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Defective pads and too hot GDDRX6 memory – silicon alert on the GeForce RTX 3080, 3080 Ti & 3090

Guess that's one sign of graphics cards just being too big power hogs when thermal pads melt away...
 
EsaT said:
Guess that's one sign of graphics cards just being too big power hogs when thermal pads melt away...
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One of the videos is oil leaking from several GTX1060 gigabyte cards, those are just 120w to 150w.

So it's very clear that power draw is not the issue, but the design of the card and materials used
 
Yeah, not surprised that much. Having seen a fair few teardowns and a good number of "help!" posts from Nvidia owners, you kinda see the trend for the upper half of the 3000 series. Disappointing, really, even if this particular problem turns out to be a very small sample of the total sold.
 
Hardly surprising when you look at how shoddy some of the coolers and are how badly the pads are placed, sometimes not really making much contact.
Looks to be poor choice of pads used too, just to save the tiniest amount of cost.
 
Dontrocktheboat said:
Gigashite :p:p:p
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Kudos once again to Igor.
He'd better watch it though or he might become persona non grata with Nvidia as it looks like not only the AIBs messed up.
If I was spending £2000 on a card (zero chance!), I would expect some longevity but given the choice to save a few dollars on such an expensive GPU it looks like most AIBs will.
Once they had realised they've made the wrong choice on the pads, your think they'd try and use their supply up with the non GDDR6X cards.
 
Both the pads and paste were rubbish on my msi 3080 and replacing both dropped temps by 28c and 7c respectively.
 
S*** dodged a bullet there...

Is this a problem with the RTX 3080 FE, or not?

Still, 3 year warranty for Founders Edition cards, apparently.
 
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