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2080ti cards failing ?
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TBF that's outrageous, mega happy I haven't took the plunge now and I feel massive empathy for anyone that has. This must have been an issue in testing so how have Nvidia ignored it and released these products to the public, it's not like they're 10p each.....
Don't think am going take the gamble...
Not saying that these cards don't have issues, but it is amazing how those tech sites that didn't sign / have a beef with NVidia have failures and then others like GN have no issues with all their own cards.
Fishy or salty?
I can't decide.
Here is how I see it. He had to buy the cards, so if something goes wrong, it will hurt him like an actual customer, and so he will emphasise these points more, so he is looking at it more from a consumer point of view now, rather than as a media arm of the company they reviewing (which is how the official reviewers tend to look at it imo). What we seeing with hardocp now is great, I wish literally all reviewers were buying everything from retail that they reviewed.
Official reviewers how often do you hear the following?
"Well it went wrong with us but we didnt mention it as the vendor said they would fix it"
"well we had the issue but we assumed would be fixed in a software update so seen it as teething issues, so didnt mention it"
"We got in touch with the vendor, the issue was not on the replacement so we assumed it was just a one off dud we received, it happens".
I have also heard phrases like this
"At the request of the vendor we decided not to mention it to give them time to fix the problem in house"
Or in the case of gamers nexus he revealed in that interview with the intel review company that he had some issues with ryzen when reviewing it, but never explained why he did not disclose it in his reviews.
How many reviewers you think would have accidentally missed the 970 3.5gig issue if they were buying those cards at retail?
Here is CrReaM, a Twitch streamer who had his EVGA 2080ti FTW3 GAMING iCX die on him while live streaming Farm Simulator 2019.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/339878940?t=06h41m41s (starts about 6-7s early)
It seems he didn't know about the dying 2080ti because after going all Space Invaders on him, he blames the newest Nvidia drivers instead until he realizes the card is dead.
It was not hot when it died and he had been using his 2080ti for about a month.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/339878940?t=06h41m41s (starts about 6-7s early)
It seems he didn't know about the dying 2080ti because after going all Space Invaders on him, he blames the newest Nvidia drivers instead until he realizes the card is dead.
It was not hot when it died and he had been using his 2080ti for about a month.
We have had reviewers with cards fail on them when has that happened before? And now failing in live Twitch streams? Hard to believe that there are still people in denial about the issues these cards are having.
Seen two posts in another thread yesterday saying that the 2080Ti's are just as reliable as any other card and they don't fail and the returns rate is really low. Which is kind of ironic as one of the posts came in between two owners reporting that their cards had failed.
They'll just keep pushing the same spiel its a low number of units. Apparently all these "test escapes" must be very far reaching as it even affects third party cards.
Yea and funny how "test cards" somehow managed to get back on to the production line and boxed up lol.
Nvidia must be taking lying lessons from the Russian government.
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Man of Honour
There have been no recent additions to the thread I started where people could list defective 2080 Ti cards.
If anyone has any more defective cards please post in the thread so we can keep track.
Even funnier how all these "test cards" have a quality control sticker and all fail in exactly the same way. Hmmmm
Makes no difference, it's still happening, just because its not posted on here doesn't change that fact. This forum only reflects on the whole a very small percentage of enthusiasts.
Maybe they can't see the screen because their £1500 test GPU is broke.
Man of Honour
All cards have a % of failures.
IIRC it was quite high with the 290P and 290X, loads of black screens.
As far as i remember the grey\black screen thing was more of a driver bug.
And yes all cards have a percentage of failures but all dramatically failing in exactly the same way points to something other than random failures.
Man of Honour
Not a driver bug.
Weak output circuitry.
Even on a good card it was possible to demonstrate the fault when running an extreme OC.
Unfortunately some people had the problem when the cards were running stock.
I have 4 290X cards I have never bothered to sell second hand for the reason above.
Still doesn't explain the 2080ti failures, the "test boards" reasons doesn't wash as the problem has occured on cards that don't use the reference board. So it'll be interesting to see if they upgrade this to test gpu chips at some point.
They might not have posted in your thread but they have posted in this and the owners thread. I have posted the figures earlier in this one. Of the 46 people on this forum with 2080Ti cards, 10 have had to issue an RMA.
I think it's more worrying that in such a low volume of owners so many had to return their cards. If the returns rate was only 1 or 2% then the chances of a single OCUK owner getting a bad card would be really, really low, never mind 10 owners getting a bad card.
Kyle from hardocp out of 3 cards has had 2 dud ones, 1 of which was a newer card with the samsung ram.