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With all the talk about 590 SLI certified motherboards, was I the only one hoping for some 590 SLI love in this article?
Rampage 3 Extreme and SLI love is incoming.Originally Posted by kalniel
With all the talk about 590 SLI certified motherboards, was I the only one hoping for some 590 SLI love in this article?
did you run into any throttling issues? and *gulp* any tinkering with the voltage? does the sliders have the potential to go above 1.05?
It's 'Toe the line', not 'Tow the line' on your final page.
Looks as though AMD have squarely won this challenge - it would seem to me that for those with more cash than sense, the fastest card out of the box is the one that imparts the most bragging rights. Anyone overclocking the bejesus out of their over-priced card to make it run almost as well as the competitor solution at a far greater power draw and heat level is probably missing the point of dropping so much cash in the first place. Of course, anyone who cares more about the performance will go for a bona fide dual card solution and resolve the heat and power issues themselves.
I'm no fanboy, don't get me wrong, but all the graphs bar one so far seem to indicate that AMD have emerged victorious this time.
Still, as a consumer, it's good to see some competitiveness at most levels of the graphics card market, and pushing the 590s to approximately the same level as the 6990/6990OC can only be a good thing to keep the market on its toes!
Tarinder (29-03-2011)
From another forum....
Well, it had to happen to someone here and it finally has.
Zotac GTX 590 *** AT DEFAULT VOLTAGE ***
BANG!!!!!
I'm so F*****G P****D at this moment I could scream. I bought it from another site on the day of release. It turned up Saturday, so by that time I'd seen and read the whole fiasco on the web with the cards dying... so naturally I said to myself, "Don't be an idiot, give it a few days before you try clocking it."
Well it's now Monday night and while running 3dMark11 an hour ago I noticed it got really quiet... I leapt for the psu cable. But no. Crack! Poof! Stinking smoke!
I really thought my whole system was gone, the flash was that bright. Thankfully no, I stuck in an old 8800gtx I had and everything booted fine. But the GTX590 is toast, part of the pcb has melted around what looked like a small group of resistors in the lower middle of the card, which have blown, and there's a scorch mark on the other side of the card coming out from under the cooler shroud down to the pci-e fingers.
Believe me the RMA email I've just sent off to E***er was less than gentlemanly. That scared the ever loving c**p out of me. How the hell did Nvidia think they could ship these cards in this state!
PS. Before anyone asks, I dont have a camera, and I've already stuck the bloody thing back in its box for when I get my RMA number tomorrow. Good Riddance!!!
Lets just wait for another nVidia market recall, erh... may be they will just roll out a v2 and replace all those v1 models.
What a cheap experiment for nVidia. LOL
Tool Box and a Mouse
Genius
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that dead 590
Got to give gigabyte some love for having an RMA centre in Milton Keynes (because its in the UK; not because its MK). If I'm not mistaken that must be one of the few companies that do now.
At least if this one goes poof you get the excellent local service coupled with their helpful forums.
I like the heat warning sticker
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