toms hardware EVGA Says Nvidia RTX 3080 Cap Issues Caused Crashes, Confirms Stability Issues

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EVGA has seemingly confirmed that issues with a certain type of capacitor could be a contributing factor to an increasing number of reports of crashes associated with factory-overclocked Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards. 

These capacitors were cited in a recent article by Igor's Lab as the probable source of the issues that have spawned widespread complaints in enthusiast forums and Reddit about unexplained RTX 3080 crashes and black screens. 

EVGA's statement, which comes in the form of a forum post, cites its own issues with the capacitors in its designs (we'll explain what this means below):

"[...]During our mass production QC testing we discovered a full 6 POSCAPs solution cannot pass the real world applications testing. It took almost a week of R&D effort to find the cause and reduce the POSCAPs to 4 and add 20 MLCC caps prior to shipping production boards, this is why the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 series was delayed at launch. There were no 6 POSCAP production EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 boards shipped.   

 

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/evga-nvidia-rtx-3080-capacitor-caused-crashes 

 

 

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Yeah it seems that Nvidia are having a rough time in that good ole quality control department. Glad that I did not jump at launch !

[Andrew]

At least with RTX 2000, you got Space Invaders

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3 hours ago, Andrew said:

At least with RTX 2000, you got Space Invaders

I am surprised Nvidia did not use it as part of its marketing. "Free game with all your hardware faults!"