Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 703 GTX 970 Refugees, TSMC Plays Rogue

After taking several deep breaths, the Asus CEO finally calmed down and said in a serious tone:
"You are right. Nvidia only lost one graphics card, but ASUS lost the entire industry chain!"

"Damn Nvidia, they really screwed us over!"

"Quick, contact NVIDIA immediately and cancel all orders for GTX 970 GPU chips!"

"Cancel all undelivered items. Block all shipped items. Return any unused GPU chips in the warehouse as soon as possible!"

"We must not let these defective GPU chips rot in ASUS's hands!"

"There are a million of them. They can kill us!"

"Okay, Chairman, but I'm afraid Nvidia won't agree. After all, the agreement is in place. If we don't want these defective GPU chips, Nvidia will be in trouble. It will be difficult for them to agree to our cancellation of the order!"

"This... Damn it, damn it, damn it."

The CEO of ASUS was very angry, and his words were full of insults.

Angry, so angry!

The loss caused to ASUS is too great!
"Even if we have to pay the penalty, we have to cancel the deal. We can't let that batch of chips get stuck in our hands!"

The boss of ASUS made a prompt decision.

"Yes!" The vice president quickly responded, "Chairman, do you want to tell NVIDIA about the video memory rollover incident?"

The boss of Asus waved his hand: "No, don't say anything. It's still dark in the United States now, right?"

"It's best to return the goods before they react and before the incident goes viral! Once they wake up, it will be difficult to return the goods!"

"Yes!"

But unfortunately, the ASUS boss’s wishful thinking was still in vain.

Regarding ASUS's application to cancel the order, NVIDIA just reported it mechanically and did not respond at all!
The GTX 970 rollover incident quickly became a hot topic, causing a sensation on the Internet:
[NVIDIA GTX 970 has serious frame drops when playing "Assassin's Creed" and "Watch Dogs", and all of them crashed. There are performance design defects! ]

[All major brands' GTX 970 series failed, but Xingyi RTX 970 can run smoothly and successfully counterattack! ]

[Crushing the collectively failed GTX 970, Xingyi RTX 970 achieved 980% of the performance of GTX 77, becoming the best in one battle! ]

Instantly, the whole network was shocked:
"What's going on? Didn't the sales of GTX 970 surge and overwhelm the Xingyi RTX 970? Why did the GTX 970 fail and the Xingyi RTX 970 become the best?"

"There is no way. GTX 970 has hardware defects and all of them crashed. On the contrary, Xingyi RTX 970 is very stable. Even in "Assassin's Creed", it can achieve 980% of the performance of GTX 77."

"Are you kidding me? The RTX 970 has achieved 980% of the performance of the GTX 77. This is possible and impressive. But the GTX 970s all failed. This is a bit funny."

"If you don't believe me, go watch the performance test live video, the whole process is in one shot. All major brands of GTX 970 are stuck and can't play games."

"The test video can also be faked, it's nothing. It's probably Xingyi Technology's agent."

"They are praising the RTX 970 and beating up the GTX 970. Xingyi Technology must have topped up its account."

"Mr. Performance, I used to be optimistic about him, but now he's just a shill. He's rubbish. I'm disappointed."

"He's doing this with the GTX 970. Isn't he afraid that Nvidia, Asus, and Gigabyte will sue him?"

"That's right, they really don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. They actually made fake reviews. Disgusting. Get ready to be sued."

"What do you mean by fake review? What do you mean by fear of being sued? I tell you, there is no problem with the performance test. My MSI GAMING 4G just arrived and has reproduced the performance test. Assassin's Creed is indeed stuck and has serious lags. There is really a problem."

"I also tested it with the ASUS ROG STRIX I just bought last week, and it also crashed. It's just as serious as the one tested by Performance Master."

"My Gigabyte G1 GAMING also crashed, and it was more serious than the one tested by Performance Master."

"Galaxy Black General user, crash +1, serious lag, I'm so pissed off."

"Users of the official version of the GTX 970 have also failed. I'm not saying this to you, the GTX 970 really failed. Holy crap!"

"Oh my god, so many users have come out to express their opinions. Could it be that the GTX 970 is really a failure?"

"Are they hired by Xingyi Technology to discredit GTX 970?"

"Fuck you, as long as you have a GTX 970, no matter what brand it is, you can test it. Try street racing in the first chapter of Watch Dogs, or just play any scene in Assassin's Creed, and you'll see, it'll freeze in a few minutes."

"so serious?"

"The fan group of Performance Master was blown up, and many netizens reproduced the test and it really failed."

