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EVGA 3080/3090 Faulty fan controllers design fault - Igor's Lab

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But, but, Jayz2Shills says it's all down to the Amazon devs!
Hes not qualified To comment on electronic engineering And design .

Even in his video, the card Power draw was fluctuating.
Msi card was running smoothly.

There is no denying Card have design issues.
I have to give EVGA some credit for taking it in. No point Hiding And denying everything.
 
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I have to give EVGA some credit for taking it in. No point Hiding And denying everything.


EVGA have done nothing apart from sticking to the warranty and don't fall for the PR stunts they pulled saying they will replace any faulty cards due to the game breaking them, the game didn't break them but EGVAs FTW3 cards have a design fault, if they wanted to be the nice guys they would have recalled all cards with the issue and replaced them for all customers with the cards that have the design fault with new designed ones without this fault and the other faults these cards have like load balancing on the power connectors and slot. They have not even admitted it is their fault at any point or they have cards with a fault.

They have done nothing but replace some cards 4 times for some people with the same fault and cost some $200/EURO in costs each RMA to send it back to them and some have spent over $800 to $1000 in postage for RMA so far ($1000 in a few months of owning the card and can you imagine the ones with 3080s FTW3 with this fault ?, their RMAs have cost more than the card now). Seriously no one should be giving them any form of credit and any company that behaves this way with a faulty item they sell. This says a lot about them and will be avoided for good now, wait till the ones that have the issue when the warranty runs out what they will say, sorry no warranty but you can pay us to fix it or sorry we can't do anything now and wash their hands of it.


If this happened to any of us on here the forums would be in a riot as they are on EVGAs forums for many months with people with this issue, but they are silient about even replying to people on their own forums and making the fanboys reply well RMA it, forgetting it's costing silly money to send it back to them as they don't pay for the postage and insurance. Geeze really credit.. They deserve a kick in the rear and a class action lawsuit to get peoples money back on the RMAs or offer to pay people back the postage and insurance with every card that has these faults.
 
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EVGA have done nothing apart from sticking to the warranty and don't fall for the PR stunts they pulled saying they will replace any faulty cards due to the game breaking them, the game didn't break them but EGVAs FTW3 cards have a design fault, if they wanted to be the nice guys they would have recalled all cards with the issue and replaced them for all customers with the cards that have the design fault with new designed ones without this fault and the other faults these cards have like load balancing on the power connectors and slot. They have not even admitted it is their fault at any point or they have cards with a fault.

They have done nothing but replace some cards 4 times for some people with the same fault and cost some $200/EURO in costs each RMA to send it back to them and some have spent over $800 to $1000 in postage for RMA so far ($1000 in a few months of owning the card and can you imagine the ones with 3080s FTW3 with this fault ?, their RMAs have cost more than the card now). Seriously no one should be giving them any form of credit and any company that behaves this way with a faulty item they sell. This says a lot about them and will be avoided for good now, wait till the ones that have the issue when the warranty runs out what they will say, sorry no warranty but you can pay us to fix it or sorry we can't do anything now and wash their hands of it.


If this happened to any of us on here the forums would be in a riot as they are on EVGAs forums for many months with people with this issue, but they are silient about even replying to people on their own forums and making the fanboys reply well RMA it, forgetting it's costing silly money to send it back to them as they don't pay for the postage and insurance. Geeze really credit.. They deserve a kick in the rear and a class action lawsuit to get peoples money back on the RMAs or offer to pay people back the postage and insurance with every card that has these faults.

How is it costing $200 to RMA it? They cant be charging to repair given its an RMA and postage does not cost anywhere near that. Just curious how we are getting to that figure?
 
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How is it costing $200 to RMA it? They cant be charging to repair given its an RMA and postage does not cost anywhere near that. Just curious how we are getting to that figure?
In USA and South America it is costing that in postage and insurance on the expensive item, also countries around there are having to send to their USA RMA centre, read the EVGA forums, this is what they are saying there it's costing them to send them to EVGA as they want the item insured and sent by only their approved postal methods. This is why I'm saying this is a bad joke when a person there states he had to RMA 4 times at over $200 a pop, he's not making it up either , everytime one died he posted on the forums and was replaced and so on and a member there a long time and then others are saying the same. EVGA should setup the pickup at their cost for such issues and come on after second RMA they should have done that forget about third and forth ones.
 
