I am confused by the reasoning debauer uses to make his conclusion. like some have said already he bought broken cards and then went on to find them broken and then declares that all cards are there for broken? I get that there are many claims from other people that they also have had this issue, but until proven otherwise thats all they are "claims". Looking back at the 4090 connector issue there were also a ton of people claiming to be having that issue and that turned out to be BS. there will always be people jumping on these type of situations trying to make it appear as if its worse than it is. doesnt matter what brand it is, AMD, intel, Nvidia, there will always be people adding to the claims to make it seem worse. this testing that he did doesnt actually prove how widespread this issue is, just that in these cards that were having that issue he was able to narrow it down to something specific, which is great. but to then say it's an issue with all 7900xt(x)s cards because these broken ones are in fact broken doesn't add up to me. it shows that with the cards that are having issues it's probably related to the vapor chamber. do we know if it's a problem with all vapor chambers? no we don't. we have no idea whats causing it and further investigation is required to find that. maybe there's a specific condition that causes this to happen? maybe it's a defect in the manufacturing of specific batches of cards? all his testing shows is that there could be an issue with the vapor chamber on the cards that are having issues. for someone that has such a huge following this feels totally reckless to be making such claims at this point about needing to do recalls. this would be like if someone said Nvidia needs to recall all 4090s because of the melting cables, without regard to the number of cards actually having issues.
again if it turns out that they need to do a recall then thats what they need to do, but i dont see anything in debauers video that shows that is the case. again this would be like if someone sent him four 4090s that had melted connections and after testing and seeing that they would in fact melt, he then thinks nvidia should do a recall. This just doesn't feel scientific at all how he has come to the conclusion he did.
You also, like others, didnt fully understand his video: the sample of known 4 bad cards only used to
isolate the cause of the problem- not to show how widespread it is.
The reason to mention recall is based on 48 confirmed cases by him and remember that he has a very limited reach compared to all 7900XTX owner worldwide so more are sure to exist, and the understanding it is a vapor chamber (VC) problem that no user can fix by himself (it is not a driver, cable, adapter issue). If the VC is the problem and it`s made by automated process than whole banches are possible effects and that`s thouthends if not more. Hance it is seems like a widespred problem so recall, and not RMA, is the right way to hendel it properly from all sides (AMD, retailers, consumer).
As time gows by, we see more and more cases of people showing the same hot spot problem so his assumption of a must happend recall is very much valid and plusiable.
The high widespreadness of the problem is a quite established by now, all is left is to see how AMD handle it.
After all, it`s not a core\electrical design issue so just replace the collar and it`s fix.
Non-reference models can keep on sale with no problem.
AMD can still close the whole incident quietly and efficiently.
videocardz.com
