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To: mas_ who wrote (255174)	8/4/2008 5:41:19 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) of 275872

mas, Nvidia having issues with desktop GPUs as well Interesting article. I wonder what the symptoms are (if they match mine). Here is what Fudzilla says: What it boils down to is the solder material between the chip and the packaging being sub-standard. Issues only occur if the GPU is heated up and cooled down repeatedly, much as it would be in a laptop that's trying to keep a fine balance between fan noise and heat. This results in the solder becoming brittle, and in the end it cracks and this will cause the GPU to fail. I don't see a complete failure, just deterioration, and weird things happening (random dots, artifacts (in XP and Vista), and driver failures in Vista - some recoverable some not). Joe

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