AMD Graphics Chips Could Last 10X To 100X Longer

An anonymous reader writes "According to a research report out of UCLA, released this morning, NVidia's high-lead bump packaging could last anywhere from 1/10th to 1/100th as long as AMD's advanced eutectic bump approach. (TG Daily has picked up the claim.) NVidia is currently in the midst of a $200M recall of bad GPUs, and the report suggests that the issue could be much deeper than NVidia's PR department would have us believe." The report lends credence to the strident claims of the Inquirer's Charlie Demerjian, which we discussed a month back.

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I know this has been said before...

[BorgAssimilator]

...but with all the issues that have come out of nVidia products recently, I think it may be about time to switch over to ATI (again).

I actually started with ATI. Then I installed linux and started actually using it. I realized that the fglrx drivers just weren't worth the hassle, so my next card was nVidia, and I've stuck with them until now mainly for that reason. However, with the open source ATI drivers gaining support, it might be time to switch over.

Writing this I've come to notice that the actual performance issues between ATI and nVidia haven't ever been a main cause for me to choose between the two. I'm not saying that performance isn't an issue, but the choice between them (at least for me) was based mostly on reasons other than performance, including quality / life span of products, support (including tech support), and even company ethics.

Oh, and of course the whole whether it runs well on linux or not, but that's a given.