"The graphics card bar was also in an uproar, everyone was clamoring for rights protection."

"Are there any users with lawyers? I want to protect my rights too. I bought this Gigabyte for 2999, it's rubbish, it's a disaster!"

"Once, GTX 970 was a loyal believer, now GTX 970 is a rights protection refugee!"

"I am crying, +1 for rights protection, pull me in, ASUS ROG STRIX rights protection group pull me in, let's protect our rights together!"

"Damn, it looks like the car has really flipped over. What happened?"

"The specific reason is unclear, but all GTX 970s from all major brands have failed, and the Xingyi RTX 970 is still the most powerful. It has powerful performance and no failures, and the price is cheap."

"I watched the entire performance live broadcast and posted the final comprehensive evaluation score."

【Based on "Watch Dogs" and "Assassin's Creed", GTX 970 graphics cards from all major brands have crashed and suffered serious lags. The final test scores are as follows:
First place, the RTX 970 has a performance score of 77, a cost-effectiveness score of 73, and an overall score of 150.

The reason for winning the championship is that it has 970% of the performance of GTX 980 at the ultra-low price of the GTX 77 public version, and it does not fail, with both cost-effectiveness and performance.

The most powerful graphics card under 4000!
This is the most cost-effective and reliable graphics card of the year, bar none.

Second place, GTX 980, performance score 100 points, cost-effectiveness score 0 points, overall score 100 points.

It’s priced at over 4000 yuan, but is only 2499% more powerful than the RTX 970 priced at 23 yuan. The price-performance ratio is too low.

Third place, GIGABYTE G1 GAMING, with a performance score of 27 points, a serious failure, a price/performance score of 0 points, and an overall score of 27 points.

Fourth place, ASUS ROG STRIX, with a performance score of 23 points, a serious failure, a cost-effectiveness score of 0 points, and an overall score of 23 points.

Fifth place, MSI GAMING 4G, with a performance score of 18 points, a serious failure, a cost-effectiveness score of 0 points, and an overall score of 18 points.

Sixth place, GALAXY Black General, scored 16.5 points for performance, a serious failure, scored 0 points for cost-effectiveness, and an overall score of 16.5 points.

Seventh place, NVIDIA GTX 970 public version, performance score 16 points, serious failure, cost performance score 0 points, comprehensive score 16 points. 】

After seeing the final review score, those who had been stubborn fell silent.

More users are broken:
"Damn, my $2899 Asus is down to 23 FPS? Is this true? This is too rubbish."

"It's all true. My friends in the game guild and I have reproduced all the tests, and all the results are correct."

"Damn, this Asus is rubbish. It's broken!"

"MSI is even worse than Asus."

"The worst thing is Yingchi, it turned out to be the public version of Ruansheng brother, crying."

"The Gigabyte overclocked version also failed, it's garbage, all the big manufacturers failed collectively, the RTX 970 is still reliable!"

"It's a no-brainer to buy an RTX 970. The GTX 970 has been a huge failure, and games like Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed are stuck. I don't know what will happen in the future."

"That's right. All new games in the first half of the year are stuck. Next year's new games will definitely be more demanding and will be stuck even more. You still need an RTX 970."

"Haha, I just rejected the MSI GAMING 4G, and I'm going to order the Xingyi RTX 970 now."

"I have already installed it and am currently removing it. I applied for a return within seven days, but Tmall does not support it."

"JD.com also requires that the package has not been opened or put on the plane, and no refunds will be given after use."

"I bought it in a physical store, and they won't even give me a refund!"

"What should I do?"

"They won't refund you offline or online. What happened to the 7-day no-questions-asked refund?"

"There's nothing we can do. The seven-day no-questions policy was just implemented this year and is not strict. Also, the platforms say that unpacking and use will affect secondary sales, so they won't refund unless there are quality issues."

"Damn it, design flaws, poor performance, isn't it just a quality issue? Why can't I return it?"

"The GTX 970 has such a serious failure. If everyone returns it, won't Nvidia have to pay a huge amount of money? They will definitely not allow refunds."

"Shameless, too shameless. Let's defend our rights, let's defend our rights together."

"Yes, we can only defend our rights!"

"Create a group, defend rights..."

"Refugees who have already bought GTX 970, join the group to protect your rights. If the product has not arrived yet, refuse to accept it and apply for a refund! If you haven't bought it yet, turn around and buy Xingyi RTX 970 immediately."

"Don't hesitate, or you'll have no place to cry."

"That's right. Once you buy a GTX 970, we, the GTX 970 refugees, will end up like you."

