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

[Purgatory]

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

https://www.igorslab.de/en/looming-pads-and-too-hot-gddrx6-memory-siliconitis-on-a-geforce-rtx-3080/

Gigabyte also have the same issue, not just MSI as this content shows.

 

[Grim5]

Lol gigabyte, when your thermal pads get so hot they turn into oil

 

[Dontrocktheboat]

Gigashite

 

[clone]

Had that problem years ago with my EVGA 470.

 

[EsaT]

Guess that's one sign of graphics cards just being too big power hogs when thermal pads melt away...

 

[Grim5]

Guess that's one sign of graphics cards just being too big power hogs when thermal pads melt away...

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

 

[GloriousMess]

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.

 

[Yaayuh!]

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.

 

[JediFragger]

Gigashite

 

[KompuKare]

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.

 

[NinjaCool]

How to identify MSI/Gigabyte 3080/3090 owners

Looks at own card, MSI 3070Ti... it has GDDRX6 memory too!!

 

[rumple9]

same happened with evga 1080 when they came out 5 years ago

 

[Minstadave]

EVGA has had weepy thermal pads for years. My 1080 Classified had issues with it.

 

[Joxeon]

Both the pads and paste were rubbish on my msi 3080 and replacing both dropped temps by 28c and 7c respectively.

 

[pallys]

Both the pads and paste were rubbish on my msi 3080 and replacing both dropped temps by 28c and 7c respectively.

Is the warranty void now?

Do Nvidia allow pad changes on founders edition without affecting warranty or can't they tell?

 

[g67575]

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.

 

[humbug]

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

https://www.igorslab.de/en/looming-pads-and-too-hot-gddrx6-memory-siliconitis-on-a-geforce-rtx-3080/

Gigabyte also have the same issue, not just MSI as this content shows.

Crypto miners.


I hope they blow up and set his house a blaze.

 

[Joxeon]

Is the warranty void now?

I guess so although I did keep the old pads just incase, I would still try to RMA as there is nothing to lose.

 

[Grim5]

How to identify MSI/Gigabyte 3080/3090 owners

Looks at own card, MSI 3070Ti... it has GDDRX6 memory too!!

Gigashiite cannot catch a break

from melting thermal pads to exploding power supplies!!

 

[dave28]

I hope my 3070 Ti doesnt get any issues, it also has the GDDR6X