And another article:
Nvidia recommends not buying its defective chips
And they call this bumpgate
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Bumpgate Told ya so
IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia finally has a solution to the defective chips fiasco that it keeps covering up. The short story according to documents seen by VR-Zone is to not buy them, just buy the newer ones.
No, really, we're not kidding. To quote some of the latest memo, ".....NVIDIA strongly recommends that customers transition to this latest revision of the NB8E-SET GPUs as soon as possible. These latest revision units utilize "Hitachi" underfill packaging material that improves product quality and enhances operating life by improved thermal cycling reliability." We know what you are thinking, there is no problem with the chips, they said so. Many times. With a straight face.
Then again, we did say we believed otherwise. And then Nvidia denied it. And so we printed copies of the technical docs on the problem that we saw, note the part about Hitachi underfill and the date. And once again Nvidia denied it. We publicly mocked them, and so Nvidia spun harder. Whee, look! The shreds of the company's credibility are twitching!
Quite honestly, I think this is really all about their insurance company not wanting to pay up. It is, afterall, solely based on claims made by them, and no one else, released to the media, and then made public.
nVidia gave them all of the information they requested, and now, the insurance company, National Union puts out a statement saying nVidia “flooded National Union with technical data”, and now they want different information. Information nVidia doesn’t have access to, and so they can’t give it to them.
They have been maneuvering and positioning themselves into a position of being able to get a court to exempt them from any liability.
Which is, exactly, what they’ve done.
“So National Union doesn’t want to pay up. It wants the court to declare it has no duty to indemnify Nvidia because Nvidia has breached the terms of the agreement.”
This isn’t about chips, it’s about money. Typical of insurance companies, they want their premiums, but they sure as heck don’t want to pay out on policies.
I live by the old Jamaican saying...”stick to da evil wot you know best, mon”. I’ve had problems with ATI, and I’ve not had any problems with nVidia. For me, the decision is clear.
Please do note that nVidia has stepped up and replaced all of the alleged cards, it’s money that the OEM’s want for lost business, labor, and suffered reputation, that’s in question now.