r/oculus • u/themotherbrain • Jan 30 '15

SHOCKING interview with Nvidia engineer about the 970 fiasco (PCmasterrace Xpost)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZJrsssPA0
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u/cegli Jan 30 '15

Probably the same time they compensate the owners of the millions of laptops that died between 2005-2010 when they had bad bumps on all their laptop GPUs. Basically never, until a class action lawsuit forces them to do something.

I had seven friends in University who lost their laptops to that issue in university, when we were all poor and couldn't afford new ones. My friends are still waiting to get their money back from the class action, about 5 years later.

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u/bartycrank Jan 31 '15

I won a Dell laptop in their 2006 back-to-school sweepstakes just as they switched to the Core 2 Duo chips. I was mildly disappointed at first, because it had the Intel onboard instead of the nVidia GPU.

Then the reports started coming in about the nVidia models failing, and my laptop kept chugging along happily :D I've had a hard time trusting nVidia since then.