Sunday, July 25th 2021
EVGA Begins Replacing GeForce RTX 3090 Cards Bricked by New World, Problem Not Localized to RTX 3090
In case you missed it, the closed beta of Amazon's upcoming MMO, "New World," has been found bricking (rendering useless) certain GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards; ones that are supposed to be mighty powerful for a fairly average-looking game, visually. EVGA has come forward to announce that RTX 3090 cards bricked by the MMO are fully covered under the product warranty, and eligible for replacement. Hot Hardware reports that EVGA has been honoring RMA and warranty claims from its RTX 3090 product owners.
Meanwhile, JayzTwoCents tweeted that the problem with New World may not be localized to the RTX 3090, with graphics card owners across a multitude of GPUs, including from the GeForce RTX 30-series, Radeon RX 6000 series, and even RX 500 "Polaris," reporting shut-downs and failures when running the game. On its part, Amazon's game studio said that it is working on a patch that fixes the game. The company is free from liability, as this is a closed beta, and everyone who installs these agree to a license that absolves the developer of liability from damage to property resulting from its use.
Sources:
HotHardware, JayzTwoCents (Twitter)
Meanwhile, JayzTwoCents tweeted that the problem with New World may not be localized to the RTX 3090, with graphics card owners across a multitude of GPUs, including from the GeForce RTX 30-series, Radeon RX 6000 series, and even RX 500 "Polaris," reporting shut-downs and failures when running the game. On its part, Amazon's game studio said that it is working on a patch that fixes the game. The company is free from liability, as this is a closed beta, and everyone who installs these agree to a license that absolves the developer of liability from damage to property resulting from its use.
44 Comments on EVGA Begins Replacing GeForce RTX 3090 Cards Bricked by New World, Problem Not Localized to RTX 3090
My evga 1080ti ftw3 is working just fine been on oc vbios with King|Pin fix every since I got it and possibly the best card to date.
It's got a water block of course other than that no problems got it shortly after release at local micro center.
So no idea what issues you had with your 1080ti.
Read the vrm story guess the water block saved it lol
Amazon was never at fault in the first place, this is a hardware issue (yet again). Furmark was never liable for failed cards either, it simply demonstrated the poor design of video cards (yet again).
After all, software is just a set of predefined instructions instructions and games are pretty high-level SW. Lower levels of SW should be taking care the higher layers can only do what they are supposed to.
In theory, no matter how bad the crash, once power-cycled, the HW's ROM should bootstrap it normal working condition again. If not, then someone really caked their pants with the design/implementation.
I don't even want to imagine if DX12/Vulkan can create conditions to brick hardware.And how should Amazon be at fault for writing software? Does DX12 or Vulkan have any instruction to fry or brick a card?
Crashes? OK. BSoD? Well, what can you do? But a total brick? Naaah.
Why would they do that? Out of the goodness of their hearts? You wish!
Funny that besides Igors Lab, all the other YT seem to know nothing about this. Some sort of colective amnesia lol Especially Gamers Nexus that loves to trash brands know just went silent, not even in the news.that's a lie, they have to pay for shipping, and some have been on this RMA loop for a long time now, it didn't started with NW. Just look in the EVGA foruns, 2, 3 and even 6 RMA's.
This means they are admitting responsibility. They wouldn't do this shit if they didn't have a hand in the issues.
Don't remember the cooler name, but on gpu I had 7 or 9, or even 11 sensors for temperatures. It was their new model after damage control :D.
What I didn't like. Card was loud comparing to my previos msi 980 ti, yeah, yeah, I know different chips. But they both were 250w (if I remember correctly) cards so... doesnt matter. MSI was more silent and had lower temps. Meanwhile EVGA went avooooooooooooooo. Second thing that after some time there was leaking some kind of glue (I think it was for vrms thermal pads), had to clean it off few times. Otherwise there would be after some time dust nest :D.
For all we know they did it on purpose to improve sales HAHAHAHHA.
Seems they are just honoring warranty claims is all.
A sensible thing to do imho wonder if any others would lol
Shipping cost is just one item and small potatoes assuming it's 3 day ground
Insurance on the other hand adds a lot more so you'd have to be pretty stupid to not insure a 2k.us item lol