NVIDIA RMA experience

[tintin82]

Hi all,

I have a 3090 that I am considering RMA'ing due to high memory temps.

I have a fix, that being a Lego stand, and the card is cool and quiet with this solution, but without it memory rockets to 112c and 100% fan with throttling.

I noted my experience here.

Part of me want to keep it as there is only minor coil whine and the lego stand works great with mem maxing at 96c and its so quiet, but the other side wants to rma as this is not acceptable for such a high end card. Aware the worst case is that I get a card back with as high temps and coil whine to boot.

Anyone have a recent experience of rma of a 3090? What was the returned item like? How long did it take?

Thanks

 

[tintin82]

I use a prop on my 3090FE. Always expected to from day 1. Mem temps hit 96c during rendering if I run the card at stock 350W in warm weather. Same as yours. tbh I think they will just return it to you claiming its not faulty.

Without a prop does your fan ramp up to 100% and the mem hit 112C before thermal throttling? That's what mine does without a prop. With the prop it's ace, cool and quiet.