Nvidia graphic cards failing

[DW_Wraith]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... reportedly

excerp from the link above:

A little digging revealed what this, and more, is all about, and it's far uglier than just the 'notebook' version. It seems that four board partners are seeing G92 and G94 chips going bad in the field at high rates. If you know what failures look like statistically, they follow a Poisson distribution, aka a bell curve. The failures start out small, and ramp up quickly - very quickly. If you know what you are looking for, you can catch the signs early on. From the sound of the backchannel grumblings, the failures have been flagged already, and NV isn't playing nice with their partners.

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.

[Marbles]

my nvidia geforce4 ti4280td card crashed when the right driver was in but when i have the other version for my 420mx it wasn't as bad. =/ it had like white dots just randomly in the middle of the screen when playing unreal2004 and when just using the desktop sometimes pieces of the text would be missing. For Ex. when it says start in the bottom corner well the R in the corner is half missing.