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