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Alan McKinnon ha scritto: |
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> On Friday 15 August 2008 12:49:26 b.n. wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon ha scritto: |
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>> This is the second thread in a few days that reports problems with |
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>> nVidia cards. |
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>> Owning a 3rd generation Macbook Pro (nVidia Geforce 8600M GT) with |
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>> Gentoo on, I'm a bit worried. I never noticed significant problems on |
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>> that machine, but I would like to be aware of what's going on. |
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>> Is there some link explaining what problems there are with such nVidia |
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>> cards? |
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>> m. |
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> Here you go, all 26 pages of it: |
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> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=115916 |
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> Then there's also the issue of the GPU silicon failing in shocking numbers. |
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> More details on The Register and Slashdot. Apparently ALL 8 and 9 series GPUs |
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> are affected and it's hitting ALL vendors. It's related to the manufacture of |
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> those chips and they are failing in alarming numbers under thermal load. |
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> It's sad actually. This has a very high potential to sink nVidia completely. |
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Oh s**t. Thank you. Go figure I bought that MBP last year also because |
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of its nVidia card... |
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:( |
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m. |
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