As reported by bit-tech this morning,
there are in fact problems with new GeForce 8800 GTX cards in the field and this does include North America. The problem is related to one single resistor on the 8800 GTX. It seems that
after 3 to 4 hours of solid gameplay, the 8800 GTX will possibly hard-lock your entire system. The 8800 hard-launch is scheduled for this Wednesday and we are hearing that
NVIDIA is doing everything possible to pull all of the cards back in, get them repaired, and then shipped back out to retailers.
While we could not get any public comments currently from North America add-in-card partners, it is our understanding that NVIDIA is taking the issue head-on and reacting in the ways needed in order to fix the issues. For those of you that are not in the know,
it has become commonplace for Flextronics in China to build the first runs of high-end new-release video cards for NVIDIA that are then dealt to the AIC partners for branding. So yes, this resistor problem does impact “all” of the cards in North America and Europe.
It was however explained to us that
this problem is not present on the first-run 8800 GTX cards that went out to reviewers, so reviews that you read on Wednesday should not reflect the issue. Certainly we will keep you up to date. But is seems that NVIDIA is doing everything possible to make sure this problem does not manifest itself in the hands of its early adopters of GeForce 8800 technology.
This problem does not extend to the GeForce 8800 GTS.
Ujesh Desai, NVIDIA’s General Manager of the GPU group, had this to say when we asked him for comment on the story.
Citiraj:
|
You got it 100% correct. Some GeForce 8800 GTX boards that were built through our contract manufacturer had a simple BOM error - wrong resistor value. GeForce 8800 GTS boards are not affected by this. We have been working with our Add-In-Card vendors to change the resistor to the correct value. We should still be able to hit our hard launch this week (Nov 8th) with the new GeForce 8800 GTX boards, so this should not be an issue for end users.
|
Izvor:
[H]ard|OCP