Not quite sure I'd put too much of my own "personal supercomputer fund" in this yet. Over the last few months I and four colleagues wound up with shiny new Dell laptops courtesy of Nvidia graphics cards failing on $3.5-4.5K M90 laptops still under warranty.

Nvidia, to my knowledge, has never acknowledged fault. Not a good sign.

So at least for me, it's wait and see time. Or maybe a baby step with dual quad-core Xeons and lots of RAM.

Agreed. NVIDIA doesn't play clean when they're losing. The Fermi launch will be a paper launch, and all the hype is to reduce ATI's DX11 monopoly until the hard launch, that is likely somewhere in 1Q-2Q 2010. A deserved score for ATI.

I wish Charlie was here to give his input on it for us INQ followers. Oh well, off I go to visit S|A. :)

Nvidia Failed this subject so well it is used in the current syllabus.

I agree with Vinster.

Will they give a 3 year "replacement no quibble" warranty for their Tesla cards?

Thats what a server farm manager wuould want if he was going to throww 3 of these in a 2S box and put racks of them in room.

You would want some decent cooling per box or the cards would go critical.

Especially when the current prototype GT300 card has the vents blanked off ... lol !!

where is the story on how the fermi card they showed recently was nothing but a very badly executed mock-up?
it should be done by now...

Bump gate, you know when NV had a bad manufacturing issue that pissed off a lot of OEMs and anyone who got stuck with one of the bad cards.

It wasn't so much they had an issue, but that they knew it, denied it, and kept selling them to everyone. That's where they lost trust from investors that pay attention. I have an NV card right now, but my next card (Christmas) will be ATI just because of NV's BS business practices.

It's amazing that when nvidia is mentioned on forums how all these angry nitwits start screaming that their nvidia card exploded after two weeks, blah, blah blah. My EVGA cards have been fine and my friends as well. Since Nvidia still outsells the competition almost two to one, dominates the professional market and has the awesome Fermi chip coming soon, methinks they protest a bit too much.

bob:

that's jolly nice for you. glad your 8800gts is still purring; my last three nvidia gpus all choked and spluttered their way to the great rig in the sky.
so well done for defending a company that's done me out of two laptop's and one desktop gpu due to defective die. i would, in a keeganesque manner, love nvidia to die (like mine), but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. i can only hope they start losing money like i did (and if you think this ever so slightly unhinged rant is, well, unhinged, then you ain't seen nothing yet. i'm chock full of hate and bile. shit, you would be with this haircut (thanks bill).

ruthlessness in business is one thing, but ripping people off that can't afford it is tantamount to theft.

by the way bob, what the flying duck is suggesting that nvidia's faulty products are due to their consumers '(im)proper assembly procedure(s)' all about?

Not an Nvidia fanboi (I alternate as they leapfrog), I thought I'd mention my 8800GTS bought when it came out years ago is still purring happily. Factory OC'ed, driving my 37" @1080p, gaming almost every night.

I never had a failure from either of these guys, you may want to check proper assembly procedures.

Btw, not sure why they would want to talk to you.

Fermi calculations are often not accurate.

Astrochicken & Schrödinger's cat
cogito, ergo suum reductio ad ridiculum, tamen quisnam est duco?

Shticks that build more shticks that build more shticks...

We all gonna fries?

NVidia hasn't made a reliable video chipset since the days of the 5xxx hairdryer series many years ago. Why on earth would any business take such chances on this company under the leadership of Jen Hsun? They are telling businesses to run clusters of their cards now as an alternative to tried and true server CPUs. Do they think we are crazy and stupid?

NVidia: prove you can build a video chipset that won't overheat and die within a year and prove the days of covering up your shoddy hardware mistakes are over. Then we can talk.