Imagine if the card could melt whilst your asleep, cause electrical fire? No way id have one of these 590's in my rig. In 6 months time might get reports of cards just failing at idle, to risky to buy one of these now, wait until Nvidia get the problem fixed. Or just grab a HD 6990..
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*The GTX590 Club*
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Imagine if the card could melt whilst your asleep, cause electrical fire? No way id have one of these 590's in my rig. In 6 months time might get reports of cards just failing at idle, to risky to buy one of these now, wait until Nvidia get the problem fixed. Or just grab a HD 6990..
Soldato
It's not entirely implausible that is the case. Would make a lot more sense than an experienced hardware company making a school boy error with the design.
Aye, something (kind of) similar happened to Dell a few years back. Just search for GX280 capacitors.
You sound like my lecturer! Lol, he had the same problem, only his wasn't even overclocked .. it just died whilst running one of Nvidia's own benchmark / tech demo's.
You have sold me for a 6990 and now to decide which make ,
Dont want ASUS after the Sandybridge stink
DONt know much about HIS or Sapphire any recommendations
Associate
Thinking about it I'm even more stunned now than I was last night.
These are very expensive cards, we know Nvidia haven't made a lot of them, and they've only been on sale since Wednesday. Given the price, lets say no more than a hundred have been sold in the uk (complete guess )... my card and the others that have "gone for a burton" would make up a frightening percentage of cards for any retailer, especially given the exciting manner of their demise.
Maybe Nvidia may not want to do a recall, but will the retailers having to deal with the RMA's let them get out of it that easily?
These are very expensive cards, we know Nvidia haven't made a lot of them, and they've only been on sale since Wednesday. Given the price, lets say no more than a hundred have been sold in the uk (complete guess )... my card and the others that have "gone for a burton" would make up a frightening percentage of cards for any retailer, especially given the exciting manner of their demise.
Maybe Nvidia may not want to do a recall, but will the retailers having to deal with the RMA's let them get out of it that easily?
Man of Honour
Popular club is popular D:
Associate
Yeah, maybe we should change the title of the thread to;
"*The GTX590 Survivors Club*"
Soldato
Nvidia made a school boy error imo, tried to be clever by making the card shorter than the 6990 as well as save on the extra components, and ended up with MOSFETS that can't handle the current even at stock.
Bottom line is, if Nvidia did any notable testing at all they would have found this issue as it's just soo prevalent even with a small number of cards.
And to top it off the new drivers are a joke, if you Overclock the card you end up with less performance than at stock, If Nvidia doesn't recall all these cards and then release a revised PCB you can say good bye to the hope of 3rd party AIB's resolving the overclock portion of the issue, because they will be held back by drivers. No point clocking the core up to 900mhz on water but have the card actually run slower than stock clocks only now with irregular performance and stuttering.
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1037036162&postcount=319
If Nvidia don't recall these cards I can see them ending up with another class action lawsuit like when they were sued for knowingly selling faulty mobile GPU's.
Where are all the updated WARNING's on review sites? How many cards need to die before reviews get updated? Tbh that speaks volumes to me.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=3930980&postcount=74
Soldato
I would have thought possible court action might be enough to issue a recall?
Also I would have thought some kind of trading standards body would get involved, and tbh what the point in the CE mark to say the product is safe and can be sold in the EU?
Soldato
Soldato
Would love for Raven to not be banned right now.
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Same, especially given all the wild claims he made - many of which are now deleted
Soldato
Me to, it will be more fun if he's not wearing his red slippers when he comes back as well...
Soldato
So glad I didn't buy 1 right now.
Associate
Thanks for the link Final8y.
While over there I couldn't help but notice the P***K that thinks just because I don't have a camera this makes me a liar. I take that to heart in a very big way...
So without further adue I've borrowed my neighbours camera phone and taken a couple of shots. Just to show I've got NOTHING to hide I've included a shot of the packing box with my RMA slip taped to the top.
Since I don't have a forum account over there anyone want to point him and anyone else thinking I'm a liar to the pictures.
Soldato
Well that's my point, they would have done lots of testing for sure.
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I see the problem....made in China!
Bad luck though man I'd be equally pee'd had I spent 500+ on a card for it to do that.
Bad luck though man I'd be equally pee'd had I spent 500+ on a card for it to do that.