Wallossek admits that he did not have a readily available EVGA card to test with, but he did have not only the resources to other GPUs but also has reached out to other colleagues that are in the research and development groups of larger AICs (i.e. NVIDIA, AMD, etc.). With the information that he received, plus his own input, he feels confident that the design of the EVGA units is the actual culprit to bricking user’s graphics cards.
Wallossek makes very valid points, covering the fact that NVIDIA has manufactured ways to fix the TMON, also know as the temperatures of the SPS, or Smart Powered Stages, from overheating, where other manufacturers have had to create workarounds to keep the temperatures lower—a problem NVIDIA fixed long before the GeForce RTX 3090. In fact, shortly after the RTX 1080 FTW.
— Igor Wallossek, Igor’s Lab
He concludes that monitoring in the chip is a more effective design that NVIDIA utilizes instead of besides the chip, which he states are unnecessary and leads to further issues, which causes manufacturers to build additional systems to combat simple solutions.
Please read this message regarding recent concerns with graphics cards hardware. pic.twitter.com/L1gNeBBPQS
— New World (@playnewworld) July 21, 2021
News Source: Igor’s Lab
