Monday, September 13th 2021
Even As Graphics Card Prices Skyrocket, Build Quality on the Decline?
So you finally fork out four-figures for a performance-segment graphics card that had a $350 predecessor a couple of generations ago, and what do you find? Misaligned thermal pads, poorly installed cooling, and other build quality flaws. Reddit and other social media platforms show a noticeable increase in people with fairly premium graphics cards that have manufacturing defects that can lower the product life. One such user, kamaloo92, posted pictures of an ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti OC with a missing block of thermal pads over a row of memory chips. GDDR6X chips are capable of heating in the high-90s Celsius, and a poorly cooled block of memory can cause artifacting in the long run. This, from a company that prides itself in its manufacturing standards.
Another horror story comes from obamaprism3, who posted pictures of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition with a poorly installed memory thermal pad that was so placed so far off, that it overlapped with the cooler's main base, posing severe risk of overheating and performance loss to the GPU. Staying with Founders Edition, a user named antonyjeweet discovered a worker's finger cot stuck under a memory thermal pad of their insanely expensive RTX 3090 Founders Edition card. Recently, we did the story of a PowerColor RX 6700 XT with protective film over thermal pads still in place.
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Another horror story comes from obamaprism3, who posted pictures of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition with a poorly installed memory thermal pad that was so placed so far off, that it overlapped with the cooler's main base, posing severe risk of overheating and performance loss to the GPU. Staying with Founders Edition, a user named antonyjeweet discovered a worker's finger cot stuck under a memory thermal pad of their insanely expensive RTX 3090 Founders Edition card. Recently, we did the story of a PowerColor RX 6700 XT with protective film over thermal pads still in place.
31 Comments on Even As Graphics Card Prices Skyrocket, Build Quality on the Decline?
with this amount sold they can cover it up
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_cot
I am waiting for the latter to crop up.
Charlie Chaplin - Factory Scene - Modern Times (1936) - YouTube
I really do genuinely feel for all the factory workers being worked raw to the bone to pump out GPUs and other hardware. Mistakes happen, to err is to human.
Pretty much why I wait for the dust to settle before I buy expensive hardware now I do not live to keep ups/ fedx/... in business with rma shipping costs
20 series space invader deaths were an eye opener lol
GPU mfgr's taking every possibility to MILK the consumer even moar with cheaper parts and/or super speedy or non-existent QA/QC to get them out the door while prices are sky-high, which only serves to increase their margins....
TSK TSK TSK..SHAME ON THEM :mad:
Jr. scalpers are born
They pretty much know someone will pay twice as much as they did at bestbuy/ micro center/... the closest to msrp there is, all they had to do is stand in line
Some even pay people to do it as well don't hate the miners hate the game it's a sellers market.