Just got home to find an answerphone message from a competitor telling me that "due to a manafacturers recall my new Palit sonic 580 GTX won't be delivered today, and I have been refunded"

Looks like Palit have ballsed it right up again, first with the 460 GTX vrm heatsink fiasco and now selling GTX 580s with unstable overclocks, don't think I'll be buying Palit again tbh.

Looks like they put too much on the overclock without the necessary volts.

I did think that clock was quite a leap.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18205977

I nearly bought a Palit OC yesterday went for a POV in the end today.

I did get suspicious when a couple of threads popped up here involving their cards, thought they may have screwed the cooling like forgetting to put all the thermal pads on the memory or something

Just bump up the voltage, job done.

standard one is okay though?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18206129

Sod it, this is the exact card that I've got. Good explanation for all the problems I'm getting!

I would have bought 2 of them sonics only for OCUK got the summary description wrong on the GTX 580 page and listed both Palits at the same speed. Didn't bother clicking into it to see that it was an overclocked card. So I went for the EVGA's instead. Then when I discovered they were the overclocked jobs, I rang OCUK to change my order but couldn't get through. So 2 lucky saves for me Sorry to hear about anyone who got a potentially duff card.

Have OCUK confirmed this recall notice ?

Voltage said:

standard one is okay though?

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It should be because it's a reference card like all the others, I assume it's just the overclocking causing issues.

i would never buy palit after the 460 fiasco you just cant trust them not to skimp..

wasnt the vrm heatsink only worth a few pence?

arknor said:

i would never buy palit after the 460 fiasco you just cant trust them not to skimp..

wasnt the vrm heatsink only worth a few pence?

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Also, they don't seem to have an existence in UK...so RMA would have to be sent to Germany?

Anybody know why the cards have been recalled ?

Im concerned because as i just questioned on the other post, i have just got a palit gtx580 sonic. Dropped it in & idling 38-40C, my room is nice & cold, but im hitting temps as high as 89C during vantage, heaven, sf4 bench etc.

Im seeing reviews only hitting like high 70s & low 80s, yet im in a a really cool room seeing 89C. During summer with room temps a good 10C hotter theres no way this would stay under 95C threshold imo.

EDIT: Tried running crysis benchmark but that crashed out twice now despite having so not so high temps.

I am surprised they recalled the cards when a simple BIOS update would most likely resolve the issues. An extra 0.1v should make them all stable at 835core

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Well im getting weird issues. My temps seem to be improving, now idling 33C! And when i tried to run crysis & farcry 2 bench marks i think they were going to the 70s but like i said, they crashed out with display error. May try run vantage again to see what temps i get. Then might try drop clocks to 800mhz to see what happens. Not best pleased.

EDIT: Nah, vantage still hitting 87C, thats crap. Card doesnt seem cooled well enough or stable.

87C isn't particularly dangerous, you'll probably find the card is fine at reference clocks.