Geforce GTX 590 is burning in SweClockers test lab - Driver culprit

[erek]

For the launch of the GeForce GTX 590 took place in a drama in SweClockers test lab. Two graphics card died, and the error is the supplied drivers.

High-performance graphics card Geforce GTX 590 straddle the boundary of what is practical to handle in terms of power consumption and heat generation. Even worse is the situation when overclocking.

To avoid the risk that the components are damaged locks built into the drivers who will speak up when limits are exceeded. SweClockers testers Jonas Thörnqvist tells what happened when the so-so graphics card for SEK 12 000 went up in smoke.

The first video card gave up the ghost when I overclocked by raising the voltage to the GPU. I did not think much more about it, that is, after all, what might happen and there's always Monday specimens, especially when it comes to early "samples".

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Source: SweClockers

[erek]

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direct link to the video

[@md_Guy]

Interesting that ATI/AMD has the bad "driver" rep yet nV has released what 2 or 3 driver sets that have KILLED video cards.. Good Job !! TPU also reportedly has a similiar experience as well as another couple of reviewers.

[Flakman]

Where is the "Proof" that this was a video driver issue? Looks more like a power issue to me "Brown out maby"?

[hesho89]

techpowerup also fried a 590 as well.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_590/26.html

[erek]

techpowerup also fried a 590 as well.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/A...TX_590/26.html

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_590/images/magicsmoke.jpg

As a first step, I increased the voltage from 0.938 V default to 1.000 V, maximum stable clock was 815 MHz - faster than GTX 580! Moving on, I tried 1.2 V to see how much could be gained here, at default clocks and with NVIDIA's power limiter enabled. I went to heat up the card and then *boom*, a sound like popcorn cracking, the system turned off and a burnt electronics smell started to fill up the room. Card dead! Even with NVIDIA power limiter enabled. Now the pretty looking, backlit GeForce logo was blinking helplessly and the fan did not spin, both indicate an error with the card's 12V supply.
After talking to several other reviewers, this does not seem to be an isolated case, and many of them have killed their cards with similar testing, which is far from being an extreme test.



With the card dead, I looked for any damage and found one of the 12V input resistors acting as fuses to be damaged (1st pic, no visible damage), so I soldered a bridge on it to bypass it, the card then "exploded" again, this time one of the MOSFETs blew up as shown in the second picture above. This was just an experimental fix to potentially revive the card. If only the resistor was damaged then it should be working fine again, looks like something else was broken and the "fuse" resistor merely blew to protect the card.

[@md_Guy]

So far thats what.. ?
TPU 1 dead card
Dem Crazy Swedes.. 1 dead card
Lab501 2 dead cards (non -OC'd, default)
T-Break 1 dead card..
edit: add Hardware.fr to the list apaprently

[Akumajo]

Where is the "Proof" that this was a video driver issue? Looks more like a power issue to me "Brown out maby"?

I thought it was more in line with overzealous overclocking with these dweebs.

I mean each GPU is 3billion transistors on a 40nm process if the card is sold underclocked as a reference and these guys are exceeding the clock speeds because they think they can, its no wonder these card fried.

[Wagnard]

Well if we do not overclock, then its not a problem. Even so o.c the card is not under warranty for a reason.

[nycdarkness]

Interesting enough the Techpowerup guy had it at 580 speeds and it was fine. Till he pushed it further is what I gather from my skimming of the page. However, anyone else notice the very nice performance bump before it blew up.