI is looking better and better to Me by the day. Although; I am using an overclocked ASUS 8600/GT/SE and never had any problems with it.....Ever.

The grass is always greener on the other side.

 

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avatarSo sorry nvidia.....thats

Submitted by gatorXXX on Sun, 07/27/2008 - 3:59am

So sorry nvidia.....thats what you get for price gauging your customers.....

ThE OnLy wAy 2 pLaY!

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