nVidia loses class action lawsuit. Get your free $30 return for your GTX 970!

Ladies and Gents,

nVidia has finally run out of options and has decided to settle the class action lawsuit for lying about it's full 4GB specs of the GTX 970. For those who brought GTX 970 you can now claim $30 which nVidia will be forced to hand out.

You can read about the full settlement on PC Gamers website:

http://www.pcgamer.com/heres-how-to-claim-your-30-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-settlement/

You can submit for your refund on the website below:

https://www.gtx970settlement.com/Landing.aspx

Note: You have until November 30, 2016 to file a claim, or you can opt out by November 8, 2016 and retain your rights to sue Nvidia. You also have until November 8, 2016 to object or comment on the proposed settlement. If you do nothing you give up your right to the proposed settlement along with your right to sue Nvidia.

So, if I were a GTX 970 owner or know someone who owns a GTX 970 I would tell them to submit it ASAP.

At least you guys are lucky and getting some money I brought an expensive 17" Gaming Laptop with a nVidia Gaming GPU and it died on me because of defective design on the manufacturing of the GPU, which nVidia lied about and tried to cover it up till they lost like they did here in a class action lawsuit. Too bad I got $0 out of it because the lawsuit didn't include Botique Gaming Laptop makers like Alienware.

So, Enjoy your $30. :)

It would have been quite pissed if I bought a 400$ card and find out later they nerfed 1/8 of my vram.

$30 doesn't replace the missing pixels.

Aaaand nothing for those who don't live in USA. bummer

What were they ever thinking with that Ram setup anyway? Could it really have saved them much $ per card?

Filed my claim and then sold the card on ebay :P

@chikenfriedrice: lol.

Hope you still have the receipt.

@Xtasy26 Do you only come here to make threads involving bad things about NVIDIA? Why aren't you talking about the fact Pascal has been running rampant for months and AMD isn't releasing anything to force competition in the higher-end bracket?

@Juub1990: Already submitted the S/N and a copy of my Amazon sales receipt, should be good.

#payday

I live in Canada, but even if I didn't, I don't care that much. In all honesty, my 970 has been a solid card.

I got the notice a month or two ago. That's going toward a 1070 along with the proceeds from selling my 970.

1080p or 1440p? I have a 1440p screen and it struggles a bit at that resolution on some games.

@Zero_epyon: 1080P. I wanted to stay there until I can get a solid 4KTV and a decent enough card to run it.

Ah ok.

only for USA. damn ye nvidia

so far though the only game i've hit 4gb of usage that i have played is Rise of Tomb Raider with the textures max'd at 1080pee. If i turn them down 1 notch the memory usage is around 3gb and runs fine. I almost hit 3.4 gb usage on GTA 5 with things max'd.

Still though, that 30 dollars could have changed my life.

I got an email from Amazon a few months back saying they will email all customers who bought GTX 970 when it's time to take action.

@mjorh: It's apparently ok to lie to the rest of the world..

Yeah lol , they ain't gonna lose that much when it's only for US.

What was the reason why the 970's were fudged up like this?

Hmm, thanks for the links OP; totally forgot about this and ignored the emails about it thinking ill get to it when i get to it.

yea thats some hot BS, I want my 30 dollars

@Xtasy26: Have you seen this yet?

http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-vega-20-navi-7nm-finfet-globalfoundries/

Put in my claim for $30, but I traded my 970 in to EVGA on the Step-Up program for a 980Ti a while back.

What the hell? I was only posting facts and informing Gamers who got screwed. What the hell does this have to do with Pascal? (and for the record I did talk about it on the PC Hardware Forum when it was announced that Vega was going to be delayed). Stop deflecting and trying to change the subject.

This also has to do with the fact that this is not the first time nVidia has screwed Gamers, as I stated in my OP where I lost an expensive 17" Gaming Laptop because it had those defective nVidia Gaming GPUs. If someone would have informed me that there was a class action lawsuit against nVidia due to those defective Gaming GPUs that they were putting in laptops, I would have contacted the law firm and tried to include my Gaming Laptop maker to be on the lists to be compensated.

I am doing a service to the PC Gaming community here in Gamespot and as it turns out some people didn't know about it. Unlike you, I am actually doing something to help fellow Gamers who got screwed by nVidia.

Yeah I read about it. I hope it turns out to be true and AMD can execute those plans.

americans are idiots... the 970 has worked fine, you guys just need shit to bitch at all the time..sue people for everything you can get, rather than enjoying the things you have..

Serves nVidia right for thinking they can get away with their shady practices.

Justice has been SERVED.

@undeadgoon: Are you aware of what happened?

Dude just ignore these fools the Nvidia is dominating and giving gamers tons of graphics at great prices. I wouldn't file for 30 dollars thats just stupid people bought the product and are satisified im not filing for crap even if they did break some agreement i don't care 30 bux for a bunch of paper work nobody has the time for that crap.

These people have a axe to grind against nvidia this one dudes a hardcore amd fanboy look at this one dude here don't take them seriously there idiots bro.

Well least buyers got something

@Juub1990: yeah im aware, and altho annoying its still a good card and i have yet to find any problems with it.

I don't regret paying what i did for my 970, and i'm pretty sure my next card will be nvidia as well

@undeadgoon: I used to own one and ran into VRAM problems fairly frequently at 1440p. Switched to a pair of 980's which have the same amount of VRAM and never got VRAM issues again except for DOOM and Rise of the Tomb Raider which require 5GB+ of VRAM. Good thing I sold my 970.

Filled out the form maybe...a month ago, it feels like. I get my $60 back! Nvidia...you lying sob's!

I've also gotten 2 980 ti's since then, as well as 2 1070's. One day...I hope AMD is competitive again (haven't bought since...I think it was 700 series? Long time ago...can't remember)

@Juub1990: ok fair enough, i still play at 1080 so i guess thats why i have seen any issues, but ill keep that in mind if i upgrade my monitor, thx for the tip

No, it's not being an idiot. If I buy a car that states that it has 550 Horse power and I buy that car I want those extra 50 horse power not the 500 horse power, if that was the case, people may have chose a different car to go with if they knew they weren't getting the horsepower they thought they got. People may have brought R9 290 or R9 290X for example if they had know about the 3.5GB issues. It's called justice.

And as it turns out, 3.5GB limit is being easily hit in some games now.

Filling out a ton of paper? LOL. That's a good one. It only takes 5 minutes if you do it via the website. Why would mail stuff in when you can do it online. And no I am not a "AMD fanboy" looks like you are the one who is trying to deflect and refuses to acknowledge that nVidia was found GUILTY in COURT OF LAW for engaging in criminal activity. We have things called "LAWS" in this country to protect consumers. Maybe you should read up on some. If I was a "fanboy" then why did I buy nVidia products before including the expensive 17" Gaming Laptop that had nVidia Gaming GPU that I got screwed over because the GPU died because defective GPUs that nVidia shipped to OEMs that they again got SUED for and LOST in a Court of LAW.

If nVidia was a person, they would have been charged with orchestrating a fraud and would have been a convicted felon.

A corporation is a legal entity. It can be charged with a crime just like a real person.

That's what I was saying. My point is exactly!

lmao $30.