Bunnywinkles

technically all the nvidia chips will die, and so will ati chips... eventually. Just seems with the current gen nvidias they are dying quicker then they should be. who knows what the true problem is. im sure the mistake wont be made again though with the next series. But you have to admit, there has to be something wrong.

Oh and its not just nvidia, ive heard that alot of reference 4870s were/are dying too. i dont know if they ever figures it out, last i know though they were looking into the RAM.

doubt i helped :/ now that i read it i think i just sounded stupid lol

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Swifterzor

Everybody believes it, because all the lower-end chips (8600gt and below) were proven bad, and cost Nvidia millions of dollars. It may have only been the mobile parts though, I'm not really sure.

ReoEagle

They weren't proven bad for all of them, just the laptop variants (some people think a lot more than others), I know a fair amount of people that haven't had a single problem with their desktop versions, and the Inquirer has been the main source for saying otherwise.

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High lead is a known and commonly used process, thats meant to take heat up to 300C, please explain why nVidia's chip are the only ones with problems

ReoEagle

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High lead is a known and commonly used process, thats meant to take heat up to 300C, please explain why nVidia's chip are the only ones with problems

ReoEagle

They could be, I know 3 people that got DOA ones, 2 of them artifacted at stock. I think it's by chance, but I don't know could be a major one.

I think it's more along the lines that GPUs fail. People forget this, let it be simple problems or major ones, because of the very few reports on here about the G92 failing often, I honestly think it's more along the lines of, you point something out that you don't often think about and suddenly it's there and a problem, even though it's always been there with any other product that you've gotten, we just don't think about it, but you're told it's going to fail, so you believe it. =|

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High lead is a known and commonly used process, thats meant to take heat up to 300C, please explain why nVidia's chip are the only ones with problems

Twinnuke

Lets look at it this way.

90 Degrees celcius is 194 degrees Fahrenheit. When reaching these temperatures, common physics to metal and all objects apply. They will expand when hot and compress when cold. So take a can of soda. If the metal is thin or in this case the solder, it will expand and eventually pop. Now take if this can was twice the density. It would take hot to cold or in computer cases Off to On and repeated being heated to 200F then back down to Ambient. Over time the stress from the back and forth compression and expansion will loosen the solder job and eventually it will be come worthless and disconnected.

In the end it is probably because not enough solder was used to keep it sturdy or the manufacturing plant allowed air bubbles to get into the solder.

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