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    Quote Originally Posted by Snoopy View Post
    try actually READING my statement and the article:


    Warhammer's statement:
    "And they just recalled all of them do (it's "due" not "do") to bad capacitors."

    1) They didn't recall ALL of them.
    2) It wasn't bad caps.

    So he was wrong about one part and exaggerating about the other part.

    My statement:
    "Go ahead and cite me a REPUTABLE report that shows that the production model released today has bad caps AND that they were recalled.

    From the aritcle:
    "These GeForce 8800 GTX boards were shipped to our Add-In-Card partners

    We believe we will still be able to hit our hard launch this week (Nov 8th) with the new GeForce 8800 GTX boards.
    ."

    The grammar I'm not really paying attention to, but I agree there.

    I also agree that they aren't recalling all of them.


    Quote Originally Posted by vr-zone.com
    We have received news that all the 8800GTX cards out in the channel are being recalled due to manufacturing defect. We heard it is probably due to a resistor controlling 2D/3D switching and that leads to 3D corruption. However, the defect doesn't affect the 8800GTS cards. This issue probably could delay the launch, if not, there could be no availability of 8800GTX cards at launch but just GTS.
    Update #1 : No affect on launch date as yet
    Update #2 : NVIDIA will handle the necessary hardware changes (changing of resistors)
    Update #3 : Only some 8800GTX cards are affected due to wrong resistor value by a contract manufacturer but to be safe, all the card makers are recalling their cards
    Update #4 : For those cards that are already shipped out, card makers will send the correct resistors to the distributors and they will be handling the soldering work themselves. There should be no delay or minor delay in the sale of the 8800GTX cards.
    Update #5 : We heard that the resistor has something to do with memory voltage
    Update #6 : The affected resistor is located at R520. The correct resistance should be 25.5K ohms.


    Those cards are still the production model that was released.

    But I am going to agree to disagree.



    TO RECAP:

    NO, not ALL cards were recalled. The add-in card partners are still considered part of the production model.

    I'm not worried about the grammar, I haven't had more than 7 hours of sleep one day this week, and could care less.

    Warhammer also corrected his statement:

    Quote Originally Posted by WarhammerTX
    My bad it was resistors here ya go http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4253
    So, I'm not trying to call you an idiot, cause a ruckus, or sound like an @$$, I'm just going off of the facts in the articles and this thread.
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