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Is the 8800M GTX or more specially the M1730 Sli variant effected by these problems?
Recently I had to get my GPU's replaced. There was a BOD with a "Parity Error". the cards wouldn't work, had to be replaced. Temps before hand were normal enough, maybe up to 87C on very heavy Crysis gaming.
My 8600gt in fl90 died on me last week, no video signals... after 1 year and half of use. And, for all of you who still thinks that nvidia crap 9600gt is good...
The 8600m GT is well known to be affected by this issue ... the 9600m GT for the moment seems to be ok (or at the very least is supposed to be the less likely to fail).
I don't deny that Nvidia is just toying with everyone while taking their money in the process (just look at their new mobile chips lineup: smaller manuf. process and simply higher clock frequencies on chips that remain for the most part same).
I also want to move from Nvidia in the future (for now though, the laptop I bought was the best performance for money in my opinion and has at the very least 9600m GT ... which seems to be working nicely and the temps are nice and cool).
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
