Testing New World with my RTX 3090 FTW3... Surprising results!

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[jonathans]

As an electronics engineer, these weird noises from the EVGA card really sound like inductors saturating under overload. This phenomenon creates massive (and very damaging) current spikes in the power stages. When an inductor reaches its maximum current, it suddenly stops being an inductor and allows the current to run away and increase almost without bounds within nanoseconds. Something about the load that New World puts on the VRM might make the phase currents get out of balance (for example, huge swings in power consumption that the VRM isn't fast enough to follow), which then causes inductor saturation and card death.

I'd love to see oscilloscope shots of the inductor current and power stage PWM signals, but I guess Jay isn't the right guy for that. Buildzoid...?

[jeremykarpiak]

I feel like there’s one factor you didn’t properly rule out. Heat, most people who experienced the problem probably didn’t have open air test bench. How much hotter would card have gotten had it been in a pc case.

[HaniiPuppy]

12:20 - "Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary right now" *power % jumps from 65% to 128% as soon as he turns his back*

[zomfgeclipse]

1st test: thermometer
2nd test: Nick says it's hot lol

[enlightendbel]

Sparkly VRM's, that takes me back to a decade ago when GPUs sung their high pitched anthems and groaned running Crysis.

[raymondhayes]

Around the 8:00 minute mark in the video, you discuss the "rumbly" sound. I noted this issue on my PNY 3070 on day one of beta. It was so loud, that it made my pure wood, formica Steelcase desk rumble and hum a low pitch. When I checked my temps, I was slamming about 78C. But, this went away around Day 3. I then checked and saw there was a bios update for my card for the new resizable bar update. I added this, and believe it or not, my temps dropped...but, only down to about 73C max. All I do know is that weird rumble, was there for my 3070...but, is now gone.

[zacklothamer]

I'm really interested to see what evga has to say once they get the rma cards back

[TheGuyFromDenmark]

Your card actually hit 125% power at a point, 18% over the set limit, thats a lot of uncontrolled powerdraw

[gaptoofgranny]

Oh, that grinding noise.. Fun to hear the VRM's crunch themselves to death.

[VolcanoPenguin]

Never stop doing those ending out-takes/edits/funny stuff. They're great.

[youkosnake]

Just what I've been waiting for. This and whenever Steve gets a hold on it.

[DiscipleOfMan]

Great to hear the bricked cards are being replaced but looks like the behaviour might not yet be resolved. Given the difficult GPU market I can only imagine the tears my eyes would shed if my 3090 died.

[FTLNewsFeed]

Two thoughts: 1. Trying to ascertain tone from text is notoriously difficult. I read the same thing that Jay did and didn't get the same impression that he did. 2. Love EVGA. Had a 950GTX die on me while playing WoW and since it was under warranty they took it via RMA and sent me back an upgrade, a 1060GTX.

[TheAmmoniacal]

Any true engineer at EVGA would love to get failed cards back to learn what happened and how.

[kingbyouchoob]

I have a MSI RTX 2080 SUPER and New World is the first PC game I’ve ever played (been pc gaming since C64 days) that makes my PC completely shut off. CPU temps would always hit 90-100+ degrees Celsius “IN TOWNS” only with crazy temp spikes really fast. So if I stayed in towns with a lot of players like Everfall or Windsward too long my pc would totally shut itself off all the time. It was so bad it killed my windows 10 and I had to reinstall windows. GPU temps never an issue ever. So every time I was in town I had to change to low settings and 30fps to not get insane temp spikes. I searched the interwebs and YouTube for days for a fix. The one fix I finally found that worked (for the most part) is having to create a customer power profile in windows for new world.

[broklond]

Jay: "safeguards are not designed to be hit and used over and over and over"
Buildzoid: I beg to differ...

[Kappi]

8:42 That sound is definitly a inductor going below it's intended Frequency range and getting saturated

[NightFyreTV]

Note to self: Don't play new games on expensive PC, wait a few weeks. What a time to be alive

[soupwizard]

7:25 "That card is hotter than I ever remember it getting" On screen: "Power Draw: 424W"

[Fetrovsky]

"Software can't break a component"... no, software _shouldn't be able_ to break a component.