Notebooks And in light of Intel's mistake, how does Nvidia do things?

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/...ctims_of_Nvidia_GPU_Failures_Are_Unhappy.html

Not quite the same way, eh?

Despite its abuses of power, how Nvidia treats its customers does make me appreciate Intel a little more.

 

I don't quite agree actually.

nVIDIA produced one dodgy component (ie: GPU), and they are admitting that fact. Why should they then be liable for the entire cost of a new computer, containing many parts worth many times more than the GPU?

The problem more lies with HP - nVIDIA are offering them the fixed GPUs, but they refuse. nVIDIA are then forced in to a corner and have to offer up a full laptop replacement...but why should they?

Intel are exactly the same. They have one tiny broken component, and they offer to fix it. Luckily in their case, it's still current hardware and all the users (ie: motherboard manufacturers) are happy enough to recall and fix. If this nVIDIA stuff had happened whilst the GPUs were current, the same would have happened then.


End of story? HP are being dicks and nVIDIA get the short end. Sure, they shouldn't have made a dodgy GPU, but these things happen as we all know.

 

Er, what? I can't understand the article - it's like I came in halfway through a conversation. What's going on .

 

And here we see another difference between how european and american laws work. If HP would try that there, they would be deep down in trouble. At least in my country (but i guess it is same in every other european country) if they can't provide you with same thing you RMAd, then they have to provide a equivalent thing in price and/or performance.

 

It's related to the infamous 8xxx series GPUs that fail like nothing else due to bad design by nVIDIA. Kills laptops and desktop cards with ease.

nVIDIA have admitted the problem, and are providing repairs/refunds on repairs/replacements for affected computers.

 

Nvidia has a reputation of fixing high-tech matters with plain methods and presenting the idea on a tribune.

(wood screws & Fermi launch for the GPU of tomorrow)

 

Huh, never knew there was THAT much of a problem. Can't they just bake the cards ?

 

Baking is a short-term solution that usually just results in the card dying a few months down the line. The problem was actually pretty massive - Apple issued repair notices for every single MacBook Pro they sold for several years for example, and just think how many of the GPUs were sold elsewhere...

 

I have an 8600M in my laptop, and that's been doing just fine folding almost non-stop

 

I have a 8400 in my HP laptop and it died a month ago, cost me £75 to get a new motherboard for it. Worked though. Shoulda got nVidia to pay

 

I've had the gpu on my laptop go twice, thought it was due to it overheating but that must have been the reason. Doesn't seem to have been publicised much, though.