Posted 07/10/2008 at 03:24:58pm

So what about the OEM's, they arent at fault for using thermal pads instead of thermal paste such as artic silver? I see this as a to part problem, The OEMs not providing enough cooling ability to the products the sell, as well as Nvidias problem mentioned in the above article. My question is why only the 8400 and 8600 parts, why not the 8800 parts? and what about laptops built by "specialty shops such as prostar, xoticpc and the such. are they affected by the failures? I think the OEMs are to blaim as much as nvidia is for the hardware failures

Posted 07/04/2008 at 04:16:23pm

Is this problem only effecting dell laptops with thermal pads instead of paste? on Nvidias web forums, all the people that i have found talking about graphical corruption due to overheating owned dell laptops. Are we sure that Nvidia is at fault for this? i find it hard to belive since they have been making video cards for a long time.

Posted 06/30/2008 at 02:00:43pm

WTF Happened to WiMAX? If im not mistaken, WiMAX was supposed to have near 250Mbits Throughput. Also Fiber to the curb like Verizons FIOS is a better option in my opinion; Its not susceptiple to EMI, extremly scalable, plus upgrading the countries infrastructure is main focus. So why not rip up the copper and start laying down fiber. As for the rural folk, they have copper phone lines too, change it out to fiber as well, and for those that cant get it, Fiber Backbone to the WiMAX Transmission tower. The only problems I see are the Mountins, were the obvious terrain features will pose serrious obsticales for both technologies.

 Also what is to become of the freqs auctioned off by the FCC? Wouldnt those Freq bands eventually be used to provide wireless services like those described in the above article?