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2080ti cards failing ?
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Mmm, 2006, Quake 4.
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What's the latest on this issue? Has it been narrowed down to particular vendors, or reference vs custom boards? Is it even just one issue, or a few different ones?
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seems like it was fake news as no one else has batted an eye lid about this
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Just a quick update as we have had a QA meeting and this was raised, going back to Nov '18 I posted about having 18 cards installed in customer machines, which were all FE models. From this original batch of machines we have had a total of 8 of the 18 cards failed and they were replaced. The customer has as a result of getting no help from Nvidia to address the issue other than replacing the cards stopped using the Ti model card for the foreseeable future, and is sticking with the RTX 2080 card which has seen a much less dramatic failure rate.
From my point of view it is annoying that they have not had the support from the manufacturer that they deserve, and that no admission of higher than expected failure has been admitted to by Nvidia. Contrary to the evidence of this batch of cards, we have used well over 50 cards since then and the failure rate has been significantly lower, albeit in different machines with different specifications, and different cards not just FE's. I doubt that Nvidia will ever admit to having any issue with these cards, and they will do an Apple and brush it under the carpet then maybe in 3 years time admit there was an issue, and if you are affected you can claim on your free 'extended' warranty which has now expired.
From my point of view it is annoying that they have not had the support from the manufacturer that they deserve, and that no admission of higher than expected failure has been admitted to by Nvidia. Contrary to the evidence of this batch of cards, we have used well over 50 cards since then and the failure rate has been significantly lower, albeit in different machines with different specifications, and different cards not just FE's. I doubt that Nvidia will ever admit to having any issue with these cards, and they will do an Apple and brush it under the carpet then maybe in 3 years time admit there was an issue, and if you are affected you can claim on your free 'extended' warranty which has now expired.
I expect all AIB's have been silenced, and if new failures occur people just RMA them, I do still see the odd new post popping up about failed cards, its also possible nvidia may have fixed it at manufacturing so newer cards dont get the issue, I dont consider it fake news tho.
Nvidia may think this is the way to go but I dont, I rather a vendor acknowledge a problem, then have it publicly fixed to restore my faith in the product, if they instead just go silent then how the hell do I know if its fixed. Instead I avoid the entire product line of the ill fated product so in this case it will mean I wont buy any first gen RTX card.
Many forums used to tell me and drill it into most members, never buy first gen.