ASUS GeForce GTX 590 3 GB

[cheesy999]

Obviously he doesn't, at least in terms of the 590. He jacked the thing up to 1.2v without understanding what the cards limit is. Nvidia clearly states the cards are not supposed to be run anywhere near that voltage.

You aren't even supposed to run a 580 at 1.2v, what made him think you could do that to two sandwiched together is baffling.

that is a good point, even an iphone will break if its asked to do things it wasn't designed for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S8sxpK4_iA&feature=player_detailpage#t=120s (yes i'm making lots of will it blend references lately)

 

[TheMailMan78]

No, it isn't.




Obviously he doesn't, at least in terms of the 590. He jacked the thing up to 1.2v without understanding what the cards limit is. Nvidia clearly states the cards are not supposed to be run anywhere near that voltage.

You aren't even supposed to run a 580 at 1.2v, what made him think you could do that to two sandwiched together is baffling.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/19192...590_why_some_have_gone_up_in_smoke/index.html

Calling a card junk because someone ran it will over voltage specification and blew it up is idiotic.

No defending an obviously flawed design is idiotic. But hey thats what fan boys do. Welcome to TPU by the way.

 

[cheesy999]

No defending an obviously flawed design is idiotic. But hey thats what fan boys do. Welcome to TPU by the way.

this person has no idea what he talking about, taking him seriously is much less fun then just going along with it

 

[TheMailMan78]

this person has no idea what he talking about, taking him seriously is much less fun then just going along with it

Problem is I'm right on this one. NVIDIA's power limiter failed or it was a bum fuse/resistor. Could be both. Ether way flawed design.

Again W1zz wasn't the only one. What don't you understand?

 

[cheesy999]

Problem is I'm right on this one. NVIDIA's power limiter failed or it was a bum fuse/resistor. Could be both. Ether way flawed design.

Again W1zz wasn't the only one. What don't you understand?

i understand everything, but arguing with trolls is stupid where pretending to take them seriously means you can have much more fun with them, just pretend to agree with 74 and hope he goes away if he bothering you that much

 

[TheMailMan78]

i understand everything, but arguing with trolls is stupid where pretending to take them seriously means you can have much more fun with them, just pretend to agree with 74 and hope he goes away if he bothering you that much

Oh I though you were referring to me

Honestly I don't think hes a troll. Hes a butt hurt Nvidiot.

 

[thedude74]

No defending an obviously flawed design is idiotic. But hey thats what fan boys do. Welcome to TPU by the way.

I wouldn't buy a 590 on a bet, but I also wouldn't blame the card for user error. Let us all know when one blows up using the correct parameters and maybe you'd have a point.

Put it this way, my motherboard allows me to crank the voltage on my CPU well beyond what Intel recommends. If I do so and it fries the CPU, is that bad motherboard design, bad CPU design, or am I to blame?

Again W1zz wasn't the only one. What don't you understand?

Does it really matter how many people it happened to if they ALL ran the cards outside the limits of what they were designed to do?

What part of, "the cards aren't designed to be run with that much voltage" don't you understand?

 

[thedude74]

i understand everything, but arguing with trolls is stupid where pretending to take them seriously means you can have much more fun with them, just pretend to agree with 74 and hope he goes away if he bothering you that much

How am I the troll here?

 

[TheMailMan78]

I wouldn't buy a 590 on a bet, but I also wouldn't blame the card for user error. Let us all know when one blows up using the correct parameters and maybe you'd have a point.

Put it this way, my motherboard allows me to crank the voltage on my CPU well beyond what Intel recommends. If I do so and it fries the CPU, is that bad motherboard design, bad CPU design, or am I to blame?



Does it really matter how many people it happened to if they ALL ran the cards outside the limits of what they were designed to do?

What part of, "the cards aren't designed to be run with that much voltage" don't you understand?

It hurts doesn't it. So many little hearts were broken by the 590....poof your dreams are gone.

These are not just "people". These are professional reviewers that have YEARS of experience with OC GPU's.

Push out. It won't hurt as bad.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

Oh I though you were referring to me

Honestly I don't think hes a troll. Hes a butt hurt Nvidiot.

your such a ati fanboy its discusting. we can easily call you a radiot so stop referring to everyone who owns a nvidia card or who buys one a nvidiot, makes you sound like a little ignorant bitch.

 

[TheMailMan78]

your such a ati fanboy its discusting. we can easily call you a radiot so stop referring to everyone who owns a nvidia card or who buys one a nvidiot, makes you sound like a little ignorant bitch.

And heres butt hurt #2! And call me whatever you want. My dreams and hope don't ride on the back of a flawed GPU.

 

[thedude74]

It hurts doesn't it. So many little hearts were broken by the 590....poof your dreams are gone.

The 6990 is a better card...so what? What I run is better than either one of them. That has nothing to do with this discussion. I was never in the running to buy either one.

