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Originally Posted by DarKStar

....or you can go at the source and contact some distributors or stores who are dealing with a ridiculous amount of returns that never before they experienced, and I can confirm this myself because I know better to rely strictly on enquirer articles, but from what I was told, it's not affecting just NVIDIA, but there is an increasing return rate for motherboards, hard drives and graphic cards - As to NVIDIA, it's already crying about a 5% decrease in its profits and stocks, and it seems they haven't learned from their past mistakes - I think they've gotten away easy for the disabled video acceleration on 6 series (if memory serves), leaving current customers in the dark, since that was an ADVERTIZED feature of the card - they did fix this on future card revisions. Now to be honest, I'd rather pay $100 more on my card than to deal with a failing card and having to RMA it 4 times (example) like some people have reported doing - This is the price for cost cutting, at the expense of the customer. NVIDIA is going to lose big on this, because already people have lost faith and moving to the other side - thank goodness there is competition to keep the PC alive. People saying this will shut NVIDIA's doors is over doing it, it might nt, but it will put a major dent in their already slippery reputation - it would be a shame really - it will harm not only NVIDIA but their board partners - and what's to say that some of their partners will stop using NVIDIA chipsets and use AMD/ATI exclusively :)

i agree. this is the first time in my history with pcs that i have had a 'defective' part. i did my first rma ever, and in return i got my second defective part =( (my 680i motherboard).

i also remember reading an article about them encouraging partners to use cheaper pcbs and essentially cut corners. (on some of the cards in question right now)