No it isn’t, it’s about credibility, if they loose it’ll only give bullets to AMD advertising their cards as the ones that don’t melt. This potentially could end up costing nVidia way more in lost revenue from selling current gen not to mention the next gen cards than anything they could be told to pay due to the ruling. And that’s probably the only reason they could ever care about (even if they say it’s not card’s fault) and make sure the next gen doesn’t repeat the same mistakes.. I mean, don’t you remember Apple and the antenna issue when they ended up saying “you’re holding the phone wrong” yet still quietly introduced changes to the next model to rule this out once and for all? Same principle, that’s why this is not a waste of time, not by a long shot!