Manufacturing fault to blame for those bricked RTX 3090 cards when playing Amazon's New World game

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Yup, I knew the cards weren't right. Amazon doesn't get off scott free either, however, because it's stressing them unnecessarily. It's the equivalent of putting the accelerator pedal to the floor in your car all the time and then slamming on the brakes all the time as well. Yeah, it should work properly, but the car will wear out much quicker. And you'll likely crash it, too...

Poor PCB Soldering Design Impacted EVGA's GeForce RTX 3090 Graphics Cards, Manufacturer Confirms

EVGA has finally confirmed the main cause behind its GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards getting damaged and it's related to the PCB design.

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Amazon Games insists New World is safe to play despite reports of the MMO bricking some 3090 GPUs

This is not good for all people that have been test there new game https://www.gamesradar.com/amazon-mmo-new-world-reportedly-bricking-some-geforce-3090-graphics-cards/

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At the price those cards are (even before the Ebay rip-off pricing from some people wanting to make extra pennies) you'd expect them to manage to play one over-demanding game without falling to bits....

 

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Yes, quite. Looks like quality control took a back seat with some of them.

At least EVGA are giving their renowned good customer service to fix the problem for affected customers.