How The GPU Tables Have Turned

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How The GPU Tables Have Turned

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The great GPU driver irony strikes again! For years, AMD was the punchline for unstable drivers while Nvidia users smugly updated with confidence. Now the tables have turned with Nvidia's 576.02 driver causing GPUs to potentially cosplay as space heaters by failing to report temperatures.

It's like watching your ex who "had issues" get their life together while your "stable" partner suddenly decides to burn down the house. The tech karma gods have spoken, and they have a twisted sense of humor.

The workarounds? About as effective as putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg. Time to roll back drivers and pretend this never happened... just like AMD users have been doing for decades!

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