The NVIDIA GPU Litigation final hearing Dec 20th 2010

[Attic]

The lawsuit claimed that NVIDIA sold defective Graphics Processing Units (“GPUs&#8221 and Media and Communications Processors (“MCPs&#8221 that affected the performance of some of the computers in which they were incorporated. NVIDIA denies all allegations of wrongdoing and has asserted many defenses. The settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing.

There is quite an extensive list of affected models. The symptoms appear as a dead screen on affected systems, though the screen is fine it is the discreet vid chipset that has been affected and compromised the system.

Looks to late to sign up as a part of the members of the lawsuit.

Edit: Visiting the FAQ section gives information for who can be included in the lawsuit, it doesn't appear to be closed at this point.

 

[Spikesoldier]

from what ive experienced at the low to mid-low end, nvidia MCPs are garbage, and it does not surprise me how all those no POSTs on all those computers were due to a faulty mcp/mainboard.

 

[MentalIlness]

How can I get in on this ? I want a bazillion gazillion dollars.

 

[StrangerGuy]

from what ive experienced at the low to mid-low end, nvidia MCPs are garbage, and it does not surprise me how all those no POSTs on all those computers were due to a faulty mcp/mainboard.

Their high-end chipsets e.g 680/780/790i are terribad too. Seriously what's the point of SLI when they cannot even make a stable SATA controller, which even after two refreshes and yet the problem still exists. And these chipsets aren't found on your typical <$100 mobos too, they are $300+. No wonder Gigabyte never made any mobos based on them.

 

[Spikesoldier]

a while ago, nvidia sold their chipset division to acer. acer already has ALi's experience and i think this combination of teams is what brought the ion to market.

 

[Will Robinson]

It's all lies to make NVDA look bad.

 

[Absolution75]

I went through 3x EVGA 680i's.... I feel bad for EVGA.

Seriously though, how many bios revisions were there for the reference 680i? I think it was upwards of 20+

Funny thing, after dropping nvidia's MBs from every PC I've built in the last two years, I don't recall having a problem. I'm actually surprised how stable AMD's platforms are considering they are basically based off ATI's old chipsets - which were relatively sold in small quantities.