Is Nvidia FX-570 also a faulty graphics card?

After ordered T61P-AV8 with Nvidia FX-570 graphics card, I was told that all "G84/86 gpu are bad". Since Dell has already provided the BIOS upgrades. Of course BIOS upgrade is some kind of "half-a**" pitch, but it at least proves the faults in mentioned gpus.
Can someone tell me if the FX-570 within T61 is also faulty or not? If it is so, what is the plan for Lenovo to solve the problem?
Thanks!

NVIDIA has not commented very clearly on which the bad batches were to the public and probably never will, so it's only the company bigheads who know what's really going on.
Given the current bits and pieces of information which is publicly available at the moment, there is no reason to believe that the NVIDIA GPUs in our T61(p) notebooks are not affected by this problem.
I'd love to hear a statement from Lenovo too. However, I'm a bit afraid that there is some kind of coverup going on at NVIDIA and secret agreements and terms being negotiated between NVIDIA and the companies who used their chips.
Message Edited by Quagmyre on 07-28-2008 12:07 AM
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