Cyran said:
It crazy to me that with all the protections built into GPU these days that this could still happen. You would think that with how GPU throttle down base on temps and the power limits that it would not be difficult to test and ensure you making a product this don't happen especially for a company like evga. First thing I do when I get a new gpu is to figure out what the overclock limits are stable and then stress test it. Which mean I ran my 3090 with power limit set to max, Memory and Clock OC through a stress test where it staying at 100% usage for about a hour. No issues. Afterward I set it back to stock because I don't really need it OC I just like to find out how good the silicon I own is. I wonder if the game doing something that even a stress test would not find or if the cards affected would also fry if it went through a similar stress test. I guessing I would be fine with my ASUS strix 3090 but I still would not chance it by playing the game at the moment, luckily it a game I never had a interest in. |
Yea it is absolutely insane that $1500+ cards have shit Quality Control from Evga. This should have been something that was caught in testing. Clearly the GPU is failing at some point to even protect itself which is nuts. The users seem to be stating that something is making a popping sound before it completely dies so something most likely blowing up similar to their 10 series.
Yea I personally just do some stress tests to see where the temps are or if there's some weird issues.
Yea the Asus Strix according to BuildZoid has the best PCB of the bunch only second to something like a Kingpin or Hall of Fame as the Strix is fully custom and over-engineered. Evga's one if I remember correctly uses a Reference design PCB but with their own cooler and slight customization unless you go Kingpin. I always knew there was something off about those clown lips on the Evga cards and it looks like their Quality Control is the Joke.
It is truly shameful when a Zotac 3090 can have no issues like this but an Evga 3090 shits the bed.
Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 21 July 2021
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