Even As Graphics Card Prices Skyrocket, Build Quality on the Decline?

[Metroid]

That is what happens when people have more money than sense, manufactures will do crap because they know they will sell anything they build. They should use all top materials and we find out most are crap materials. They are selling gpus priced 2000 usd and to make it, they spend 250 usd.

 

[Mussels]

I've been seeing these pop on on reddit and having a good laugh at them all

be a nightmare for users with a unicorn product having issues out of the box

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

That protective film one still makes me laugh. The finger cot one is gross, thought it was a fingernail at first.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I'm thinking I'll pre disassemble my parts from now on, GITS(OEM's).

@@haters stop pretending your pron stash isn't epic or your car a bit excessive, or your Colinectors edition SNES setup, peep's like weird shit to other peep's, just keep it legal Ffs.

I got weird covered, with old pc hardware memorabilia that's largely blown up\/ ,now.

 

[evilpaul]

One issue could be trying to satisfy the demand, those issues seem to be mistakes rather than an effort to reduce costs, maybe a consequence of pushing workers much more than usual.

If it weren't for the fact they're using thermal pads that turn into silicone grease fountains and barely keep GDDR6X below 90C when they are put in the right place. It'll be interesting to see how the "it's fine if it stays under 110C" claims about GDDR6X pan out in a year or two.

 

[Deleted member 185088]

If it weren't for the fact they're using thermal pads that turn into silicone grease fountains and barely keep GDDR6X below 90C when they are put in the right place. It'll be interesting to see how the "it's fine if it stays under 110C" claims about GDDR6X pan out in a year or two.

They are measures to force chips to stay within spec, unless there is a fault somewhere like with the EVGA cards, it should be fine.

 

[evilpaul]

Unless Samsung has tech nobody knows about, but is still making DRAM instead of using their time travel machine to kill Hitler or whatever you're supposed to use it for, nobody will actually know how it stands up over time for a few years.

The cards are being assembled incorrectly, the thermal pads being used are mediocre quality, and component lifespan drops dramatically as temperature increases. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of failures right outside the warranty period of a couple years instead of the many years beyond the useful life of the product that's normal.