Law Firm currently investigating Nvidia for potential Class Action.

[Lewellyn]

Posted yesterday. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/303502-law-firm-currently-investigating-nvidia-for-potential-class-action/

[Opcode]

Called it.

 

[Lewellyn]

Called it.

 

I remember that. Fun times.

[zappian]

Called it.

 

I also said something to that effect on the early 970 threads.

[NeverNude]

Only the lawfirm is going to win in this.  The judge will settle on a total number, the law firm takes its (massive) cut and then all the people get $5. 

 

This is pretty much what will happen. The sharks will take up to 80% and the actual owners might get a  $5 Newegg coupon, etc.

 

 

That said I love my 970 and I don't plan to get anything else in the foreseeable future and I don't need Nvidia's money, or a Newegg coupon.

[zappian]

Or, you fancy yourself Nvidia's publicist. I can't tell which.

 

 

I love your comment.

[Pomfinator]

Class action lawsuits benefit only the lawyers, don't even bother, go contact Nvidia they'll take care of you better than these idiots can.

[geforceftw]

I wonder where this will go. Nvidia has probably billions to spend on lawyers. I hope they at least have competant judge who understands what a graphics card is.

[meritmaster]

Nvidia is already helping angry customers with their 970's

 

A lawsuit is uncalled for.

 

But 'Murica, the land where people sue over stupid things cuz they can.

Nvidia hasn't helped me out at all, but just held me off. A lawsuit is called for. In "murica" we can sue anyone, but that doesn't mean you will win. We have to right to accuse people of anything, even if it's a lie, or wrong. 

 

jebus christ.. only in in america... seriously why do they feel the need to sue everyone for everything.. THEYVE SAID YOU CAN HAVE YOUR MONEY BACK.. PROBLEM SOLVED..

 

seriously why bother with a class action law suit.. "yay let sue a company an make them pay millions but all you'll get is about 50p but its a win either way!!!"

Why must you fit this into hating American, sounds like you have a problem, but let's put that aside for now.  They can say i can have my money back, but where is it? It's not in my bank account, so that's bullshit. We can sue people, but it isn't guaranteed to win, everyone has a fair trial. 

[chopdok]

Was to be expected. nVidia did mislabel their product. Their specs said 4GB at the same specified bandwith of 224 GB/s(peak). These specs are uncorrect, even if they have very little to no effect on performance. That is against the law. Whether and how much compensation people should get is a matter of debate. But I do not believe nVidia should be let to get away with it without a big-ass fine. Break a law, pay a fine. So that next time, they will double-check their marketing.

[Ertman]

Damn ambulance chasers.

they are likely just one of those firms fighting for their right to profit off of nvidias mistakes at the expense of the 'wronged' consumer.

[Ertman]

Nvidia hasn't helped me out at all, but just held me off. A lawsuit is called for. In "murica" we can sue anyone, but that doesn't mean you will win. We have to right to accuse people of anything, even if it's a lie, or wrong.

Why must you fit this into hating American, sounds like you have a problem, but let's put that aside for now. They can say i can have my money back, but where is it? It's not in my bank account, so that's bullshit. We can sue people, but it isn't guaranteed to win, everyone has a fair trial.

You do realize you are pointing out problems and negative parts of the American system. These aren't virtues and since when have trials ever been fair?

[Wardojack]

This should be interesting.

[SkulD]

 

People are overlooking that this happens anyway and with greater severity when a game ends up using shared ram from going beyond the Vram limit. The gtx 780s only have 3 Gb vram which is even less than the 970s main allocation of 3.5 Gb.

 

Its easy enough to keep your vram usage within your GPUs limits by reducing AA / disabling DSR. If youre running at 1440p+, you dont need as much AA anyway.

 

What if you game only needs 3.9 Gb, then you`ll have stuttering for no good reason, and it really pains me to see so many fanboys defending Nvidia.

 

Another thing that EVERYONE forgets, i don`t know why i guess it just slips out of their minds is that SLI 970 should have more tan enough horse power to properly utilize their "4Gb Vram", but guess what? you can't use that extra power because the performance goes to shit.

 

I do have 2 970s i can`t return them because BS laws in my country and general ignorance of the retailers themselves. I am FORCED to Split these cards, since having them on SLI is a waste of time.

 

Will wait for the next AMD card and buy one of those instead.

