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Anything from yesterday is probably too old ',INQUIRER School of Journalism" - 1 "791"
Nvidia 790i board pulled by makers
THE NVIDIA IMPLOSION continues, and this time it is not a crusty old product but their top-of-the-line 790i chipset products that are vanishing from manufacturers lineups. They went *poof* from DFI, Foxconn and Gigabyte.
In case you have been living under a rock lately, Nvidia GPUs and chipsets have been crapping out at an amazingly high rate of speed. You can read about it here and here and here and here and here if you are really bored. The executive summary is that Nvidia has a massive batch of bad chips and the first ones to go bad are in laptops, but the problem is by no means confined to those machines.
Now comes word that their high-end desktop mobo, famous for rumored data corruption problems, is being silently killed. The three companies mentioned above have pulled the boards from their product pages without so much as a footnote. The pages for Foxconn and Gigabyte look like this, note the lack of high end NV parts. (Apologies in advance for the formatting).
The Foxconn web page
The Gigabyte page
It is pretty clear, chipsets since the extremely marginal 680i are gone without explanation. Asus still has them listed, and for sale, as do EVGA and XFX, but the rest seem to be gone. Newegg and other sites which we quickly checked back it up, the boards are gone from most vendors' inventories.
This brings into question Nvidia's official statement about its problems being confined to a few laptop parts. We know it is a line of bull, but they persist in saying it anyway, go figure. One maker pulling it silently is an oddity, most of them is a big problem.
In any case, most mobo makers pulling finished and released designs is basically the death knell for a part. If you really want one, grab one now, because they won't be around for much longer.
Just don't expect it to have a long life. µ
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Gigabyte has looked like that since launch, I don't think they ever PUT OUT a 7x0i board, not sure about foxcon. Also to be pointed out is if you look up gigabyte support you will note they indeed DIDN'T put out a 750i, 780i or 790i board.

Note also that EVGA have a bios fix for the video playback corruption issue, its not a chipset fault that isn't fixable.
You'd think that Nvidia, being one of the great champions of Taiwanese know-how, should have more expertise.. and pave the way for future (and smaller) Taiwanese IT-companies... but no.. this is how they do it.

Burn baby, burn!
Freakin' $200 or so a chipset for the 790i. Crap support to the smaller players who often need help with fixes on custom designs - what do nVidia expect.

On top of that we obviously have marketeers having a huge hand on engineering choices at nVidia. The async memory clocking stuff (which really is lots of dividers instead of a few), creates havoc and multiple timing conflicts. They should have foccused on 1:1 clocking, which would have given them even greater prospects of speed with far less overall debugging to do.

X58 and SLI on Intel should be where it's at.

Berger
Have been running the XFX model of this board for months and its been brilliant. Reviews of the boards have been very favourable. Not sure what all the fuss is about. Are you even sure the manufacturers you mention were even making said boards?
Only thing I have to say is this article is completely false as i those companies mentioned have not put out a 790i board yet.

http://www.xfxforce.com/en-us/products/motherboards/7series/790.aspx

http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=132-CK-NF79-A1&family=Motherboard%20Family
Main Framer or Main Farmer, Fields Are Fallow from Here. Its' Gods' Rath or Ultiee's. Take Your Pick.

Note One: 945/6 Chipset Is NOT Ultimate Nor even Vista Capable. If Shop Has Mostly 945 Numbered Mains, Run, Rapidly Out Front Door. Never 
Return There Again. Its' Ultiee' Promise.

790i is amoung Close Ultimate Capable Mains, As it has Integarted Graphics To Aid in Complex Ultimate Task, Yet its NO GO Show Boat.

Wait MY Pretties, Soon Its Ultimate Time or Scrunche Their BALLS. Any Other Company Still Selling Similar To Junk Listed Above Isn't mentioning that NO Operating System Exists Anymore for Oldie Crappie World & Your On Your Own. So Take That ?Super Computer.

Monkees Are So Impaient. Especially Flying Monkees. Here Great Op for HeadMaster, or Even His Excellences' HeadWaiter, Our Own Charlie. 
Whats To Be Ole' Bangies? Will It Be Pop or Poop? Give US ,Lessers, New Numbers. 
Kill Imposter Clowns. Run Home with NEW Gleam. 
Ultiee' Demansed IT.
drashek
If a company has NEVER made a board with X chipset, how can they have PULLED THEM FROM SHELVES...?