"It's hundreds more expensive than the RTX 970, and its performance is not as good as the RTX 970, and it's seriously overrated. Only a fool would buy the GTX 970. The RTX 970 is better."

"Fuck, stop scolding me. I already regret it. I will never believe in the halo of big companies again. It's unreliable. It's really unreliable."

"Xingyi Technology is still the best. It never fails. It's really stable."

"Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile phone chips have serious problems, but Xingyi Technology's Kunpeng chips never fail. Now Nvidia's GTX 970 has serious problems, but Xingyi RTX 970 graphics cards still do not fail." "Sure enough, Xingyi Technology is the strongest company, the strongest brand, stable and powerful."

"Yes, I will buy Xingyi Technology's products in the future."

"I wanted to order a GTX 970 to build a desktop computer, but now I just bought the Xingyi Desktop Z9!"

"Smart, it's troublesome to assemble it yourself and have after-sales service. If there is a problem, it's hard to explain. But the Xingyi desktop computer has a three-year warranty, and it's also a global warranty. If there is a problem, it can be handled at the flagship store nearby. It's very convenient, and it also has dual systems."

"That's right. I'm too lazy to assemble it myself, and I don't want to bother with it either. I'd rather just buy the Xingyi console. I can place an order in the morning and it will be delivered to my door in the afternoon. It's very convenient."

"I regret it. Xingyi Technology is still reliable. I bought an Xphone 4 to calm down. Nvidia is rubbish."

"Defend your rights! Defend your rights! Join the MSI Rights Protection Group!"

……

The online public opinion became more and more serious, and it became a hot topic not only in China but also abroad.

The situation is getting more serious.

More and more users have noticed the poor performance of Nvidia GTX 970 and have returned the products to protect their rights.

If the package is not opened, return it directly.

Just arrived, refuse to accept it.

If your order is still on the way, please apply for a refund directly!
Those who have already installed it are arguing with the platform while joining the group to defend their rights...

For a time, Nvidia GTX 970 failures became more and more serious, and sales plummeted rapidly.

Users who had placed orders have cancelled their orders, and users who had not placed orders simply gave up and chose the Xingyi RTX 970.

There is no doubt that in this round, the Xingyi RTX 970 completely wins.

On that day, the sales volume of Xingyi RTX 970 increased six or seven times, from to units per day to more than units per day.

However, this was just the beginning. The next day, the sales of Xingyi RTX 970 increased again, and the sales volume directly exceeded copies!

However, the sales volume of GTX 970 has dropped to more than units, while the return volume and complaint rate have continued to soar.

The situation has completely reversed!

Faced with the ever-fermenting public opinion, plummeting sales, and increasing returns, the bosses of major graphics card manufacturers are worried and unable to sleep at night.

Nvidia is also extremely anxious, but it is helpless and can only play dead!
But unfortunately, there is no point in pretending to be dead.

On the third day, Performance Master revealed the root cause of the GTX 970 crash:
[GTX 970 collectively crashed because of a design flaw in the GPU chip's video memory controller! ]

[The nominal 4G high-speed video memory is actually 3.5G high-speed video memory + 0.5G low-speed video memory...]

[Therefore, if the video memory usage exceeds 3.5G, the video memory will be overloaded, the frame rate will drop by 30%-50%, and there will be serious lag, leading to a video memory gate explosion! ]

As the news came out, it quickly caused an uproar.

Nvidia fans who were originally on the sidelines, thinking it was just a driver defect, have now given up and started returning products.

The [Nvidia video memory gate] incident quickly became a hot topic, and it was a global hot topic!

Lenovo headquarters.

Chairman Lao Yang was sweating as he read the reports about the video memory scandal:
"It turns out to be a hardware defect of Nvidia. Doesn't that mean that when Lenovo's GTX 970 laptops and desktops are launched, they will also be unsalable due to the GTX 970 video memory failure?"

"It's like this, Chairman. With the memory scandal behind us, Lenovo's computer sales won't soar with the GTX 970. On the contrary, they will continue to plummet!"

"It's over, it's all over!"

"If I had known this, I would have used the RTX 970. Oh!"

Old Yang was filled with emotion and regretted it so much, but unfortunately it was too late.

The more I thought about it, the angrier I got:

"Damn Nvidia, they cut corners and caused Lenovo to suffer heavy losses and ruin our future. This matter is not over yet!"

"No, I have to call Lao Huang myself and scold him severely to see how he explains it!"

But unfortunately, the phone rang for a long time but no one answered.

Gigabyte headquarters.

