The TechReport's Scott Wasson has some interesting tidbits to give us about the rumors regarding the GeForce GTX 590 "issues."
Source: TechReport
Yesterday afternoon was interesting because I spent much of it revisiting the GeForce GTX 590, looking for problems. As you may have heard, some reviewers using early drivers had rather serious, quasi-explosive failures with overclocked GTX 590 cards. Like these guys at Sweclockers:
Whoops.
The trouble there, it seems, is that the card's built-in power-protection scheme didn't, you know, protect. We tested the GTX 590 with somewhat newer drivers, apparently updated to fix that problem, and didn't run into any sparks, flames, or even smoke. In fact, the power protection mechanism kicked in and saved our card from what was probably certain destruction, given what we did to it. From our review:
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Source: TechReport
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