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Amazon’s New World reportedly breaking RTX 3090 graphics cards
- merb 5y agoa game should never be able to fry hardware. the headline should be "rtx 3090 cards can be fried by playing a game".
- amlozano 5y agoIt seems to be something mostly specific to the EVGA version of the card, which is a real head scratcher.
- Saris 5y agoMy first thought is this game just happens to put a lot of load on the card, and EVGA has some faulty VRMs out there that are burning up.
- pitched 5y agoThe RAM chips on the back of the card aren’t cooled well and can hit 110C regularly when mining. That can be fixed by using better thermal pads for the most part though. So my bet is that EVGA used a set of really bad thermal pads and the RAM on the back is dying.
- rasz 5y agoBadly implemented power limits, 5 mOhm resistors out of spec and bam all of a sudden you go past 350W (or whatever it is) hardware limit.
- genocidicbunny 5y agoThere have been reports of this happening to non-EVGA cards on twitter, so the preponderance of EVGA cards failing here is likely just due to their market share. EVGA has sold far more RTX 3090 cards than any other AIB partner of nVidia.
- h2odragon 5y agoNext month, Nvidia will be including this code in their drivers as anti-mining measure. Seriously tho I'm interested what chain of events led to this possibility; it sounds like it might be something minor that some makers changed from a reference design...
- cratermoon 5y agoNext month, Amazon will be selling a new "Amazon Basics" brand video card based on the RTX 3090.
- Rd6n6 5y ago> Most complaints seem to involve EVGA-made versions of the GeForce RTX 3090 Coincidentally, my evga gtx 1080 lit on green fire last week while powering the system on. It was during power up when I was there luckily, not over night. It’s terrifying when you think of what could have happened