[inq] Nvidia G92s and G94 reportedly failing - Overclock.net

0xygen · 08-12-08

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NVIDIA IS IN DEEP trouble over the defective parts problem, and from what we're being told, this is only the tip of the iceberg. NV still insists on stonewalling and spinning because the cost of owning up to the problem could very well sink the company.

If you haven't been following the story, the short version, up till now, is that all G84 and G86 chips are bad. Nvidia is blaming everyone under the sun, but denying they have any hand in the failures. While this may sound plausible, technical analyses by people intimately involved in the requisite semiconductor technologies tell The INQ that it is a bunch of bull: NV simply screwed up. Badly. If it was a problem with the suppliers, NV would not be paying out more than the chip cost, much less gagging OEMs: it would simply be passed along.

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Why wouldn't they? Well, the G92 chip is used in the 8800GT, 8800GTS, 8800GS, several mobile flavours of 8800, most of the 9800 suffixes, and a few 9600 variants just to confuse buyers. The G94 is basically only the 9600GT. Basically we are told all G92 and G94 variants are susceptible to the same problem - basically they are all defective. Any guesses as to how much this is going to cost?

From the look of it, all G8x variants other than the G80, and all G9x variants are defective, but we have only been able to get people to comment directly on the G84, G86, G92 and G94, and all variants thereof. Since Nvidia is not acknowledging the obvious G84 and G86 problems, don't look for much word on this new set either - if they can bury it, it will drop their costs.

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**RonindeBeatrice** · 08-12-08

Whoa... They're yammering now that all nvidia chips produced in the last year are essentially defective? And if this were true, would it really be all nVidia's fault? TSMC made the damn things.

whe3ls · 08-12-08

yes and no. thou it is nvidia's design they only make the chip nvidia tells them out of what and how to make them

trueg50 · 08-12-08

We will see..

This is Charlie, who's idea of "manufacturing execs" is really some low level employee's or managers.

The dying ones are probably just ones that have been volt modded; and Charlies idea of "quickly failing" are any units that die in the next 2-8 years.

jrharvey · 08-12-08

So does this mean i get a free upgrade?

**ENTERPRISE** · 08-12-08

Most flaws lay in the initial Design. Last I looked Nvidia designed the chips...not TSMC

nitteo · 08-12-08

Curios, I am getting EUEs off of one XFX 8800GT 512 right now. I hope its not dying.

joemaniaci · 08-12-08

Had mine for 8 months, not one went bad, if it were true, you would see a bunch of G92 users complaining the same way we complain about the 780i. . . . . . . . .all the time.

**ENTERPRISE** · 08-12-08

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Originally Posted by nitteo

Curios, I am getting EUEs off of one XFX 8800GT 512 right now. I hope its not dying.

Forgive me but what is a EUE ?

Gollie · 08-12-08

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Originally Posted by ENTERPRISE

Forgive me but what is a EUE ?

GPU2 Folding error that makes the client idle for 24 hours before fetching a new WU.

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