NVIDIA Vows to Fix GTX 1080 Founders Edition Fan Bug with Next Driver

btarunr · Jun 5, 2016

NVIDIA announced that it will fix the issue of the erratic fan behavior issue affecting the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition graphics card. The issue had scores of early adopters of the card complain of regular yet unpredictable spikes in fan speed, with no apparent temperature or load triggers. Late last week, NVIDIA announced that a driver-level fix for the issue passed internal testing at NVIDIA, and will soon be distributed with the next GeForce driver update for the card.

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$ReaPeR$ · Jun 5, 2016

would be nice if they hadnt made such a stupid mistake to begin with..

ZoneDymo · Jun 5, 2016

im expecting a hotfix after the driver to fix whatever this driver will introduce

Caring1 · Jun 5, 2016

ZoneDymo said:
im expecting a hotfix after the driver to fix whatever this driver will introduce

Probably limit overclocking

TheGuruStud · Jun 5, 2016

Caring1 said:
Probably limit overclocking

Didn't that already happen since launch? Max power was brought down, right?

qubit · Jun 6, 2016

A pretty embarrasing bug for sure. Let's hope this fix really works and doesn't introduce other issues.

Fluffmeister · Jun 6, 2016

Bugs are bugs... that is why they are called bugs.

Good to hear they have a fix either way, now everyone who never intended to buy the card in the first place can sleep at night.

Xzibit · Jun 6, 2016

Fluffmeister said:
Bugs are bugs... that is why they are called bugs.

Many people thought the shroud design was inspired by Lamborghini, maybe they wanted to replicate the V12 engine revving up.

FE = ~~Founders Edition~~ Fan Erratic

Fluffmeister · Jun 6, 2016

Xzibit said:
Many people thought the shroud design was inspired by Lamborghini, maybe they wanted to replicate the V12 engine revving up.

You might be on to something actually, the boy racers with their cheap stuff think they can keep up... but the reality is it's all noise.

I'll do an edit too:

Caring1 said:
Probably limit overclocking

True, you have to go AMD to get an overclockers dream.

R-T-B · Jun 6, 2016

Fluffmeister said:
Good to hear they have a fix either way, now everyone who never intended to buy the card in the first place can sleep at night.

That's what I find most humorous is that the majority of the comments on the issue come from people who don't even own the card. Some people seem to think brand bashing is a religion... and we all know it goes both ways.

That said, I'm sure the legit owners will appreciate the fix. It's not like there wasn't an issue, but I think early adopter issues are par for the course. I certainly had a few with Skylake.

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NVIDIA Vows to Fix GTX 1080 Founders Edition Fan Bug with Next Driver

btarunr

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Overclocked quantum bit

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