nVidia 600 Series GPU Owners

[MiRai]

No idea how real this recall is at the moment but... just figured I would throw this out there. If it turns out to be BS then this thread will be deleted.

http://videocardz.com/33185/nvidia-t...0-series-cards
http://tech.pnosker.com/2012/05/21/n...r-video-cards/
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2247295
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphic...ics_Cards.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...graphics-cards


Apparently putting these new nVidia cards under "heavy load" leads to degradation of performance over time. Multiboxing would be one thing that definitely puts these cards under heavy load.

I'll try to keep this thread up-to-date as much as I can.

UPDATE: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphic...gradation.html

Nvidia Corp. on Monday denied plans to recall GeForce GTX products based on the GK104 graphics processing units due to rumoured eventual performance degradation. The company claims that the rumours are incorrect and the graphics products work fine.

"There is no truth to this," said Bryan Del Rizzo, a spokesman for Nvidia.


The official for the company declined to provide any further details or colour to the information published earlier on Monday. According to a media report, Nvidia GK104 "chips may be suffering from serious performance degradation over long periods of heavy load". The exact effects of performance degradation were not indicated: it is unclear whether certain stream processors stop working, or the chips drop clock-speed. As a result, the company was rumored to initiate recall process for the GK104-based products.


Before making it to the market, all the new GPUs are vigorously tested in various applications; they also pass Microsoft HCL tests, which not only stress graphics chips, but take hours to complete. Therefore, chances that chips may degrade in performance over time are pretty low.

Looks like it's false. I'll leave this thread here for today in case someone comes running in here with an older link... Hopefully they'll see this thread first.