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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."
So what? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Whoa (Score:2, Interesting)
No, but not understanding it's a joke does make you stupid. Sorry.
I know, something untrue on the internet - frankly, I'm shocked.
Re:Mod me insightful for no particular reason (Score:2, Interesting)
God, I wish this were true... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Actually quite lame (Score:3, Interesting)
It is quite believable now in the UK, that local councils would spend millions of pounds in order to emply inspectors to wander around home owners gardens checking to see if they had a barbecue in use without a permit.