ROFL...I rest my case.
http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080801VL203.html

Explains this, I guess.
According to Neowin, Nvidia are pulling out of the chipset business entirely to focus on GPU.


Talk about giving a FREE PASS to NVIDIA!

These LIARS and their fellow CONSPIRATORS (HP, Dell...the mobo companies changing their Web pages) should be EXPOSED WIDELY for the BROKEN CRAP THEY ARE SELLING.

WHY IS THIS STORY GIVEN SUCH LITTLE BROADCAST?
I had to give up on my ASUS Striker II Extreme. After the third RMA and the unit was still not stable I had to conceed that there was a design issue with the motherboard. Now I wonder if that was the 790i chipset. Being that I already had an investment in an SLI config that forced me to the EVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 790i motherboard and my problems have gone away. So I either was lucky and got a working 790i or the EVGA reference board design is keeping the 790i happy.

Not really sure, just happy my system is stable.
We have an ECS laptop here that uses an Nvidia GPU as well. Less than a year after purchase the graphics chip conked out and service personnel says it can't be fixed because the GPU is soldered onto the PCB.

-AND-

My MSI K9N Neo-F board conked out too after only around 7 months of use. The PC would just automatically shut down. I don't know if it's the Nvidia Nforce 550 chipset but after reading all about Nvidia chips being killed in action, I wonder if it's MSI's faulty design or Nvidia's crappy chip packaging. Question is, since it's TSMC who makes Nvidia chips for Nvidia, is Nvidia the only one affected by this? Maybe other TSMC customers are just keeping quiet until the storm has passed.
Or are these just outdated product pages? I think the latter.
I don't understand why the article claims Newegg stopped selling 790i boards.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188025
I don't believe that DFI ever brought their 790i product to market. DFI, while usually not really late with intel chipsets for intel CPUs has always been very slow with nVidia chipsets for intel CPUs. Quite honestly, their 790i design was so far behind that they justifiably cut it. Whether this has anything to do with possible chip deficiencies will never be known, but on the DFI side I'd say no.
you know, Charlie, sometimes bashing a company can be funny, but in your case, it crosses the line. Your obsessed with bashing NV, MS and Apple. Do you have a psychiatric problem or it just makes you horny. Where's Mr. "I'm not biased towards a company"?
You know, it now comes to me, after being addicted to IRC, usenet and the new drug (forums) that all he is doing is being a news troll, not only is he taking good news and putting a bad spin on it to get a rise, but he is just plain making things up now :)

-1 Troll

http://www.edbordenblog.com/2008/08/did-anyone-seriously-believe-nvidia.html

Chsarlie's hate for nVidia is just driving him mad :)
Just how many of your Nvidia articles so far turned out to be incorrect??.. What is your real purpose??
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/Nvidia.html

"What we can do in the next five years is going to blow your mind. In 10 years, we should be bigger than Intel."

Arharharharharhahrhahr!
Charlie, dearest of all my friends, while I know that you have a fetish for bashing nVidia (don't deny it), I'd rather look at the bright flashing red light next to me. It is my bullshit alarm.

The manufacturers you've cherry-picked never came out with those boards, they're just late with designs. They're usually late with designs using other firms' high-end chipsets too. Please, for the sake of the crumbling reputation of this site, read your own hate articles before posting them.

Thanks.
Is this the real reason nV wouldn't show any hardware specs to Linux people?

Because the nV junk is broken and patched over with Windows duct tape?
It's not so much a rumor that nVIDIA chipsets are plagued with data corruption problem, it's a fact.

Years ago when I was on a nVIDIA 460 chipset the Windows event log would constantly report disk errors, and they weren't fake either. Running chkdsk would reveal the errors and the longer you kept the system running, the more errors would appear.

Most people don't realize this simply because not everyone checks their Windows event logs. I check mine immediately after every single boot-up, as it's part of my 1-minute post-boot system check procedure.

Having said that I sold my motherboard two weeks after I had purchased it because nVIDIA simply refused to admit to the problem despite the avalanche of threads on their forum indicating otherwise.

(I also had the E-Mail addresses for certain people working in nVIDIA at that time and had E-Mailed them personally regarding the problem. They kept getting back to me that no-one was able to reproduce the issue. Yeah right.)