Err what?

[Sxotty]

Dude, not to be a doubter but how would knocking them off the shelf kill them all? I mean maybe he accidentally forgot to tell them he knocked them off the shelf, microwaved them, threw them in a bucket of water, and stomped on them...
But seriously if they were in a box it is unusual that they would break that easy, I mean I have dropped cards out of a box and no harm done, I dropped my old IBM 75gxp drive 4 feet onto a cinder block and it didn't damage it... although I about had a heart attack (don't put a drive on top of a full tower case on a desk and then lean the case over to pull a video card out lol ).

 

[PaulS]

I dropped my old IBM 75gxp drive 4 feet onto a cinder block and it didn't damage it... although I about had a heart attack (don't put a drive on top of a full tower case on a desk and then lean the case over to pull a video card out lol ).

Heh, i've done that too. Didn't damage the hard disk either, which is strange given their normally volatile nature.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Dude, not to be a doubter but how would knocking them off the shelf kill them all? I mean maybe he accidentally forgot to tell them he knocked them off the shelf, microwaved them, threw them in a bucket of water, and stomped on them...

Graphics cards arn't generally designed to take a shock loading, so it's no surprise delicate, compex electronics were damaged by being knocked off a shelf. I wouldn't be surpised if the "shelf" was 15 feet up in a warehouse, and the "knocking" was done with a fork lift.

But seriously if they were in a box it is unusual that they would break that easy, I mean I have dropped cards out of a box and no harm done, I dropped my old IBM 75gxp drive 4 feet onto a cinder block and it didn't damage it... although I about had a heart attack (don't put a drive on top of a full tower case on a desk and then lean the case over to pull a video card out lol ).

If you talk to people that deal in large numbers of hard drives, they'll tell you that the companies that ship drives with specific procedures for "good handling" have far fewer failures and returns than those that just fling drives into boxes.

 

[Sxotty]

BZB good point I did not think about a forklift and 15 foot shelf, I thought about a 3 foot shelf, I can definitely see it happening the way you imply as a possibility.

 

[beyondhelp]

Graphics cards arn't generally designed to take a shock loading, so it's no surprise delicate, compex electronics were damaged by being knocked off a shelf. I wouldn't be surpised if the "shelf" was 15 feet up in a warehouse, and the "knocking" was done with a fork lift.

I don't believe it either. A Video card in a retail Box, which is what it would be at Best buy, would be able to take a pretty good shock. Other than the fan, there is no mechanical parts to shock and break. This is a bullshit story.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

You never know what happened in transit. I've had a 5 grand A0 plotter arrive strapped to a pallet and with a neat hole running all the way through it where a fork lift truck has punched through. Just a few months back, I had a PSU arrive in a sealed, undamaged box to find that the PSU inside had been hit so hard with a sharp edge that the case had a big crease across it and the whole thing was deformed.

Best buy may have told the customer "oh, they got knocked off a shelf", but it was probably something a lot more dramatic to damage a whole delivery of cards. They could have been bouncing around the back of a truck for all we know.

 

[hoom]

Didn't damage the hard disk either, which is strange given their normally volatile nature.

Can't say I've ever heard of a HDD evaporating at room temperature myself...

 

[PaulS]

Didn't damage the hard disk either, which is strange given their normally volatile nature.

Can't say I've ever heard of a HDD evaporating at room temperature myself...

Didn't quite mean it like that

 

[R300King!]

Yeah, I had a 3D video card blow a transaxel..and was dragging behind a truck for 5 miles. I popped it in my rig and can only get 2D graphics now ..oh and volumetric smoke is broke too.

 

[Ruroni]

What I find most disturbing is that websites I used to concider reliable (such as wap2search and some other ones I visited) are actually qouting this and posting up as news...

This is the type of material that makes it on the Conan O'Brien or Jay Leno show...

LOL

 

[Quitch]

Yeah, I had a 3D video card blow a transaxel..and was dragging behind a truck for 5 miles. I popped it in my rig and can only get 2D graphics now ..oh and volumetric smoke is broke too.