Blaming Nvidia or the card because a few testers decided to overvolt the card well beyond what it's designed to handle is what fanboys do.

And yes, they are just people. Yes, they have years of experience, but they had NONE with this card and clearly didn't know what voltage's were acceptable.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

the 24 sided dice that i roll to get my review data fell on the card and caused a short circuit

A crit miss most probably

 

[MxPhenom 216]

And heres butt hurt #2! And call me whatever you want. My dreams and hope don't ride on the back of a flawed GPU.

Oh so its a flawed GPU just because if you overvolt it, which is already voiding warrenties of some vendors, that it will blow up?? NO

We all thought that we would never see a dual GF110 card released out on the market. However, to our surprise nvidia was able to do something with it. Just because OH WOW i overvolted my GPU and it blew up, doesnt make it a design flaw. Cards are set to a default voltage and you can tweak it at your own risk. No where did nvidia say running it at 1.2v, or whatever the hell people are pumping the voltage, is safe. The 590 is a hell of a card and i know for a fact people will agree with this. Look at the stuff other then performance. noise, temperature, and efficiency. Its better in each one of those aspects and its only slow by a max of 5% then the 6990 and even then it can rise up and beat it out.

You can keep on bashing this card, but if you knew how to make it better, why aren't you an engineer at nvidia??

 

[cheesy999]

And heres butt hurt #2! And call me whatever you want. My dreams and hope don't ride on the back of a flawed GPU.

don't think he supports nvidia as he's switched sides since the username, running a 6950 if i remember correctly

 

[TheMailMan78]

Oh so its a flawed GPU just because if you overvolt it, which is already voiding warrenties of some vendors, that it will blow up?? NO

BIOS should have had the correct voltage limit. Didn't ship with the correct drivers should I go on NvidiaFTLose?

 

[MxPhenom 216]

don't think he supports nvidia as he's switched sides since the username, running a 6950 if i remember correctly

no i havent gone to a 6950 yet. still debating it

 

[newtekie1]

Well according to his review it wasn't extreme at all

For a Fermi card, it is extreme. Again, I point out the fact that the previous Fermi cards limitted the voltages to 1.087v, and they did it for a reason.

Its not two gpu's sandwiched, its side by side. I dont think Nvidia have used the sandwich design since the 7950gx2.

9800GX2 and GTX295 were both sandwich designs, the GTX295 was later revised to a single PCB.

No defending an obviously flawed design is idiotic. But hey thats what fan boys do. Welcome to TPU by the way.

You haven't set the max voltage on your CPU and RAM yet to make sure the CPU/Mobo and RAM aren't flawed designs yet.

Calling something a flawed design because it fails when it is run way out of spec is idiotic.

 

[TheMailMan78]

no i havent gone to a 6950 yet. still debating it

You should get a 590! I hear they have the best bang for the buck.

You haven't set the max voltage on your CPU and RAM yet to make sure the CPU/Mobo and RAM aren't flawed designs yet.

I have.....and guess what......they didnt blow up.

 

[W1zzard]

my motherboard allows me to crank the voltage on my CPU well beyond what Intel recommends. If I do so and it fries the CPU

not gonna happen unless you use like 50% more (educated guess, probably needs more). and not within ~2 minutes like it happened on the 590

 

[cheesy999]

no i havent gone to a 6950 yet. still debating it

i see your problem, changing the gfx would mean changing your username to amdintelftw and that would be seriously confusing

 

[MxPhenom 216]

i see your problem, changing the gfx would mean changing your username to amdintelftw and that would be seriously confusing

no i dont care about my name.

 

[cheesy999]

no i dont care about my name.

fair point

 

[newtekie1]

I have.....and guess what......they didnt blow up.

Really, you stuck the stock cooler on your processor, selected the maximum voltage available for everything in the BIOS, and then ran a stess testing program, and nothing blew up? I doubt it.

BIOS should have had the correct voltage limit.

This I somewhat agree with, besides that users should know that just because you can doesn't mean you should, but nVidia should have made the BIOS limit the voltage to 1.087v like the previous Fermi cards, they should have done the same thing with the GTX580/570.

However, just because they didn't put the limit in the BIOS doesn't mean the card's design is flawed.

not gonna happen unless you use like 50% more (educated guess, probably needs more). and not within ~2 minutes like it happened on the 590

Yeah, but if I select the 2.0v option on my RAM, I'll probably kill the IMC in the processor, and probably the RAM too...

 

[Deleted member 67555]

The 6990 is a better card...so what? What I run is better than either one of them.

Wow REALLY? Your the first to ever make my Ignore list for extreme ignorance
I'm with MM this card is Garbage....It's an Enthusiast Card...EN-THOO-ZZ-EE-ASS-TAH
It's not a mid level card it's not a work station Card it's supposed to be HIGH END!!

GARBAGE!!!
If the 6990 did the same thing I'd call it Garbage too!