Wednesday, September 1st 2021
EVGA Reveals that Bad Soldering Was the Culprit behind Bricked RTX 3090 Cards
When Amazon Studios released the closed beta for their upcoming New World MMO users begun to report that the game was causing catastrophic failure of their RTX 3090 graphics cards. This issue appears to have disproportionately affected EVGA cards with initial analysis indicating that the cause could have been with the fan controller malfunctioning evident by the bad readings received from third-party monitoring tools. This behavior was determined to not be the cause of card failures with monitoring working correctly when using the EVGA Precision X1 software. EVGA found that the fan controller issue was related to noise on the communication bus which their software could filter out and have released a micro-controller update that fixes monitoring with third-party tools.
The cause of the dead cards has now been determined by EVGA to be the result of a rare soldering issue limited to a small batch of cards. EVGA performed X-ray analysis on a selection of broken cards returned to them and found that the soldering around the MOSFET circuits had "poor workmanship". EVGA also confirmed that this issue was only present on early production runs in 2020 and affects less than 1 percent of all the RTX 3090 cards manufactured by the company. Amazon Game Studios have also added a frame limiter to New World that will ensure this issue won't appear in new versions of the game.
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PC World
The cause of the dead cards has now been determined by EVGA to be the result of a rare soldering issue limited to a small batch of cards. EVGA performed X-ray analysis on a selection of broken cards returned to them and found that the soldering around the MOSFET circuits had "poor workmanship". EVGA also confirmed that this issue was only present on early production runs in 2020 and affects less than 1 percent of all the RTX 3090 cards manufactured by the company. Amazon Game Studios have also added a frame limiter to New World that will ensure this issue won't appear in new versions of the game.
EVGAAll of the cards were earlier production run cards manufactured in 2020. Under an X-ray analysis, they appear to have "poor workmanship" on soldering around the card's MOSFET circuits that powered the impacted cards.
59 Comments on EVGA Reveals that Bad Soldering Was the Culprit behind Bricked RTX 3090 Cards
This is what is shitty about this all situation, all the media is covering up this thing, no one talks about it. If it were Gigabyte or MSI we wouldn't hear the end of it.
That, and there is a special type of EVGA customer called 'Elites' that are very elite at sending cards back and forth :) They paid the premium beforehand, EVGA's fine with it. So on EVGA forums, the problems look like they always exist, even if majority of cards are OK.That was the first writing on the wall after we learned we got Samsung 8nm alongside abysmal memory capacity. Not. With. A. Ten. Foot. Pole.