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power circuitry gets hotter—up to 106° C, in our measurements—but we have no sense that such temperatures constitute a problem
So techreport concludes:
1) cards dont go down to ~550mhz while gameing, overhead is big enough for it to not be needed.
2) the temp sensors dont lie, pr say, even though parts of the card are hotter than what they report, thats normal. 106° C power circuitry is apparntly safe enough for opperations of the card.
Is that what they conclude? Is that also "all" that they conclude?
4) Newer drivers no longer kill the cards.we found zero performance differences between the drivers we used in the review and the public 269.91 package
We tested the GTX 590 with somewhat newer drivers, apparently updated to fix that problem, and didn't run into any sparks, flames, or even smoke.
Cards still died though, a few days after release
i thought it went down in more "demanding" games where the GPU would really be stressed. you also can't help but notice a lot of reviewers have wide open cases
most people seem to think it's OK to use drivers that were on the CD the card came with. i did not know using shipped drivers have the potential to fry your $700 graphics card.
You are right in that if the GPU's are stressed to far or the power pull is too high, the card's safety features will kick in. Furmark, for example is notorious for that. And people buying GTX590s retail usually go for the latest drivers available from the Nvidia website. __________________
I guess now that the huddle is over it's damage control time
Need a little more detail than that. And what EXACTLY went down during these so called incidents.
You are right in that if the GPU's are stressed to far or the power pull is too high, the card's safety features will kick in. Furmark, for example is notorious for that.
And people buying GTX590s retail usually go for the latest drivers available from the Nvidia website.
I guess now that the huddle is over it's damage control time
Oh, that's pretty funny.
Although it was somewhat interesting to read it kinda seems strange how they only redid bench's on games that aren't even gonna make the 590 break a sweat....Kinda makes a person wonder! The comments are also somewhat amuzing also.
And wonder, and wonder and wonder, til people start inventing rumors.
So what your saying is don't purchase a 590 if you wanna play any games that will stress the gpu too hard? So purchase it for the older games that don't require alot of power? Unless you can live with the degraded performance that is. So in other words if your a real enthusiust you wouldn't touch a 590 unless your were given one for free?
No, I'm fairly certain that's your own conclusion, not what I'm saying at all and you probably knew that though.
Even the guys over at the evga forums are somewhat confused why the 590 is even here. Some way it's to compete for the single card crown. Some say it wasn't designed to compete with the 6990 at all. Some say it was created just for the fanboys to keep the sheep in line. Some say it was created to run cool and quiet and provide single card 3d surround support.
The 590 seems to have potential it's just the initial execution wasn't correctly implemented.
Not after the whole 6970 x fire fiasco I went through. I had better stability with the shipped drivers than anything on amd site for months.
Fact remains though that tested and shipped drivers should not physically destroy your card.
Nvidia damage control alert!! Stop the presses!
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Nvidia damage control alert!! Stop the presses!
How is different tech sites reporting fried cards "Rumors"? They either are or aren't dead.
This Tech Report post hardly does much to reassure consumers of GTX 590's temperatures. The 112 C temperatures in one test were apparently grossly overrated, because in the Tech Report's findings, their card only hits a 'safe' 106 C (!!).
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I certainly wouldn't jump to the conclusion that Nvidia's retail/WHQL drivers are throttling the cards. However I wouldn't read one report like this and suddenly feel like there is absolutely no problem whatsoever with GTX 590's thermal monitoring, at least on older drivers.
Nvidia better get their driver team functional. Bad drivers frying cards is not a good sales tactic.
For the price it cost they should have least went the EXTRA mile and put higher VRM's then the cards needed!