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The 590 oven!
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EEK, yup if youve got stock in nvidia SELL, SELL, SELL! I smell a recall...or is that just melting plastic? 
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WOW!!!
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Nah its sourced from a French website. I'm still struggling with my 5870x2, lol. Wanted a 590 til I started seeing reports of some burning out.
Can't afford ir camera either lol.
Can't afford ir camera either lol.
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HD6990 is the way to go at this point, XFX warranty covers overclocking of it too! I hope Nvidia recalls it and fix the first batch and release a revision quick, but who knows if they will remember their defective mobile cards? Several OEM dropped use of their mobile cards in their PCs altogether
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Yikes! That is terrible, I would never put that in my system if that's the kinds of temperatures it gets.
Smoke is never a good sign...
Smoke is never a good sign...
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Unless I missed it in the review it wasn't mentioned what case and cooling they were using. The card is obviously just fan cooled however case flow plays a large part as well.
I think the 590 has it's issues but then again a lot of those I am sure could be worked around. Besides who would honestly want to run these in SLI on air. . . . sorry those babies in my opinion are water only.
I think the 590 has it's issues but then again a lot of those I am sure could be worked around. Besides who would honestly want to run these in SLI on air. . . . sorry those babies in my opinion are water only.
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6990 in same set up.
Hard to claim airflow.
HD 6990 idle vs load@375W vs load@450W:
Hard to claim airflow.
HD 6990 idle vs load@375W vs load@450W:
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IMO they are just packing WAY WAY to much wattage output into such a small area.
Just look at it this way... look at the HUGE size of the cpu coolers we are using for what.... 95W TDP cpu's? the coolers on the 6990 and the 590 are so minimal for the 375w TDP of these cards its no wonder they burn up.
Also theres only so much juice you can flow in that area, and tbh they have reached it... i seriously think they need to go back to the drawing board and stop making these prescott-esque gpus, and think about efficiency.
Just look at it this way... look at the HUGE size of the cpu coolers we are using for what.... 95W TDP cpu's? the coolers on the 6990 and the 590 are so minimal for the 375w TDP of these cards its no wonder they burn up.
Also theres only so much juice you can flow in that area, and tbh they have reached it... i seriously think they need to go back to the drawing board and stop making these prescott-esque gpus, and think about efficiency.
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My 6950:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131389
Now I'm obviously not packing the same exact power punch that a dual GPU is (like the 6990 or the 590) but my output at full load, while OC'd, is 61c.... with automatic fan control. (about 55-60% during full load)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131389
Now I'm obviously not packing the same exact power punch that a dual GPU is (like the 6990 or the 590) but my output at full load, while OC'd, is 61c.... with automatic fan control. (about 55-60% during full load)
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Was it the actual GPU or a power component/circuit?
This is not an AMD vs nVidia thread so lets keep the discusion mostly on nVidia's 590.
This is not an AMD vs nVidia thread so lets keep the discusion mostly on nVidia's 590.
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I think Nvidia tried to give too much to the silent PC crowd. This card was billed by Nvidia as the quietest double gpu.
Too many people expect way too much. They complain if fans are too loud or if heat gets too high. Time to realize that if you want silence and cool temps, you get wet.
Edit: Sorry Audioaficionado, I only posted the amd data to show that their double gpu wasn't starving for air so it wasn't an air flow problem. Though admittedly they could have used a better case. The Antec Sonata III isn't my first choice for airflow or cooling in general.
Though to get these images they had to have the side panel off so those gpus could certainly breathe.
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The realm at which the 590 is sitting you almost have to watercool the thing in order to get decent operations out of it. I am curious. . . does anyone have a heat review on the classified H2o cards that EVGA has for the 590? Obviously H2o would be able to cool better than air however I am wondering how much more. Could be this card is designed for water and they just did a **** poor job on the air side?
Audioaficionado that is my fault as well, sorry about that. I mainly was wondering about the case used as heat build up has a lot to do with how well the case can move the air.
Audioaficionado that is my fault as well, sorry about that. I mainly was wondering about the case used as heat build up has a lot to do with how well the case can move the air.
True which would bring cold air in however there would still be a heat pocket of air if the case wasn't venting it out fast enough. Granted it shouldn't make that big of a difference, just trying to figure out if these cards simply run that hot or if there wasn't something helping it a little.Daemonkin said:
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Are there lots of instances of this happening or is it just a YouTube video gone viral?
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I'm glad you asked. I searched for "gtx 590 burning" and found this article which states that the burning is caused by a faulty volt protection in the beta driver.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvid...rn-the-GTX-590-when-Overclocking-191747.shtml
So it could be all smoke.
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I wasn't trying to create a "flame" war, I was merely stating that non-reference cooling tends to be a bazillion times better than reference coolers. The 6990 is an oven too, because it's a power hungry card with a terrible cooler.
The 590 might not get as hot with a better cooler, at least on the GPU side. As for the rest of the circuitry...... could be the design.
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Heck my 9800 GTX+ running GPU2 FAH client 24/7 @100% load keeps my bedroom quite toasty during the winter. I can't imagine how much warmer it would be with a 590 running full bore.
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