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Are Nvidia's 8600GT chipsets defective?

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Recently Tom's Hardware ran an article implying the 8600GT might be defective, but they did not mention anything specific. Concidering Nvidia's ongoing problems with the 8600M chipsets in notebooks I'm wondering whether there might be some truth to the rumor.

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I have no proof per say, but I have sold a few and I run a over clocked version of the 8600gt and my son has been using one on a gaming machine for over 8 months now. No problems at all (Other than not playing CRYSIS but we have wanted to)

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Reply to martyjs

ya the shader model is the issue i own a nvidia 8600gt graphic card the thing is it has the shader model 3.0 but not 4.0 as specified

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..............dead thread? who cares about 8600GT's anyway :lol: old tech...

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mncl wrote :

ya the shader model is the issue i own a nvidia 8600gt graphic card the thing is it has the shader model 3.0 but not 4.0 as specified

WTF are you talking about? Where did you get that?

The issue was the bump material composition, not the shader model support. :pfff:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquire [...] -defective
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inqu [...] tive-chips
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inqu [...] /nv-should

Further confirmed with nV's own recommendation recently;

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquire [...] tive-chips

Now show me this shader issue. :heink:

Message edited by TheGreatGrapeApe on 12-29-2008 at 11:00:38 AM

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wtf do u have any ida of the shader model .the thing specified is some wat resonable but there is an internetwork btwn the gpu the shader model :non:

Reply to mncl

Dude whatever you're TRYING to say makes no sense, and you still haven't posted some evidence of this.

And yes I have an idea of the shader model... do you?

I doubt it based on your writing.

Post a link to this issue you speak of, because otherwise you're simply another confused n00b regurgitating someone else's FUD.

Message edited by TheGreatGrapeApe on 12-29-2008 at 08:20:38 PM

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