Scott_W
PhantomVS
I saw this thread, evga say that it's just 3% - 4% of cards which got the faulty component, however it feels like there are more than 4% bad cards or it just means evga made good sales so 4% is enough... I'm just not sure.
The statement from EVGA did not say 3-4% of cards were affected. It said 3-4% of the VRM ICs they used were faulty. There are what, 12 of those ICs on each FTW?? If so, that would mean -- for cards produced before they found/fixed the IC supply problem -- there is a 36-48% of having at least (1) bad VRM IC on any single card. Of course there is no way to know if (1) VRM operating out-of-spec is enough to cause the BS/100% problem, or if it takes more than one.
I bought my 1080FTW from Amazon on Sept-19. No way to know if it shipped from EVGA before or after the "fix". So far, it has worked perfectly -- no problems of any kind -- and I have run some games that others say quickly triggered the BS/100% problem on their cards. I decided to keep it, hoping it is not affected, but worst case I can RMA it if the BS/100% problem ever shows up.
Thanks for the explanation, I understand we're on the same boat.
Another interesting thing is why suddenly everyone discovered this issue like 3 weeks ago and having the problems since then...
As if this problem wasn't there on release, was it?