SLI and HDCP broken for now

By Charlie Demerjian: Monday 23 October 2006, 09:03

NVIDIA IS GIVING out G80 cards to editors ' day attendees but no real drivers. Why on earth would Nvidia need to do that?

nVIDIA即將公怖的G80顯示卡給所有參加editor's day的技編可是卻沒有driver 來支援. 究竟 Nvidia 為什麼需要這麼作呢?

What is broken? Well, it seems G80 has a lot broken, some that will be fixed before launch, and some may be harder to fix.

違背那些地方呢? 哎呀 ,看來G80有許多的錯誤,在發表前自己都還未確定的,有一些問題更是目前比較困難去修復的.

Drivers on the 25th October will fix SLI, as we understand it is pretty badly borked in the current release. How badly? Enough to crash almost every time, said one source, and so basically unusable.

10/25日將會對於 SLI 的driver將會確定, 據我們了解它目前公開的driver本身是非常遭糕.有多遭呢? 據一位測試者資料來源得知, 幾乎常會當機.當完機就不能執行了.

We have a lot of confidence this will be fixed before launch, possibly in the driver set we told you about earlier. I would only rate this as a corporate embarrassment that will hopefully never leak due to "strong and respected NDAs". The "editors" are wearing chastity belts designed to preserve the new Dawn ' s virginity.

我們有十足的信心可以在正式發怖前改善這個問題,在早些時候我們都以經告訴過你有關driver的問題.我估計這不只是讓公司非常難堪也將不希望成為漏洞,因為"我們令人遵守的NDA條約" 這個編輯就好像是設計一個真操帶給一個處女戴著裝純潔.

The more troubling news is that we hear HDCP is badly borked in the first rev. Since we are not sure if this problem is hardware or software, if you care about jumping on the DRM infection train, you might want to look long and hard before you buy a G80.

這個讓人麻煩的消息是我們所聽到的HDCP是在這第一版中最嚴重的問題. 既然我們不確定假設性的問題是硬體還是軟體, 倘若你在乎是在DRM 病毒陣列的問題.在你要買G80產品前真的可以多觀察久一下.

Nvidia has something of a history of shipping broken functionality and not so much as correcting it on the box. Wait for independent reviews from people not wearing chastity belts that test this before you buy.

Nvidia之前有出過一些功能問題的貨甚至於都沒有去改善這些貨 .在你買這張卡之前希望能等到有一些沒有穿著真操帶的個別測試報告出來.

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請朋友幫忙翻譯一下出來變成這樣了
八卦很多，但是也不知道是否為實情
如果是真的，那G80的期待性應該會有所降低