When Mr. Dong woke up and saw the news online, he felt like the sky was falling!

I decisively called Lao Huang.

But I can’t get through at all!
The same scenes are happening all over the world.

Nvidia headquarters.

Old Huang silently put his phone aside, feeling helpless.

This was the Nth call he had given the cold shoulder to.

There is no way to answer it. There is no way to answer it at all!
Old Huang walked into the conference room with a gloomy face, looked at the senior executives, and started another round of roaring!

"Fake!"

"Fake!"

"It's all because of that damn performance guy. He did a live review and exposed our past and triggered the GTX 970 memory scandal!"

"Damn it!"

"And the PR department, are you all good-for-nothings?"

"Why didn't you contact the blogger right away and pay him to delete the video? Even if you pay him more, he won't do this?"

The PR manager was somewhat helpless: "Chairman, when Mr. Performance was live streaming, it was daytime in Xia Country and nighttime here. By the time we woke up in the morning and learned about this incident, ten hours had already passed. In addition, there were more than a million people watching the live streaming, and the incident had already fermented throughout the entire network."

"We then contacted the company, hoping that they would delete the video and produce a clarification video, and we promised them a large sum of money, but they refused."

"After all, the live broadcast video is very popular, with over 100 million views. It's like a golden egg, bringing a steady stream of rich income and fans to Mr. Performance... Naturally, he doesn't want to delete it, clarify it, and damage his reputation."

Lao Huang frowned and said, "Then file a complaint against his video for copyright infringement and ask the platform to remove it!"

"It's very difficult. The video of Mr. Performance has gone viral all over the Internet, especially on the first release platform, Douyin, which is our mortal enemy. We complained, but Douyin didn't deal with it at all!"

"TikTok... Xingyi Technology... Wang Yi!" Old Huang sat down on the chair and instantly understood everything:
"I seriously suspect that all of this is the work of Xingyi Technology! It's all Wang Yi's work!"

"Performance Master's live broadcast of testing graphics cards triggered the memory scandal, which was promoted on Douyin and became popular all over the world. The GTX 970 memory scandal overturned and sales were slow, while the Xingyi RTX 970 was a global hot seller!"

"This operation is absolutely amazing!"

The faces of the senior executives were gloomy and they were filled with anger:
"That must be the case. It's all the work of Xingyi Technology!"

"What's worse is that our GTX 970 graphics memory really has problems. Xingyi Technology's move hits the nail on the head."

"Now the whole Internet is cursing Nvidia. Consumers are defending their rights and demanding returns and refunds. Our major customers, whether they are graphics card manufacturers or PC manufacturers, have come to us and demanded that orders be cancelled and products returned!"

"All returned? That's the end of it?" Old Huang's face turned green: "We have produced so many chips with problems. If all of them are returned and orders cancelled, who will we sell them to?"

"That's right, we can't retreat. No one can retreat. We must not start this."

"We have produced millions of GTX 970 chips, and they have all been returned. Our losses are huge."

"The only way now is to suppress the heat and negate the memory gate!"

The PR manager sighed, "It's impossible to suppress it. Seeing that Performance-Lord became very popular because of the Nvidia video memory scandal and gained 3 million followers in two days, other bloggers were also tempted and started to follow suit and post videos about the Nvidia video memory scandal to get traffic."

"There are also bloggers who directly imitated Mr. Performance and live-streamed a test of our graphics card and it failed..."

"As a result, the entire internet was filled with videos of Nvidia's GTX 970 memory scandal, and this happened worldwide... We couldn't suppress the news even if we wanted to!"

"We can't suppress the popularity. More and more returns are coming. The sales of GTX 970 graphics cards are getting lower and lower. We have a large number of GTX 970 GPU chips in our warehouses and factories, and it's hard to sell them!"

"But if we really return the goods, our loss will be too great!"

"What should I do?"

For a moment, Lao Huang was in despair and in a dilemma!

The other senior executives were also silent, at a loss.

After a long while, the vice president broke the silence:

"Chairman, we have no other choice. In order to clear out the GTX 970 GPU defective chips in our hands, we can only keep silent and never admit the memory scandal. Once this wave of news has passed, we will quickly sell off all the chips in stock!"

“And notify TSMC as soon as possible to cut orders and immediately stop the production of GTX 970 GPU chips.”

Huang came back to his senses and said: "Yes, notify TSMC to stop production immediately!"

"Let's sell the existing defective chips first!"

"Yes!"

The vice president immediately contacted TSMC, only to find that TSMC had also started to act like a rogue!
(End of this chapter)