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Tanakoi Comparing it to plumbing, he argues that every extra joint adds a new potential failure point… More clickbait for the low-information crowd. Every pin, every contact, every PCB trace is a potential failure point. So? What matters is the overall failure rate. There was the same media frenzy around the 4090, but its failure rate stabilized at ~ 0.2%, and I doubt the 5090 will be much different. Reply
ingtar33 Tanakoi said: More clickbait for the low-information crowd. Every pin, every contact, every PCB trace is a potential failure point. So? What matters is the overall failure rate. There was the same media frenzy around the 4090, but its failure rate stabilized at ~ 0.2%, and I doubt the 5090 will be much different. you have no idea what you're talking about. this guy repairs gpus for his job. his youtube channel is a secondary issue. check out his channel. he's always flaming amd cards for their unreliability. if he claims there is a design flaw in the 5090 founders edition you better believe there is a design flaw in the 5090 founder edition. Reply
Tanakoi ingtar33 said: you have no idea what you're talking about. this guy repairs gpus for his job. And he makes money off every click on his Youtube channel, giving him more than enough motivation to post incendiary propaganda. Plus, it garners him notoriety which I'm sure feeds his repair business as well. ingtar33 said: If he claims there is a design flaw in the 5090 founders edition you better believe there is a design flaw in the 5090 founder edition. You give us an excellent example of the 'appeal to authority' logical fallacy. Unfortunately, it fails under even the slightest scrutiny, for the reasons I gave him my first post. Internal connectors are not "design flaws" unless they fail at a high rate … and we have, what, one total report of such a failure? Reply
call101010 Tanakoi said: More clickbait for the low-information crowd. Every pin, every contact, every PCB trace is a potential failure point. So? What matters is the overall failure rate. There was the same media frenzy around the 4090, but its failure rate stabilized at ~ 0.2%, and I doubt the 5090 will be much different. Actually he is giving good advice to AVOID buying THE Founder Editions if you want to tear them apart and put a water block on them. and I thank him for this advice. people who want to water-cool the card should look elsewhere and not pick the founder edition because of their fragile design VS 3rd party cards. FULL STOP and I GLADLY give him my CLICK and money for his advice., Reply
spongiemaster call101010 said: Actually he is giving good advice to AVOID buying THE Founder Editions if you want to tear them apart and put a water block on them. and I thank him for this advice. people who want to water-cool the card should look elsewhere and not pick the founder edition because of their fragile design VS 3rd party cards. FULL STOP and I GLADLY give him my CLICK and money for his advice., How dumb do you have to be to not instantly know the multi-PCB design of the 5090 FE would be a terrible option for disassembling? If you needed someone else to tell you this, then you're also the reason every plastic bag has a "this is not a toy" warning on it. Reply
Dr3ams ingtar33 said: he's always flaming amd cards for their unreliability I've owned AMD cards for the last 15 years and not one has ever broke. So… Reply
YSCCC The whole thing from the release is full of trouble, way overpriced piece of tech aimed mostly on Chinese smugglers and AI farms… it looks good and sleek, but the power it draws, the connector decision plus multi PCB layout with liquid metal don't call for confidence anyway Reply
spongiemaster ingtar33 said: you have no idea what you're talking about. this guy repairs gpus for his job. his youtube channel is a secondary issue. check out his channel. he's always flaming amd cards for their unreliability. if he claims there is a design flaw in the 5090 founders edition you better believe there is a design flaw in the 5090 founder edition. There will be zero failures of this part for people not disassembling this card. These cards are not designed to be taken apart. A design flaw would be a failure that occurs during regularly intended usage. This is not one of those cases. This dude has a history of clickbait videos and inflammatory rage baiting commentary. It's a deliberate pattern to advertise his business. Reply
Konomi I think we can all agree that the guy's views are fairly irrelevant here, and that there should be some place to get a replacement connector, even if it generally is unlikely to fail under normal operation. There'll always be some idiot or some unforeseen scenario that may damage it so having the option (even if it is highly marked up) is better than nothing. But if I were to even consider attaching a waterblock, it wouldn't be on an FE model anyway as you may as well get a more performant PCB that'd let you push it further. Reply
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