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*The GTX590 Club*

Some may see this as trolling, but it really isn't...
I think its about time something like this happend to Nvidia (I mean again) as I recall they havn't released a properly working dual GPU card since the 7950GX2... Correct me if i'm wrong but the 9800GX2 overheated on stock clocks, the GTX 295 overheated on stock clocks and the GTX 590 Explodes (not to mention overheating on stock clocks)...

Serves them right. This is one nvidia Dual GPU I will not be buying
 
^ Apart from one driver issue with the GTX 295 which altered the auto fan speed there have been no issues with the GTX 295 to my knowledge???.

Granted it ran a little hot but thats all.
 
kmufc77 said:
^ Apart from one driver issue with the GTX 295 which altered the auto fan speed there have been no issues with the GTX 295 to my knowledge???.

Granted it ran a little hot but thats all.
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I have only owned one but I got 110C at one point. Too hot for anything to be usable for a long period of time, its sat in my wardrobe now, and has been there since I bought a couple of 4870's about a week after buying that. Although I can't speak for the revised version, never used one of those
 
Hmm reading this article thought it says half of the issues are rumors :rolleyes::

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20677

All of which leads us back to exactly where we started, with no evidence of basic problems in the GTX 590's operation beyond, you know, the initial exploding drivers. Heh. We do have some evidence of additional, sloppily made insinuations of problems, which I suppose shouldn't be too surprising.
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Sure... relying on a driver so you won't burn your card ... makes everything else a rumor ...

Jeez ... people should try to understand the main idea behind all this drivers crap ...

The drivers are only "hiding" the faulty design the card has ...period ...

And about the "some oc space" ... yeah, that would be great, from 607 to 690 ... ok ... the problem is that 90% of the people know what is "under the hood"... so those 690 are far from "wow" :)

But ok, maybe it's me ... i really have high hopes for a £600 card :x
 
Toilet-Duck said:
Hmm reading this article thought it says half of the issues are rumors :rolleyes::

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20677
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I'm not sure if the rolleyes are at people talking up rumours, or at the article.

THe problem is, even IF they made a mistake with the driver, forgetting to enable low enough overcurrent protection, they included this driver in every retail 590gtx, so anyone who buys one can risk killing their card using a driver provided to them. That, on its own, is a truly epic failure on its own. The fact that 4 new drivers have been released since, all essentially increasing this level of "protection" but also apparently increasing the frequency and number of programs that cause downclocking, it was reviewed in a state with drivers that aren't safe.

Even if they release a completely safe driver, AND they magically have every user install it and none of the "unsafe" drivers, they'll have a card that is catagorically not as advertised anymore. If they released it as a 550Mhz card, that might sometimes clock to 607mhz when it can, that would be fine, its less often than hoped but no less than promised, a card that can't run at 607Mhz stock as standard is flat out false advertising.
 
I've been checking foruns... and 2 more 590 were dead ... stock ... and usually playing BF BC2 ...

So we can conclude that the problem is in the game and Nvidia needs to launch a 4th or 5th driver for the 590 to correct this ... as ... blocking the game .... :P eheheh
 
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