Holding a company to account yes - but it isn't nVidia's responsibility to police day to day decision making inside another company which you were trying to suggest which is quite ridiculous - hence my accusations you will leave no stone unturned in trying to find anything to fling at nVidia even if it means distorting or misleading information.
Where are these inferior components? as pointed out the capacitors were not a case of inferior components.
But my point remains, if this was AMD that had this launch with all these issues, you and many others would be all over this like a rash
But i think we can old Nvidia to account over the shady stuff MSI has been doing, was it not Nvidia who proposed the GPP rubbish? if they condone these things at the top, no wonder partners are pulling these kinds of stunts. Poop rolls down hill as they say.
As for the Caps issue, ok they may not be inferior, despite reports of many other manufacturers actually pointing out they are inferior to other types, i am not an electrical minded person so my knowledge here is rubbish and im ok admitting it, however i find it funny that many of the manufacturers actually changed the design post launch, some even recalling some of the cards that were sold.
There are many posts over Reddit and these very forums pointing out the design fail from some partners with these cards compared to other partners. So somewhere a decision was made to cut corners by some partners.
Why has Nvidia not insisted that all cards based on reference design be the same, but with just the cooling method changed? it seems not all partners did this, did it not? not if we are seeing "Reference" based cards with different components on the back of them, causing outrage as some are recalled, and others looking like the partners had skimped out on actual decent components for the cards while others have done a good job (Asus of all people).
So again, as far as im concerned there is no defending this, for a Reference based card the only thing that should really be changed is the cooler bolted onto it and potentially OC. If you start changing the power delivery away from the reference design then you better make sure the new design and components are fit for purpose, if they are not, again you are not only diminishing your brand but the name Nvidia gets dragged into the mud as well, so again, Nvidia should be policing these, and im fairly certain much of this stuff when based on reference design is policed by Nvidia.
Once AIBs start sporting their own designs, Nvidia is fully within their rights to stand back put the blame back on the Partner if the design sucks.
