PC parts and gear – has explained that cases of New World bricking Nvidia RTX 3090 GPUs was actually due to “poor workmanship” within the cards themselves, and not the MMO’s fault.Back in July, beta players for Amazon Games‘ MMO New World reported that playing the game had completely fried their RTX 3090, leading to EVGA replacing all damaged RTX 3090s with no questions asked.Now, EVGA has confirmed to PC World that further analysis of the fried graphics cards has revealed “poor workmanship” was the real cause for the failure.
Inspections found that soldering around the MOSFET circuit – a crucial part within the GPU – was done poorly, causing affected cards to break.EVGA added that the batch of cards affected by poor workmanship totaled.
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