Hey, it's not like there are any available on the market anyway

Maybe that’s their plan? First wave are nothing but issues so the bots can buy it and the second wave will get to the real users

Obligatory "my Microcenter has a bunch actually."

:( i got the first wave lol luckily no noticeable issues.

If only there were people on the internet that would run tests and tell us if we should avoid the reference cards

…so when do we get wave 2?

How dare you use logic!

This happened with my 1070. They sent me some thermal pads and had me download a different bios for the gpu. Now that im thinking about it there is probably a reason that card died.... F

What do you use it for?

also am guessing you think mc are everywhere right

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That's the joke, I do happen to have one like 15 minutes away though

I lucked out with one on the best buy website. Though it's an XFX and not an AMD reference model thankfully.

You had to open up and fix the GPU yourself? Yeah fuck that I'd want a new one or them to do it with an extended warranty.

K. But do you know how many stores they have

So it could be worse?

Not that many, are you like upset about my joke or just asking?

No. You be shocked how many people think there everywhere. To the point of. You telll them the reality and it curse word replies.

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I dont really understand where you're coming from with this, I made the joke because I know they aren't everywhere...

I said once know. I pointed out how people think Mc are everywhere

Okay?

I have decades of computer repair experience under my belt so that wasnt a big deal. If I sent it in I would have been without a card for weeks. It was thousands of cards that got hit with it so they didnt have them to send prior to you sending yours in like more recent problems have done. This was like 6 years ago.

My EVGA 1070 was one of the ones without thermal pads on the VRMs or whatever the issue was, it started artifacting and freaking out after a few weeks. Usable, but clearly messed up.

It's why I will miss EVGA, called them up and they shipped me a new card immediately (by time the card starting taking a dump the issue was known) and told me to use the defective one until the new one came in and then ship out the old one with a paid return label. I know being a fanboy of a brand is dumb, but damn they are the one company (at least for GPU's) I'd buy every time no matter what.

That wasn't even close to my experience. I called them after the issue was known and told them I was having all the issues and they told me that I could either send the card in for them to fix and send it back or have them send out the pad and email me a link to download a file to install. I obviously took the option where I could continue to use my computer. I even asked if there was any way for them to send me a fixed model and I send it back and they said they just didnt have the inventory because so many cards were hit with it. I haven't purchased anything EVGA since.

EVGA was top tier in customer service. I went through 3 2080Ti's with defective micron memory. They cross shipped for every card next day shipping. I finally ended up with Samsung memory and zero problems after.

How come AMD themselves made such a faux pas while their third party devs had adequate cooling? I kind of get it because the reference cards are always so generic and modestly designed where as vendors throw fans and exaggerated cooling fins everywhere.

If they didn’t have the inventory, that response seems pretty reasonable to me….no reason to ditch a GPU brand imo. At least they offered solutions that still would fix the problem.

How big are the coolers? Same size as Nvidia or smaller?

In my experience, AMD reference cards are usually over-designed and highly tunable, whether you want to tune for speed or efficiency. They might screw up a cooler every now and again, but reference cards get aftermarket coolers made for them. The Tahiti reference board is a good example.

Bigger I'd say. The temps have been fine, and I've been gaming for basically 12 hours now.

Did it catch on fire though? Amateurs.

RIP to all the resellers and buyers

Local only, so not really a big help to those of us on the internet at large.

seemed like more of a brag than a joke

Having just installed a 4080 - I simply can't image the coolers being larger that that!!! LOL

The 4080 I installed is just under 14" long. Not sure if it's considered 3 or 4 cards wide.

I heard that 7000's series are more limited compared to 6000s and 5000s series of and GPUs.

Yooo my 1070 has the same issue!

So glad I sold mine and got a 4090 lol

EVGA was probably killed by miners. Way too easy to send back GPUs that died of thermals.

Youre probably fun to be around.

I mean, last Nvidia card I had was a 2070, so my reference is probably outdated. Definitely 3 slots wide though.