 

 

Before anyone uses the fanboy card on me i have:

 

2 r9 280x

1 gtx 760

1 gtx 780

2 gtx 970

1 hd7970

 

So yeah. pretty disapointed with the GTX 970. because I have experienced stuttering that a single 280x never had on a 2560x1080p monitor, and donpt you dare tell me its because of my procesor, because the only thing thats changed is the graphics card, same games, same system, same settings, diferent graphics cards (crossfire 280x and SLI gtx970)

[Dabombinable]

In other words the parasites get money, and the consumer ends up with jack shit. Typical.

[slightlyjaded]

Only one group of people ever make significant money if a class action law suit is won.  The lawyers. Everyone else gets screwed.

[Badger906]

Nvidia hasn't helped me out at all, but just held me off. A lawsuit is called for. In "murica" we can sue anyone, but that doesn't mean you will win. We have to right to accuse people of anything, even if it's a lie, or wrong.

Why must you fit this into hating American, sounds like you have a problem, but let's put that aside for now. They can say i can have my money back, but where is it? It's not in my bank account, so that's bullshit. We can sue people, but it isn't guaranteed to win, everyone has a fair trial.

I don't hate Americans.. I'm in a relationship with one!! even she thinks the "let's sue everyone for everything" culture they've adopted is stupid.

class action law suits don't change anything. nvidia are already fully aware the messed up, making them pay 50c to a few million people isn't going to undo the mistake.

[Redut]

Nvidia is already helping angry customers with their 970's

 

A lawsuit is uncalled for.

 

But 'Murica, the land where people sue over stupid things cuz they can.

Americans are also the ones who buy the 970s just because "ITS NVIDIAAA" and "ITS MURICAN PRIDE".

Also, stop licking NVIDIA's ass. If a company lies to you about what you buy, than, the government must action. The other retarded NVIDIA fanboys must action too, right?

[Eisenbart]

Well the real problem here is that nvidia used false advertising... Wether or not the card is actually performing really well does not matter in this case.

One completly stupid example:

If you buy something for 3$ and give me 5$ you should get 2$ back, but i will only give you 1,99$.

Soo 1,99 is nearly 2$ so no problem right? Nope in law that would be stealing...

Its just sad that the lawfirm will take most of the money. This will not help anyone except the lawyers...

[Redut]

You're wrong lol. There are people all over the world who prefer Nvidia GPUs, be it due to an AMD stigma or otherwise.

 

And I'm not a fanboy licking Nvidia's ass. They did fuck up and I'm not denying it. They know pulling tricks and making mistakes does them no good, and they have already taken a toll due to this event.

 

Suing them won't bring about anything good and they don't need to be sued to know not to fuck up again.

Yes, I know, but mostly americans are all over Nvidia(as apple products).

They didn't. They surely will do it again. Even AMD will do something like that. It's all about the money. Not giving better performances to the customer.

[MaxBunny]

For all ya'lls wondering whether this will hold up in court, just remember that America is the country that successfully sued Red Bull because it didn't actually give you wings. Mislabeling a product, AND THEN relabeling it differently later, is a lost cause. The only question is how much they're going to be reimbursing those people. :lol:

 

#TeamWhicheverOneIsCheapestOnMyNextPurchase  #PopcornMuncher  #DisGunnaBeGood

[meritmaster]

You do realize you are pointing out problems and negative parts of the American system. These aren't virtues and since when have trials ever been fair?

Qhat? You don't even live in America. The majority of trials are fair. What are some examples, or experiences you've had?   What are the flaws? 

[Redut]

Wow you you're quick to paint every American (companies included) the same color aren't you?

 

Keep up with that mindset and we might live to see WW3.

 

I'm not American. But I'm not quick to judge an entire country on one thing alone.

Yep. Because mostly that's it.

Who cares though. Everything that's different to America is fine to me.

[Bhav]

So which is it? False advertising or not?

 

I keep seeing the benchmark fallacy pop up. Those benchmarks never tested for full utilization of VRAM, they aren't pertinent to the discussion.

 

False advertisement was only on the ROPs / L2 cache, not on the amount ofg Vram, isnt that obvious?

[Badger906]

For all ya'lls wondering whether this will hold up in court, just remember that America is the country that successfully sued Red Bull because it didn't actually give you wings. Mislabeling a product, AND THEN relabeling it differently later, is a lost cause. The only question is how much they're going to be reimbursing those people. :lol:

#TeamWhicheverOneIsCheapestOnMyNextPurchase #PopcornMuncher #DisGunnaBeGood

didn't a guy also successfully sue McDonalds because they didn't tell him eating it 3 times a day would make him fat!?