the asus's origin of failure is not in the same location.

Time for someone to cook on egg on these GPUs.  Just saying.  

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...you have precision x1 to manage your temps thanks to use it right even in beta!! Fans issue control..rip human brain

Can it be humidity?
Like leaky AIO or other Water Cooling?

squall-leonhart
the asus's origin of failure is not in the same location.

It’s within an inch and at the same location on the card. That is pretty close for two completely different brand boards.

Well but both using the same nvidia reference PCB

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-acknowledges-issues-with-geforce-rtx-2080-ti-fe.html

I have been following the threads closely. It was reported on Hardforum. I currently own both the EVGA XC and a Asus Turbo Dual fan 2080 TI so it has been of interest to me. On both my cards, I have measured the temps from the backplate  to be in the 105-112F range in those affected areas while the GPU area has been around the 122F range which is reported to be 55C by precision x1 and gpu-z.

Don't leave that thing unattended!