Quote from george_tsiros :

you know, i could pwn you really hard right now... but i won't. just keep in mind, that before i say something, i try to think about it. apparently, you don't. you just replied with the first thing that came to your mind, without thinking "now, why would this guy say not to get an 8 series nvidia?". don't do that. it's not a good idea.

Aren't you a bit arrogant? No need to show off mate... :rolleyes: Take CSU1's advice.

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Aren't you a bit arrogant? No need to show off mate... :rolleyes: Take CSU1's advice.

and you don't learn from your mistakes, it seems. no i am not 'arrogant'. you were the arrogant one when without knowledge, came to conclusions about what i said.

tl;dr fu

Well you made me laugh. You doesn't even know what you say. Nevermind...

Quote from george_tsiros :

"now, why would this guy say not to get an 8 series nvidia?". don't do that. it's not a good idea.

Calm down georgina, you'll do yourself an injury.

Don't lecture us on what we can and cannot say, because the following post written by you isn't exactly of high informative quality.

Quote from george_tsiros :

don't get a series 8 nvidia card.

As you can see, there is no reasoning behind this statement, and very little thought has actually gone into this post.

Now on the other hand, the post written by NitroNitrous below was actually informative and provided references as to why he believed them to be faulty. (Even if it was in Spanish)

Quote from NitroNitrous :

I am sorry but I agree with george_tsiros. Why? Because those cards (only for laptops) are faulty. It is very possible that if you buy one, it will stop working in a short time, Nvidia admitted it

http://www.noticias3d.com/noticia.asp?idnoticia=26846

So, Gloria, why don't you stfu, re-calculate your quality of posting, and don't try and threaten the community. What could you possibly do about it?
Mr gracious almighty one.

He was right, and a bunch of posters who flamed him in an insulting tone because they thought they knew better. They didn't.

Yeah the post could of been of better quality, but meh.

MR_B earns an infraction for failing to meet our forum's minimum standard of contribution. Abusing people when you should be apologising to them and conceding they were right.. well, that just sucks.

HP

Dell

The problem lies in die/packaging material set.

I was hoping the for problem with these notebooks to be more trivial like poor air-flow or dodgy heat-sink, but as Dell have said it's much more serious and down to bad choice of materials.

This made me laugh

symptoms during early stages of failure that include:

* No video

So, anyone tell me how on earth these bios updates are using nanorbotics? is quite a leap in customer care...

Correct me if i'm wrong, what use are software updates when key materials in the gpu fail under sudden temperature fluctuations???

The bios update has only one objective; lower power consumption of the gpu and hike up fan time which results in prolonged death.

I wonder if the store warranty is nulled when you update

I know store warranty will have run out after prolonged death

Anyone thinking of selling their notebook to me?

The BIOS updates are frankly, rubbish.

They either boost the fan speed (w00t more noise and slightly shorter battery life), or underclock the GPU (w00t it sucks even more for games than before) or both (w00t²).

ever since software has a lot more control over the hardware, bios updates are not de facto rubbish.

(this one, though, probably IS rubbish)

BIOS updates can cure lots of things, but these ones certainly can't cure shit.

Quote from CSU1 :

I know store warranty will have run out after prolonged death

you can kill it yourself if you really want.

NOONE HEARD ME SAY THIS, GOT IT???

I had another notebook, not this computer with the tower and Nvidia 8600. The notebook had intel integrated and it played fine. I don't know why you guys give it such a bad rating, but I used to get 40-50fps mabey up to 100 sometimes.

Quote from CSU1 :

Dell


XPS M1530 A09

You got me scared there for an moment. But if I checked correctly, I have a XPS M1530 A00. So

I read that it's only the 8600 cards. The problem is the constant heating and cooling, causing a part to fail. The rate of failure is far more common in notebooks because of the constant on and off, so they don't last as long as the desktop versions, which aren't subjected to this nearly as often. I have a 8600GT factory overclocked plus I OC'd it even more, about a year, and never had a problem, at times it hit nearly 90C, tough cards I guess, when they work.

I have HP laptop with NVidia 8400M GS, and it does 100-120 FPS at 1280x800 without AA and 16xAF, and 30-40 fps with 8xAA and 16xAF.

I use Acer with nvidia 9300M and lfs runs great with it.

regards

Berni

i play lfs on my laptop at fps +130
soo i play it in high grafik
noo lag

Quote from Jakg :

He was right, and a bunch of posters who flamed him in an insulting tone because they thought they knew better. They didn't.

Yeah the post could of been of better quality, but meh.

"could of"?

Quote from Allan :

"could of"?

Grats, this is almost a better first post than "gangstadangsta".

Quote from zeugnimod :

Grats, this is almost a better first post than "gangstadangsta".

And it's his first post since 2003! Allan, you deserve an award!

Quote from hrtburnout :

And it's his first post since 2003! Allan, you deserve an award!

But seriously, "could of"?

Quote from Allan :

But seriously, "could of"?

Yeah, kids these days. It's "could have".

Quote from hrtburnout :

Yeah, kids these days. It's "could have".

He does it all the time.

Quote from zeugnimod :

Grats, this is almost a better first post than "gangstadangsta".

:ices_rofl vvvvvv