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Old Apr 13, 2009, 10:33 PM   #51
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Nvidia!, Brilliant Idea!

Now Nvidia can get rid of therir old GPU stock without having to pay for the toxic cleanup and make money at the same time. What an evil Geneus Idea, way to go. Have the public be responsible for the trashing of old GPU's by buying your GPU keychains.
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Old Apr 13, 2009, 11:19 PM   #52
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Haha, too bad if you could make it work, youd have an awesome gpu
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Old Apr 13, 2009, 11:46 PM   #53
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$10.00 is probably the actual cost of making that chip...

awesome idea tho
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Old Apr 13, 2009, 11:58 PM   #54
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i want one.

why cant it be G80 :P
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Old Apr 14, 2009, 12:06 AM   #55
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i want one.

why cant it be G80 :P
They dont have the G80 in surplus
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Old Apr 14, 2009, 12:14 AM   #56
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LOL, I was gonna get one till I saw $8.95 fr shipping
same here ridiculous shipping fees.
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Old Apr 14, 2009, 12:15 AM   #57
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same here ridiculous shipping fees.
For that price you'd think Jen-Hsun Huang would bring it to your door.
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Old Apr 14, 2009, 12:50 AM   #58
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i can ship mine to UK for the same price they are charging US
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Old Apr 14, 2009, 01:02 AM   #59
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For that price you'd think Jen-Hsun Huang would bring it to your door.
for a key chain $2.95 shipping is fair price, $4.95 is ok for me at least but beyond that it's a ripoff. I can ship a whole graphic card for less than $9 within US and I've done Ebay. It's like advertising $1.99 for an item and charges $19.99 shipping for it. It's marketing but it also considered a scam. I buy a few DS game shipping all the way from Hong Kong and they only charges $1.99 shipping and sometime it's even free.

Anyone know what the package look like? Hope they didn't charge a premium for that too.
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Old Apr 14, 2009, 01:04 AM   #60
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for a key chain $2.95 shipping is fair price, $4.95 is ok for me at least but beyond that it's a ripoff. I can ship a whole graphic card for less than $9 within US and I've done Ebay. It's like advertising $1.99 for an item and charges $19.99 shipping for it. It's marketing but it also considered a scam. I buy a few DS game shipping all the way from Hong Kong and they only charges $1.99 shipping and sometime it's even free.

Anyone know what the package look like? Hope they didn't charge a premium for that too.
will tell you when mine show up
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g98? do they mean g92 cuz i cant g98 on the wikipedia comparison dealy.
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Old Apr 14, 2009, 04:02 AM   #62
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First they do rebadging to sell more of the same GPUs, now they are selling you failed GPUs from misproduced products.

Talk about squeezing blood from a rock.

Props to the Nvidia marketing department, keeping the company afloat...
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Nvidia President What the F*CK are we going to do with all these defective g98 chips? This is a major loss!!!
Nvidia Manager There is nothing we can do about it.
Nvidia PR We can make cute little key chains and sell it for 10 bucks.
Nvidia Manager ...
Nvidia President BRILLIANT!!!!!
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that key chain looks sweet... too bad my nerdiness isn't known by anyone then people on here

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Nvidia President--- What the F*CK are we going to do with all these defective g98 chips? This is a major loss!!!
Nvidia Manager--- There is nothing we can do about it.
Nvidia PR--- We can make cute little key chains and sell it for 10 bucks.
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Nvidia President--- BRILLIANT!!!!!



btw what cards are based on the G98?
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Was about to order one and then I saw the shipping price: $8.95!!!

How the hell are they charging over 89% of the product's original price just for shipping?

That's outrageous!
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btw what cards are based on the G98?
GeForce 9300/9300M/9300 GS. Mostly found in notebook graphics.
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$30 for a keychain? No thanks....

I like my opteron 165 IHS keychain yes the CPU still works too
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next thing we will be wearing motherboards as necklace bling lmao
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next thing we will be wearing motherboards as necklace bling lmao
And using ide cables for clothing, and sata cables for belts

Wonder what they'll use failed PCB substrates for.... birthday cards? Shit im giving them too many ideas.
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still remember when i have dead socket478 1.7GHZ celeron , i pick my drill and make a a small hole it was nice but it is not like this memorabilia
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Don't need that bulky crap with my keys, i wounder how long it would look that till the writing rubbed of it.
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Old Apr 14, 2009, 10:05 AM   #72
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I want one just because it says nerd LOL

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Don't need that bulky crap with my keys, i wounder how long it would look that till the writing rubbed of it.
bulky keys can put undue strain on the locking mechanism for Vehicles, make it where you cant turn the key to start etc.
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bulky keys can put undue strain on the locking mechanism for Vehicles, make it where you cant turn the key to start etc.
more scratches too ?.. but i guess that depends what kinda night you had the day before and how many keys you have and how you open your car door with your keys huh.


i only have 8 keys ( just house keys ). and there all separated by key rings so it's easy to know which is which even in the dark lol..

Don't have a car so that be a none issue for me... It would of been better and more cool if they took away all that metal and just had a chip in a see though casing being able see the pins to the fake chip lol... And not some bulky piece of metal which is funny and i will laugh my ass off if i see anyone with one..
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