An evaluation of useless EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 playing cards that failed whereas enjoying Amazon’s New World sport point out a uncommon soldering challenge restricted to a small batch of playing cards is accountable, an organization spokesman instructed PCWorld.
EVGA mentioned it acquired about two dozen useless GeForce RTX 3090 playing cards believed to have failed from enjoying the New World beta. All of the playing cards had been earlier manufacturing run playing cards manufactured in 2020. Under an X-ray evaluation, they seem to have “poor workmanship” on soldering across the card’s MOSFET circuits that powered the impacted playing cards.
Gamers went into minor panic in early July when stories began coming that the favored beta model of Amazon’s New World MMO was killing graphics playing cards. At the time, the brunt of the stories revolved round EVGA’s GeForce RTX 3090 GPUs, though there have been unconfirmed stories of playing cards dying from totally different producers and totally different makes of playing cards as properly, together with each Radeon and older GeForce playing cards.
EVGA mentioned all the failures reported to the corporate had been confined to GeForce RTX 3090 playing cards. The firm mentioned it instantly shipped alternative playing cards to affected avid gamers moderately than look ahead to the failed playing cards to be returned.
The firm declined to say what number of GeForce RTX 3090 playing cards it has offered, however did characterize this small batch as considerably lower than 1 % of the overall.
The firm has since issued a micro-controller replace that, when paired with up to date variations of the third-party instruments, will appropriately present the fan controller working correctly. To get hold of the most recent micro-controller replace, EVGA mentioned clients ought to obtain the most recent model of EVGA Precision X1, which ought to point out if a micro-controller replace is required for the GPU or not.
