Anyone notice this in the techpowerup review?
Lol fantastic, cheeky monkeys
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*The GTX590 Club*
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Lol fantastic, cheeky monkeys
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Sweclockers used 1.025v at 580 stock clocks when it went 'Pop', hardly what you call high voltage or clocks.
Thats also ignoring the fact some cards have popped at stock settings.
Clearly it's an EpicFail.
After 1 day it was fixed and only reviewers should have suffered from the problem so a lot of people may be calling it a epic fail but i think its being blown out of preportion from the red corner... to disguise the fact that neither gpu's outperform each other (at stock, overclocked its a different matter and thats when the 590 becomes the clear winner)
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£66 more expensive than the 6990, that's compared from the cheapest 6990 on here.
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To be honest, nobody should get 6990 nor GTX590 at the moment if they have a crossfire/sli capable board (Crossfire 6950/6970, SLI GTX570/GTX580 etc).
6990 is however worth considering once manufacturer release custom coolers with their card, as for GTX590...not sure how long until the reliability issue will get sorted out.
But bottomline is I think GPUs this generation simple uses too much power to make them not that great to use for a dual-GPU single card...I look forward to the 28nm GPUs that's coming out next gen...want to see how much lower power consuming and now much less heat they generate, and how well they do when two of them is being put onto a single card.
6990 is however worth considering once manufacturer release custom coolers with their card, as for GTX590...not sure how long until the reliability issue will get sorted out.
But bottomline is I think GPUs this generation simple uses too much power to make them not that great to use for a dual-GPU single card...I look forward to the 28nm GPUs that's coming out next gen...want to see how much lower power consuming and now much less heat they generate, and how well they do when two of them is being put onto a single card.
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Mmmm, i might try 3 way SLi with the 590's
Then again maybe not LOL.
Then again maybe not LOL.
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Sorry I actually think your delusional.
590 is still not a good clocker and it still hasn't been fixed.
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Can only Quad-SLI, each card is 2 GPU's, 2 cards is 4. Until they start writing drivers for 6 GPU's you'll only be able to use 2 GTX 590's.
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I think he might be talking about adding a 590 to a 580.
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thats crazy talk
Overclocking and overvolting do void warranty contract wise (unless the manufacturers clearly stated otherwise), but people have always been thinking they can get away with it since once a card is fried, there's no way to tell of it's been overclocked/overvolted or not.
Overclocking and overvolting do void warranty contract wise (unless the manufacturers clearly stated otherwise), but people have always been thinking they can get away with it since once a card is fried, there's no way to tell of it's been overclocked/overvolted or not.
so what about MSI and EVGA cards that come bundled with an endorsed OC util ?,
" oh here's an overclocking tool we have made, but don't use it because it could void your warranty "
any overclocking/overvoltaging can void your manufacturer's product warranty.
that comment has come from nvidia direct by the looks of it, asking you in a polite way not to overclock your card as it stands a good chance of borking.
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Overclocking and overvolting do void warranty contract wise (unless the manufacturers clearly stated otherwise), but people have always been thinking they can get away with it since once a card is fried, there's no way to tell of it's been overclocked/overvolted or not.
Overclocking is mainstream these days, and manufacturers know this with some actively encouraging users to do it in their marketing and even build software for you to do so, AIB's even overclock and overvolt reference cards and sell them pre-overclocked without actually doing anything special to the card.
Manufacturers usually build safety mechanisms or leave a good margin or factor of safety within the components in the card to prevent it frying, as such in recent years you had to really really abuse the card with extreme volts and high temps before you run into trouble.
The ability to safely over clock a card is expected, but the 590 ends that trend as it barely manages to run safely at stock, which is a major disappointment.
With the margins of safety so thin on the 590, what happens when your gaming on a hot day? GPU temp goes up, power consumption then goes up due leakage, can the components handle that?
Just fine I imagine.
In the same way some car manufacturers void warranty on drive-train if you use launch control more than X number of times.
Nvidia's disclaimers about overclocking dont apply to each manufacturer.
They said that it 'may void your manufacturer warranty', which is absolutely correct.
As far as I know, there are only two brands that fully cover overclocking on their warranty - Asus and MSI.