You'll need to upgrade your BIOS.

 

[Nappe1]

It's really interesting to see how even the most non-technical jobs are influenced by the internet nowadays. Just a few years back, he would have been the village's idiot, but nowadays he is the forums' idiot. Maybe we need one at B3D. Anyone care to fill that open spot?

We already have a few people that fill that spot *cough* and we dont need any more

THEY WILL DELIVER!

okay, let's try something shorter: XBA! can you say it? spell it with me: X-B-A and GLAZE3D (G-L-A-Z-E-3-D)

and oh oh now I remember... AVALANCHE3D! can you say it? it's simple. try it yourself: A-V-A-L-A-N-C-H-E-3-D

if ya didn't understood yet, I'll repeat it few more times:

THEY WILL DELIVER! THEY WILL DELIVER!

spell it with me: T-H-E-Y W-I-L-L D-E-L-I-V-E-R!

can you say it?? it's: THEY WILL DELIVER!


- Nappe1 alias Few People.

 

[Mintmaster]

The shock from a 15 foot fall or even a 4 foot fall can dislocate the heatsink. I don't think the cards are that well held in the box, nor is there any cushioning. It has some mass to it, and it's just glued down rather than clipped down (although it seems unlikely that you could dislocate it without removing it entirely). Given how much heat R300 produces, this can be quite bad. It might even work for a while and then fry. I was just transporting my computer to and from a lan party once without dropping it, and when I got home the CPU temperature went up by 15-20 C. I still think that story is unlikely, but don't write it off entirely.

Anyway, back to this topic, you gotta give credit to this guy for fooling so many people around the net. Hell, he may be laughing at everyone else just as hard as we at B3D are laughing at him. In another thread in this forum:

Since it is discussed a lot over the Net It gives Nvidia again very negative attention................

For once, the negative attention isn't their fault (well, not directly).

 

[Bolloxoid]

What I find most disturbing is that websites I used to concider reliable (such as wap2search and some other ones I visited) are actually qouting this and posting up as news...

Warp2search, the trashcan of internet news, reliable? They are good at posting links to driver updates, anything else they report they manage to get embarrassingly wrong every time. You don't often see such a clueless bunch of people.

 

[Grall]

The shock from a 15 foot fall or even a 4 foot fall can dislocate the heatsink.

I seriously doubt that. For starters, a 15-foot fall might mush up the graphics card box a bit, but unless some protrusion on the ground strikes the card itself it should be OK.

If heatsinks dislocate from a 4-foot fall, I doubt more than 50% of units would reach their customers in working order. You should know how boxes get knocked around in transport, especially when being handled in terminals and such.

Either the sinks are held in place with pins (which is the case with every GPU I've seen in recent years), in which case they're not going to come off before some other stuff flies off the card as well, or else - in the case of super budget stuff - they're glued in-place, and that means the GPU will most likely come off before the heatink does. Cyano acrylates or epoxies has a hell of a grip after all. You need to freeze the stuff to remove it, and even then its not certain to work.

I don't think the cards are that well held in the box

Well certainly well ENOUGH. Poor boxing of hardware would just lead to excessive RMAing for the manufacturer.

Anyway, back to this topic, you gotta give credit to this guy for fooling so many people around the net. Hell, he may be laughing at everyone else just as hard as we at B3D are laughing at him.

Methinks you give this raving loon too much credit!


*G*

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

It's really interesting to see how even the most non-technical jobs are influenced by the internet nowadays. Just a few years back, he would have been the village's idiot, but nowadays he is the forums' idiot. Maybe we need one at B3D. Anyone care to fill that open spot?

You mean I'm not good enough?

 

[Ailuros]

It's really interesting to see how even the most non-technical jobs are influenced by the internet nowadays. Just a few years back, he would have been the village's idiot, but nowadays he is the forums' idiot. Maybe we need one at B3D. Anyone care to fill that open spot?

You mean I'm not good enough?

Errr who are you again?