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Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @03:43AM
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Bill Stubbs writes "NVIDIA has admitted to a killer bug in all GeForce 8800GTX/GTS cards, and will recall all affected cards and replace them. 'An NVIDIA engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous, has just clued us in on the whole deal. This engineer claims that while allegations of poor gaming performance are correct, the reason is not really poor drivers. Brace yourself for the truth: Right after the G80 was taped out, NVIDIA discovered a bug in the vertex shader that causes the GPU to generate slightly incorrect geometry transformation data. The difference was minimal enough to escape attention but it was significant enough to render a scene incorrectly.' The article also links to a secret website which will allow gamers to purchase Nvidia cards at cost."

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Here we go... (Score:3, Informative)

by StarvingSE (875139) writes: on Sunday April 01, 2007 @03:45AM (#18564627)

Happy April 1st everyone.... fp

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0104.htm (Score:2, Informative)

by FMota91 (1050752) writes: on Sunday April 01, 2007 @03:54AM (#18564685)

Nice way for http://www.techarp.com/ [techarp.com] to try and sell us their products...

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For those who actually RTFA, a link to secret page (Score:4, Informative)

by Devistater (593822) * writes: <devistater@NOsPAm.hotmail.com> on Sunday April 01, 2007 @04:17AM (#18564839)

If you RTFA you'll notice they tell you about a secret page you can reach by answering a quiz. Here's the link: http://www.techarp.com/0104.htm [techarp.com] Quote from it: "Unfortunately, there is no secret page where you can buy cheap NVIDIA cards. How we wish it were true though. Graphics cards are so very expensive."

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Re:Whoa (Score:2, Informative)

by alfrin (858861) writes: <alfrin@@@gmail...com> on Sunday April 01, 2007 @04:26AM (#18564875)

What makes you stupid is posting lies on your news site just because it's "April's Fool's day" or something of that sort.

Last time I checked the whole April Fools articles has been a tradition here on Slashdot and most members here are well aware of it and, dare I saw, enjoy trying to sort out the real articles from the fakes. Do you expect the complete truth out of the news anyways? Or on an internet news site?

Chill out

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