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GeForce 8800 GTX Recall

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-over-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From vr-zone.com: 'We have received news that all the 8800GTX cards out in the channel are being recalled due to manufacturing defect. We heard it is probably due to a resistor controlling 2D/3D switching and that leads to 3D corruption. However, the defect doesn't affect the 8800GTS cards.'"

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  1. Re:Blame Asus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It depends on the chip, but most companies tend to stick with the reference design and at most put on higher-end RAM and custom cooling (and then maybe OC the cards and sell them for a markup). Very few of the board makers bother to customize designs anymore beyond really simple things. If the problem is in the reference design then chances are all of the companies are effected. What may be going on here though is that ASUS has exclusive first dibs on making 8800GTX boards and thus are the only ones effected by this. I don't know if nVidia sells temporary exclusivity on new chips, but if ASUS is the only one effected then this is the most likely explanation.