Secondo "The Inquirer" tutte le VGA basate su chipset video G84 e G86 sarebbero difettose. Nell'articolo sotto linkato si avanzano dubbi anche sui chipset G92 e G94.

L'accusa avanzata da "The Inquirer" è particolarmente pesante e se dovesse rivelarsi fondata potrebbe avere conseguenze drammatiche per nvidia.

Viene spontaneo chiedersi come sia possibile, visto che le 8800 sono molto diffuse e apprezzate tra gli utenti enthusiast, notoriamente molto esigenti verso il proprio hw.

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Last month, the Inquirer made the shocking accusation that every Nvidia graphics card with the G84 and G86 chipsets were bad (every 8-series card up to the 8800 basically). Nvidia said that's crap, but the Inquirer said it was all a big cover up. Now the Inquirer is reporting that "four board partners are seeing G92 and G94 chips going bad in the field at high rates." That would mean all of the GeForce 8800 GT, GTS and GS desktop cards, the mobile 8800s, and most of the 9600 and 9800 series graphics cards are defective.

All summed up, the Inquirer is saying almost the entire run of 8 and 9-series GeForce cards are defective and "going bad in the field at high rates." More than that, they say that Nvidia will continue to cover it up because the cost of admitting the nature of the problem would be devastating, meaning we'll never know for sure. We'll just have to watch for anecdotes to pile up. We're really hoping they're wrong on this one—that's a lot of graphics cards, and if true, it could basically destroy Nvidia.
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Viene spontaneo chiedersi come sia possibile, visto che le 8800 sono molto diffuse e apprezzate tra gli utenti enthusiast, notoriamente molto esigenti verso il proprio hw.