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[–] • 5 pts

Kind of weird it's only showing up in Amazon's game. Lots of games have high fps menus like The Witcher 3, civ 6, etc.

[–] • 1 pt

Probably driven by transition period. Many games start loading resources prior to the menu. But if they start everything at once, with an unlocked fps menu, there may not be a large enough transition period to soak the heat.

Amazon is using their own engine so the behavior is likely unique to them.

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

The New World beta in question did not implement a frame rate limiter in the menu system, which many released games include. That could cause a GPU to suddenly go from an in-game frame rate of 100 fps to roaring along at 800 fps. It’s akin to driving a car at full throttle going up hill and accidentally putting the car into neutral. If you don’t lift your foot, the engine revs into its redline.

puke

[–] • 4 pts (edited )

If it is not a fan controller issue, what they describe is a silicon or silicon to heat sink issue. A momentary transient heat issue ("full throttle") should be fully absorbed by the cooling system. If it is not, that means either the heat can't escape the IC to the silicon (design failure) or the silicon can't transfer to the cooling system (no thermal compound, not properly installed or heat sink not properly attached).

This is why running a modern amd/intel CPU without a heatsink is a bad idea. At least those have bulletin in throttling. Without that, they are instant toast.

What they are describing is a serious issue.

[–] • 3 pts

nothing to do with framerates and everything to do with thermals, dont make a card that you have to fucking throttle to even function

[–] • 1 pt

Bro cherish your Pepe... you never know how long he'll be there.

[–] • 0 pt

"...poor workmanship..."

Aren't most PCBs produced by machine, components placed by machine, and through-hole components (which I assume the mosfets are) wave-soldered all at once?

[–] • 0 pt

It said less than 1% of cards were affected. Maybe they hand soldered some of them as a temporary measure and then shipped those. I dont' really know, though.