[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: pci-e and linux ( and radeon -vs- nvidia ? - IC v. Board RAM

[Bryan J. Smith]

All wafers are damaged today.
Were talking traces of only several atoms.
There are still particles in the clean room.
QC allows many that are partially damaged or test to lowe tolerances to be sold.

In fact, this is also applied elsewhere.
Maxtor sells ATA drives with 1 year and 3-5 year warranties.
The former test to lower tolerances and are sold to retail and white box OEMs.
The later are sold to storage and server OEM/integrators with some limited, general availability - at much higher prices.

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Bryan J. Smith (currently mobile)
b.j.smith at ieee.org

-----Original Message-----
From:  Chris Cox 
Date:  04-12-23 12:13
To:  NTLUG Discussion List 
Subj:  Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: pci-e and linux ( and radeon -vs- nvidia ?  - IC v. Board RAM

Bryan J. Smith wrote:
...
> Correct, at least one of the units was disabled for a reason.
> And enabling an odd number of pipes might actually reduce performance in timing,
> versus having less pipes.
> 
> But the NV43/6600 is not a NV40/6800 with pipes disabled.
> At least not at the PCB/firmware level.
> 

That's my understanding as well.  Some have reported that when they have
tried to enable the extra pipelines on their 6800's that they found
that some were just plain broken (leading some to believe that the
line is created by ones that didn't quite QC right).



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