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Apologies if this has been covered already, but it looks like a potentially very costly boo-boo.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/09/nvidia-g84-g86-bad
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...have nV (heh) completely lost the plot? 
What I fear is if it basically becomes AMD vs Intel in the video card market as well. nV's reaction to the announcement of 'Laughabee' was bizarrely OTT, in fact.
'Come down from your swell co-ops, you general partners and merger lawyers! It's the Third World down there! Puerto Ricans, West Indians, Haitians, Dominicans, Cubans, Colombians, Hondurans, Koreans, Chinese, Thais, Vietnamese, Ecuadorians, Panamanians, Filipinos, Albanians, Senegalese and Afro-Americans! Go visit the frontiers, you gutless wonders!'
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I'm slightly worried as my laptop has an 8600M GT. It's been with me since January, and during that time I've had it overclocked and playing Assasin's Creed and Crysis (to name a few). If this news hadn't come out I wouldn't have questioned it. As I only have a 12 month guarantee on it, I'd rather it break sooner rather than later.
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It's going to get a lot worse for Nividia.
What with defective GPU dies,causing a product failure, and estimated it's going to cost Nividia $150 million to $200 million to sort out, and I reckon it will be nearer 2 or 3 times that amount.
HP has problems with faulty Nvidia cards, and Dell is also having some serious problems with their XPS range, not sure what though.
And what with ATI turning the screw with the very sucessful HD4850 and HD4870 cards, and other varients not too far away, it's going to be a very interesting time watching Nvidia trying to sort its self out.
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MartenReed (14/07/2008)
It's strangely ironic, if you think about it.
Intel are running hoops around AMD, yet AMD are running hoops around nVidia now.
Anyone think Intel and nVidia should merge?
Not Intel. They think video cards are old hat.
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| I think the AMD/ATI partnership has yet to bear it's best fruit, and the 48X cards are only the beginning. Granted, their CPU's are being outperformed by Intels at every level, but you can't get an entire system from Intel, just CPU and MOBO, whereas AMD give you MOBO, CPU, and GPU. I think Intel have a good gauge of the future, seeing as Larrabee would give them this GPU capability (albeit in a different manner = CPGPU is the term I think?), and nVidia are left out in the cold. Their chipsets are poor in comparison, and the only option for SLI. I'd be investing in AMD if only I had the cash spare... *sigh*
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| Sorry, my bad. I wasn't considering those shite integrated things as GPU's, although I suppose technically they are... Intel don't make a *decent* GPU, is what I should have said...
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