Ok maybe not, but it would seem that there have been some issues with a very limited number of 38xx series cards coming from one OEM and those made by another company.
Diamond Multimedia is the company in question and it seems that perhaps as many as 20,000 38xx series graphics boards that it distributed could be defective.
According to the information available at the time of writing, the problem appears to be related to the actual boards and not the GPU at all. Reports show that the root causes are cold solder joints, bad resistors, improperly coded BIOSes and under rated power supplies.
The issue revolves around Alienware, it would seem that they found a large number of failures with the Diamond supplied 38xx cards ( with up to 10% failure rate for X2 cards) they returned all of the cards bought from Diamond between January and July of this year, and ended their relationship with Diamond.
But Diamond is only partially to blame, they do not build their AIBs, these are made for them by other companies (as is a very common practice Leadtek gets their cards from Foxconn). The company that made the defective batch of cards would seem to be ITC (more commonly known as GeCube). The issue also appears to have been aggravated by power supplies used by Alienware that did not deliver enough power; many of these PSUs were rated at 750 watts but were only delivering in the 500-600 Watt range.
Although some still want to point the blame at AMD for not catching these issues during qualification, the fact that many AIB manufacturers make changes that are never submitted to AMD make this really a stretch.
Now for some perspective and soda;
If numbers are correct there are roughly 2 million 38xx cards in play.
Diamond shipped roughly 20,000 potentially defective cards or roughly 1% of the total cards out.
If we go with the high of a 10% failure rate of that 20,000 (2000 cards) we see that the actual number of defective cards is only .01% of the total out.
Compare this to the numbers of defective green GPUs out and you will see some staggering differences.
Also unlike the green guys, Diamond will replace any defective card free of charge.