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Nvidia To Recall Every 8800 GTX/GTS Card

Posted by Zonk on from the cardtastrophie dept.

SlashRating© 42 slashdottit! tm Bill Stubbs writes "NVIDIA has admitted to a killer bug in all GeForce 8800GTX/GTS cards, and will recall all affected cards and replace them. 'An NVIDIA engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous, has just clued us in on the whole deal. This engineer claims that while allegations of poor gaming performance are correct, the reason is not really poor drivers. Brace yourself for the truth: Right after the G80 was taped out, NVIDIA discovered a bug in the vertex shader that causes the GPU to generate slightly incorrect geometry transformation data. The difference was minimal enough to escape attention but it was significant enough to render a scene incorrectly.' The article also links to a secret website which will allow gamers to purchase Nvidia cards at cost."

6 of 134 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Whoa by martinelli · · Score: 0, Troll

    For crying out loud, they deserve it.

  2. Re:Whoa by aussie_a · · Score: 0, Troll

    April Fool's Day!

  3. Re:Whoa by suv4x4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe not, but reacting/responding solely to a headline without context does, in fact, require one to be stupid - a fool, even.


    The fools are the people wasting their time to read the crap Slashdot feeds us, not just today, but every day.

    I have better things to do with my time, so I'm banning it from my news sources. Honestly, I'm already so sick of arguing with kids and clarifying poorly written article summaries anyway.

    If left to the majority of Slashdotters, Slashdot will feature daily joke articles, free porn (so they don't have to browse to another url), Vista rants, "Linux rules" pleads, and ton of Star Trek / dungeons and Dragons "news".

    Wait, short of the porn, this is what you have already. Well on the track to perfection. Have fun.

  4. Re:Mod me insightful for no particular reason by aussie_a · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about them red socks?

  5. Re:Mod me insightful for no particular reason by EonBlueTooL · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll be the first to donate my account to be +5 troll. 3 people mod me troll 2 mod me funny 2 mod me insightful 2 mod me interesting 2 mod me informative for +5 with a troll rating no?

  6. Re:Mod me insightful for no particular reason by Wonda · · Score: 0, Troll

    easy, 1 mod for troll, than underrated all the way up!
    probably better to get a few underrated first or nobody will see the troll to mod up :)