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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

C'mon! You know that Nvidia can't do that. It would be such a disaster on all fronts that it could actually gamage Nvidia more than any hardware AMD or Intel brings to compete with Ada.

Captain_Yuri said:

4090 Strix review - Beyond Fast with a few big hiccups

With RDNA 3 announcement approaching next week, I may as well get my review out of the way just in case there's a reason for me to return it and boy, idk if I'll ever buy another GPU at launch again after this experience lmao.

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Conclusion:

One would think that with Nvidia controlling a large part of the PCB, the power adapters the GPUs come with, the VBIOS the GPUs ship with and the driver stack that 4090 would be a flawless launch. Like how can a company goof up a launch where they control so many aspects of it? But apparently, Nvidia can... Newegg does have a 30 day return policy and while I am happy enough with my 4090 after getting its issues sorted, if AMD has something better, I am open to switching considering how many issues this launch has had.

Thanks you for your insight. It will be interesting to hear from TallSilhouette, to see if he has also had the same problems as you have.

The driver part really surprises me as you'd expect Nvidia to nail that for such an important release. For all the (deserved) crap AMD and Intel get thrown, Nvidia chose the worst time possible to launch a faulty driver.

Again, thanks for sharing.

It feels like it's heading towards that disaster if the reports keep piling up anyway. At some point if it does continue to happen, government agencies will get involved and do a mass recall and that would truly be bad for them. If it was just a bad batch that went to a specific brand, than maybe it would make sense. But the cable fires are not only happening to different brands but also to prebuilts. Imo they need to get ahead of it because the damage will only get worse.

And yea, no prob. If there's one thing about GPU launches is that there's always something to make it more interesting for better or for worse lol.

We're still far, far away from government agencies getting involved and, because user/customer manipulation is intrinsic with this product (even if the customer happens to be a business that sells pre-build systems), it makes it all more complex than, for example, Samsung's exploding phones.

There are still things we don't know that could be the source of the problem, like most adapters coming from the same company and that they're not up to the specs, for example. Who knows.

At best, it's a combination of circumstances and this whole situation will resolve itself and fade away in a few weeks. At worse, I could see Nvidia offering to replace the adapters with "official" ones... something that would benefit their hypothetical plan to slowly get rid of AIBs.

TallSilhouette said:

JEMC said:

It will be interesting to hear from TallSilhouette, to see if he has also had the same problems as you have.

Hope not, lol. Got a few upgrades to do this weekend if I have time. New SSD, PSU, and GPU. Then maybe some RAM on Black Friday or something if I have the moolah. Apparently I should be extra careful installing the gpu power cable.

I hope so as well. And yes, with this card, you have to be extra cereful with the power cables.