Today, a company representative has put the pin in that story. EVGA reached out to PCWorld to explain that the RTX 3090 failures were linked to simple factory defects on early production models. The explanation from the article reads: “Under an X-ray analysis, they appear to have ‘poor workmanship’ on soldering around the card’s MOSFET circuits that powered the impacted cards.”
German media outlet Igor’s Lab also commented on the situation early on and suggested that faulty fan controllers were responsible for the failures. The site decided to monitor the hardware while running the game and noticed that the fans were attempting to reach speeds of 200,000rpms and ignoring limiters. While the fans weren’t actually coming anywhere close to actually running at those speeds, they were still under stress from maximum utilization.
Setting things straight
However, EVGA states that the issues with the RTX 3090s failing while running New World doesn’t relate to the fan controllers in any way. The soaring framerates simply caused computer hardware monitoring tools to incorrectly report. EVGA has since corrected that issue as well. Users can get the necessary micro-controller update via the EVGA Precision X1 GPU software tool.
