Nvidia: Significant failure of laptop GPUs

[chode_messiah]

Been saying there was a problem for 3 years this december. My go7800 GTX has been the source of all my laptops problems since the beginning. If the gpu didn't melt directly, it'd heat the pc up enough to fry a fan or hdd controller.

[Tulkas]

Its mostly consumers and expensive energy costs that are still affecting the economy, mostly consumers though. I would invest in the economy now, even though the world thinks the U.S. are the worst savers in the world. But you know what kind of company Nvidia and intel really are, and I think they should be fine.

I agree with Teck, if they had come out, and said this was on older specific processors, it wouldn't have had such a reaction. When you make a very not specific generalization, people don't know what is affected or not, and begin to sell off like crazy. Information is sooo key!

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The most valuable commodity I know of is information.

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Originally Posted by Gordon Gekko

The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip. We pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy? It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around pal, I've still got a lot to teach you.

[joe]

gently hugs my notebook with a NVIDIA 8600 chip in it...

but in all seriousness, this might be a major opportunity for both AMD/ATI (but I love saying DAMMIT better) and Intel...NVIDIA's dominated the notebook GPU segment the past few years, whereas before that ATI clearly had the advantage...if DAMMIT can finally get their act back together (see The Start Of Something Beautiful - TrustedReviews), and Intel does push forward into the GPU arena like they've been promising, then this is possibly the worst time for something like this to happen to NVIDIA...

and vega...never buy sub $10 stocks, it's a mindfuck...you see it and think it's a great opportunity, but it's an incredibly high risk...you think "well, what can I lose?"...well, you can lose $8-10 per share, and if you thought about that on a $30 or $40 stock, you'd never consider it...

[Teck]

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Originally Posted by joe

and vega...never buy sub $10 stocks, it's a mindfuck...you see it and think it's a great opportunity, but it's an incredibly high risk...you think "well, what can I lose?"...well, you can lose $8-10 per share, and if you thought about that on a $30 or $40 stock, you'd never consider it...

Normally I would agree with that..

However, in this case with NVIDIA, they seam to have a history of dropping into the sub 3-$10 range, however they always peak... They are not going anywhere, and if the price is right on the stock, and you dump it next time it peaks in the $25-35 range, you should be in good shape..

NVIDIA, maybe one of the few exceptions out there... but there it is...

[chode_messiah]

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Originally Posted by Teck

Normally I would agree with that..

However, in this case with NVIDIA, they seam to have a history of dropping into the sub 3-$10 range, however they always peak... They are not going anywhere, and if the price is right on the stock, and you dump it next time it peaks in the $25-35 range, you should be in good shape..

NVIDIA, maybe one of the few exceptions out there... but there it is...

Agreed. Nvidia is one of the more stable chip manufacturers out there. Now if you were talking about a more volatile stock like sun or something I'd say don't touch it with a ten foot pole, but as teck said, nvidia always peaks.

[Teck]

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Originally Posted by chode_messiah

Agreed. Nvidia is one of the more stable chip manufacturers out there. Now if you were talking about a more volatile stock like sun or something I'd say don't touch it with a ten foot pole, but as teck said, nvidia always peaks.

I wouldn't necessarily say they are 'Stable' but it seams that they are constantly consistent..

[SonicSpeed]

Ha ha running a ATi FireGL T2 in my laptop

[MajorMalfunction]

Quadro Fx 570M here, basically an opengl compatible 8600M GT. Hopefully not one of the affected models...

Seems like it could just be a concern for those not taking care of their older laptops though.

[Teck]

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Originally Posted by MajorMalfunction

Quadro Fx 570M here, basically an opengl compatible 8600M GT. Hopefully not one of the affected models...

Seems like it could just be a concern for those not taking care of their older laptops though.

I suspect it is the 7200, 7300, and 7400's

[CoffeeShark]

UPDATE

sources say the affected chips are the 8400M and 8600M