nVidia 600 Series GPU Owners

[MiRai]

No idea how real this recall is at the moment but... just figured I would throw this out there. If it turns out to be BS then this thread will be deleted.

http://videocardz.com/33185/nvidia-t...0-series-cards
http://tech.pnosker.com/2012/05/21/n...r-video-cards/
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2247295
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphic...ics_Cards.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...graphics-cards


Apparently putting these new nVidia cards under "heavy load" leads to degradation of performance over time. Multiboxing would be one thing that definitely puts these cards under heavy load.

I'll try to keep this thread up-to-date as much as I can.

UPDATE: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphic...gradation.html

Nvidia Corp. on Monday denied plans to recall GeForce GTX products based on the GK104 graphics processing units due to rumoured eventual performance degradation. The company claims that the rumours are incorrect and the graphics products work fine.

"There is no truth to this," said Bryan Del Rizzo, a spokesman for Nvidia.


The official for the company declined to provide any further details or colour to the information published earlier on Monday. According to a media report, Nvidia GK104 "chips may be suffering from serious performance degradation over long periods of heavy load". The exact effects of performance degradation were not indicated: it is unclear whether certain stream processors stop working, or the chips drop clock-speed. As a result, the company was rumored to initiate recall process for the GK104-based products.


Before making it to the market, all the new GPUs are vigorously tested in various applications; they also pass Microsoft HCL tests, which not only stress graphics chips, but take hours to complete. Therefore, chances that chips may degrade in performance over time are pretty low.

Looks like it's false. I'll leave this thread here for today in case someone comes running in here with an older link... Hopefully they'll see this thread first.

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EVGA is doing a mini-recall of an early batch of GTX 670 Superclock cards that, according to EVGA, were not properly screened. Although the problem is not that serious, EVGA has stepped up and offered a free upgrade to GTX 670 FTW for those that might experience any issues with their own GTX 670 SC graphics cards.

Although EVGA R&D department did numerous tests, burn-in and component quality verifications that has led to a conclusion that the EVGA GTX 670 Superclocked is a well designed product, EVGA has already been working with their partners to retest the aforementioned early batch.

The EVGA GTX 670, part number 02G-P3-2672-KR, is the same graphics card that we had a chance to test, here, and we did not experience any problems. Those that happen to stumble upon a problem with their own board should contact Jacob Freeman, EVGA Product Manager, in order to setup an RMA cross shipment along with a free upgrade to faster and better EVGA GTX 670 FTW version.

This is a good move by EVGA and other partners now definitely have someone to look up to, as some would certainly keep their mouth shut and just do a simple RMA.

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/27...-of-gtx-670-sc