Laptop nVIDIA GeForce 8 Series Graphic Cards = Defective

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Laptop nVIDIA GeForce 8 Series Graphic Cards = Defective

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If you have a laptop / notebook that uses a GeForce 8 series graphic card, you might want to take concern, as nVIDIA announced earlier last month that they are all potentially defective. :o More details in this Engadget article below:

Figuring out which NVIDIA GPUs are defective -- it's a lot

Essentially, all every GeForce Geforce 8600M and 8400M chips are affected, so if you have a laptop with these cards, you may want to check with your laptop vendor for a fix. Engadget is also reporting that some GeForce 7 and 6 series laptop chips may also be affected. Dell and HP have already released fixes for affected models.

With this recent announcement, as well as increased competition from ATI/AMD's new HD4000 series graphics cards, nVIDIA's stock took a large beating. :o
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