<blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 0pt;"></blockquote>Jean-Yves beat me to it... the G84 and G86 chip IDs don't map directly to actual product names. E.g. my 8500GT is a G86:<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_Graphics_Processing_Units#GeForce_8_.288xxx.29_series">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_Graphics_Processing_Units#GeForce_8_.288xxx.29_series</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi<br>
<br>
2009/2/3 <<a href="mailto:banksie@paradise.net.nz">banksie@paradise.net.nz</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Don't buy nVidia's 8400 or 8600 series cards. They have a big design defect in<br>
> that their cooling is substandard. See this article for details :-<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/703/1028703/nvidia-g84-g86-bad" target="_blank">http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/703/1028703/nvidia-g84-g86-bad</a><br>
<br>
</div>The newer G98 chipset found on the new 8400gs with 512MB isn't<br>
supposed to be affected.. it is an entirely different series to the<br>
previous generation 8400<br>
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