Jay Gally
Might not be the best place to share this, but I was able to play the Alpha (albeit very briefly) in late June. I've had my original 3090 since January and everything was running smooth with my normal library of games. 
 
I had played the alpha for about 40 minutes about two weeks ago and was monitoring my MSI Afterburner dashboard and noticed the card was running hotter than normal and at that moment, monitors went black, gpu fans at 100, and I still had sound in my headset. Basically what a majority of people are describing happened to them, I experienced in the alpha. It is extremely anecdotal at the time, but I was convinced it was the game that was the culprit as I'm extremely delicate with my gpu otherwise. Needless to say I went through the RMA process and just recently got my replacement card. I wanted to test my theory and sure enough, high temps and gpu usage. I turned the frames down to 60 locked and a dramatic reduction in temps and gpu usage. I played for another hour and just didn't want to tempt fate and shut it down.  
 
It is a bit reaffirming that I'm seemingly not alone in my experience, but it does suck that so many others had to go through this. 

Jay Gally
Yes there was a singular red light above the left most power connector. 

Intoxicus

Jay Gally
Yes there was a singular red light above the left most power connector. 

The Red Light of Death issue that's been around since Nov 1, 2020 presents the same way as what people describe about the game killing their GPU.

So far even down to the popping sound which might be a fuse blowing. The big difference is the RLoD reports happened with not nearly as demanding games like Halo MCC.

I would speculate that either the game is causing it to happen to EVGA 3090s that might be fine otherwise, or that the EVGA 3090 GPUs affected by the RLoD will have it happen more often than other GPUs. Or both.

I find it very very interesting that there is so much overlap between the Red Light of Death and what's going on with this game blowing out GPUs.

The most recent speculation about the RLoD that seems credible is that the power draw is uneven between the 3 power connectors and that's ultimately the cause.

Intoxicus

Jay Gally
Yes there was a singular red light above the left most power connector. 

The Red Light of Death issue that's been around since Nov 1, 2020 presents the same way as what people describe about the game killing their GPU.

So far even down to the popping sound which might be a fuse blowing. The big difference is the RLoD reports happened with not nearly as demanding games like Halo MCC.

I would speculate that either the game is causing it to happen to EVGA 3090s that might be fine otherwise, or that the EVGA 3090 GPUs affected by the RLoD will have it happen more often than other GPUs. Or both.

I find it very very interesting that there is so much overlap between the Red Light of Death and what's going on with this game blowing out GPUs.

The most recent speculation about the RLoD that seems credible is that the power draw is uneven between the 3 power connectors and that's ultimately the cause.

hengunl25
Everytime i bought gpu from evga i just set precision to prioritize max temp of 70c and dont care about fps, usage, power or anything at all

Been absolutely fine since 1080ti to 3080ti
Been absolutely fine since xoc to x1

8thWonder

hengunl25
Everytime i bought gpu from evga i just set precision to prioritize max temp of 70c and dont care about fps, usage, power or anything at all

Been absolutely fine since 1080ti to 3080ti
Been absolutely fine since xoc to x1

Funny you say that. I had my 3090 FTW3 capped at 240. I set precision X max temp to 75C and I still got the 100% fans and Black screens. This time wasn't even in the Main menu, it was in game. I've stress tested the card many times at 100% usage. No previous issues.

ObscureEmpyre
I'm rather curious as to how a game is killing cards.

Sajin
If you want to play with vsync off then you should be able to with the card being able to handle it. If the card can’t handle it then it isn’t designed correctly.

Intoxicus

Jay Gally

Intoxicus

Jay Gally
Yes there was a singular red light above the left most power connector. 

The Red Light of Death issue that's been around since Nov 1, 2020 presents the same way as what people describe about the game killing their GPU.

So far even down to the popping sound which might be a fuse blowing. The big difference is the RLoD reports happened with not nearly as demanding games like Halo MCC.

I would speculate that either the game is causing it to happen to EVGA 3090s that might be fine otherwise, or that the EVGA 3090 GPUs affected by the RLoD will have it happen more often than other GPUs. Or both.

I find it very very interesting that there is so much overlap between the Red Light of Death and what's going on with this game blowing out GPUs.

The most recent speculation about the RLoD that seems credible is that the power draw is uneven between the 3 power connectors and that's ultimately the cause.

I did do some internet digging when the issue happened to me and noticed this was an issue back during launch and xmas. In my example, I don't recall a popping sound. It was the 100% fan usage that I noticed leading up to the screen going black. 
 
I will say the whole ordeal has definitely make me a bit gun shy to play new games that I haven't already played on this card and I know it can run fine. 

I was tracking posts about it after I got my 3080 FTW3 Ultra because I initially had concerns about using pigtails.
It's interesting that now, finally, the word is to not use them. When I was raising my concerns about them a lot of people were quite dismissive about it.

Not everyone reported a popping sound, but it is consistent enough. It's something you might not hear if you have headphone on, etc. 

100% fan usage on it's own isn't necessarily anything to worry about depending on context. 

I use Afterburner to display a robust amount of info in the OSD. It takes some time to setup, and you need HWinfo installed to get a full array of information.
But it is worth it to be able to see damn everything important going on with your system while gaming.

I've noticed small issues before they became a big problem because of my OSD setup. For example I recently noticed some minor discrepancies with my temps that made me realize I need to replace some of my thermal pads.

I would suggest using Afterburner to setup an OSD that shows usage %, temps for all sensors, power draw(you can monitor each connector's power draw individually if you want), memory, fps, frametimes, fan/aio info, and also CPU usage and temps.

If you need any tips on the nuances of making Afterburner show some of the HWinfo stats then feel free to DM me. Some of the sensors default settings are off and need some tweaking to display properly.