False alarm? – There are no defective HD 2600 and 2400 in sell
Reports that the defective chip Radeon got one of the largest producers of graphics cards, have proved to be incorrect. According to a recent article published by DigiTimes service, the company making the cards based on processors that AMD Radeon were to blame for admission to the sale of one thousand units of defective HD 2600 and HD 2400. Author who writes for DigiTimes even claimed that “the information from unofficial sources that one of the major manufacturers have already withdrawn from the market of 20-30 one thousand cards.”
In light of these revelations is so interesting that Asustek, MSI and Gigabyte, the company that is listed in the article, as affected by the scourge of cards with faulty BIOS-s, deny malfunction occurs, said.
Product managerzy technicians and asked about delivery of damaged parts of the Radeon had a pretty trouble finding meaningful comment to the situation.
Proszący of anonymity representatives ASUS-a claim that did not receive phones from journalists seeking information about the defective cards, and that all copies of the magazines operate without objection.
A Taiwanese engineer involved in akceleratorami graphics conceded in an interview that: “The company has ordered a day at Acer AMD processors are deprived of a series of UVD module. This was a one-time request, and these chips got to a certain model of computers Acera. All chips delivered to other OEM and ODM distributors have UVD on the spot. ” UVD, or Unified Video Decoder, is used to decode video hardware and is one of the elements of processor Radeon HD 2600 and HD 2400. According to the same engineer, is betting Acera could be the source of rumors about the allegedly defective cards.
Acer, which is the fourth largest producer of branded computers, sometimes ordered from its suppliers a single series of specially modified components. Since the processors in question have been deprived of UVD at the specific request, it is difficult to identify them as corrupt. Acera OEM partners are among other companies ECS and Asustek.
Representatives of MSI and Gigabyte have reported for the fact that their companies do not touch the chips bereft of UVD, or equipped with a defective BIOS-y. What’s more, internal test papers series HD 2000 does not reveal any problems with UVD module.
Gigabyte company spokesman asked to comment by DailyTech service has made the following experience: “We can confirm that all the cards AMD Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 are now on their way to distributors are fully operational module UVD. Some of them are equipped with a processor earlier revision A13, will require the installation of drivers which will be released over August. All other Radeony HD 2400 and 2600 will be hardware dekodowały movies already on the current drivers. ”
A civil engineer working in factories AMD also proszący of anonymity, says that in one of a series of processors that are currently in production stage there is no problem with an arrangement of UVD. What’s more, does not he ever heard that the defective unit gone beyond the factory gates. In his view, “any reports of withdrawal from the retail channel defective card HD 2400 and 2600 are false.”
