Were you replying to me?

Yeah I assumed after seeing the post about the 200+ million dollars in problems that Nvidia 8400 and 8600 

 

Great news.  Hopefully dell will have replacement cards soon and if I send it in that it wont take over a month like it did to originally build it!

Just received an XPS w/8700MGT SLI. Will that be a problem too? Any news on later generation of NVIDIA cards

lol ?

 

i bet they have, just as much as nvidia has admited to it being their fault.

no, not really. i posted this yesterday but it got deleted... some TOS violation yadda yadda

Oh well thats great news :/  haha it took 4 weeks to build the computer, its not even a month old.  and i might need to send it back right before school starts?  oh joy

Oh well thanks anyways.  Has dell made a public statement yet to try and resolve (recall?) the issues caused by the cards?

no, nothing. so far it only affects 84 and 86s.

I guess my post that was attached to your thread got deleted also. This is starting to move around the internet now and I found it on engadget's website. I wonder if this has been the cause of all those people who have been having problems with hot M1330 laptops. There have been several threads on this in the last few weeks. Personally though I have not had any probs with my M1330 or this graphics card.

 

From Dell's point of view, I doubt they will do anything unless this becomes a serious health problem as there was with batteries a few years ago and as such they will only fix/replace laptops that actually fail under warranty. Certainly don't see them doing a full recall as that would cost them a fortune.

curious to what xps you have that they let you customize with the 8700.  

anyone know if that card is compatable with m1530?   they only offer 128mb 8400 and 256mb 8600 cards that i'm aware of

Well it certainly makes sense now.  I have a M1330 and, yup, my video card fried a few months back.  Had to have the MB replaced, but now is the replacement going to eventually fry itself also?  Fun Times ahead.  And to add insult to injury I have an Inspiron with the 8600.  Great!