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In USA and South America it is costing that in postage and insurance on the expensive item, also countries around there are having to send to their USA RMA centre, read the EVGA forums, this is what they are saying there it's costing them to send them to EVGA as they want the item insured and sent by only their approved postal methods. This is why I'm saying this is a bad joke when a person there states he had to RMA 4 times at over $200 a pop, he's not making it up either , everytime one died he posted on the forums and was replaced and so on and a member there a long time and then others are saying the same. EVGA should be setup the pickup at their cost for such issues and come on after second RMA they should have done that forget about third and forth ones.


Or just drop the gpu off at the store you bought it from

well, if you bought your gpu direct from overseas than rma cost for shipping is the risk you take - maybe you some a bit of money buying from the usa and then you get smashed if it breaks lol
 
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But, but, Jayz2Shills says it's all down to the Amazon devs!

No, no, no, Jay2Shills say its all AMD's fault! Everything is AMD's fault. Its too warm today, AMD!

If this happened to any of us on here the forums would be in a riot as they are on EVGAs forums for many months with people with this issue, but they are silient about even replying to people on their own forums and making the fanboys reply well RMA it, forgetting it's costing silly money to send it back to them as they don't pay for the postage and insurance. Geeze really credit.. They deserve a kick in the rear and a class action lawsuit to get peoples money back on the RMAs or offer to pay people back the postage and insurance with every card that has these faults.

Oh I know back when they had those appallingly bad 1080 FTW's the official rep was going around saying we'll turn all those cards around in 24hrs no problem blah blah but when it came to contacting the RMA dept the reply I eventually got was basically you're having a laugh mate. Its all PR spin when push actually comes to shove, forget it. Wouldn't touch one of their cards again if you paid me.
 
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people here are forgetting there's a chip shortage and for every rma card that has to be replaced, there is one less available to sell to a consumer.

Also for those people whose card has blown they are sat for a month or so without a card to use while they go through the rma process. Hardly satisfactory for something that is so expensive
 
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people here are forgetting there's a chip shortage and for every rma card that has to be replaced, there is one less available to sell to a consumer.

Also for those people whose card has blown they are sat for a month or so without a card to use while they go through the rma process. Hardly satisfactory for something that is so expensive

No they are not. EVGA are cross shipping so its 2 to 3 days from reporting RMA to delivery of card.
 
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In USA and South America it is costing that in postage and insurance on the expensive item, also countries around there are having to send to their USA RMA centre, read the EVGA forums, this is what they are saying there it's costing them to send them to EVGA as they want the item insured and sent by only their approved postal methods. This is why I'm saying this is a bad joke when a person there states he had to RMA 4 times at over $200 a pop, he's not making it up either , everytime one died he posted on the forums and was replaced and so on and a member there a long time and then others are saying the same. EVGA should be setup the pickup at their cost for such issues and come on after second RMA they should have done that forget about third and forth ones.
EVGA is not refunding these costs once they get the card? If so that's not good at all.
 
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EU customers are getting charged customs in Germany when sending in RMA, it is what happens when you stick the value down on the forms. It happens the other way round to, parcel force are charging customers to have their replacements.

It doesn't help when their cards you buy here are all direct warranty, you cannot send it to the retailer unless you buy a pre-build. Their 3080's have power balancing issues as well, they don't reach the wattage specified, the XC models don't go near enough 350w. Only card worth buying is the kingpin, the rest are nerfed.
 
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I remember EVGA 1080 had no fuses, the mosfets Use to weld themselves to a pcb. Damn bad design .

Now 3090 going pop.
200$ to rma the 2k card. Madness.

And once cards out of warranty, the nuclear fallout that will follow.

Basically stay away from EVGA.
 

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I remember EVGA 1080 had no fuses, the mosfets Use to weld themselves to a pcb. Damn bad design .

Now 3090 going pop.
200$ to rma the 2k card. Madness.

And once cards out of warranty, the nuclear fallout that will follow.

Basically stay away from EVGA.

Same applies to the 1080 Ti FTW3?
 
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