RTX 2080 Ti FE Escapes Testing by Dying After 8 Hours @ [H]

I received my EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC Black Edition Gaming (11G-P4-2282-KR) via the Step-Up program on Friday and it's been working fine. Overclocks to +203 / 2145 core, +500 memory, temps at 55C or below, as shown in the attached photos. I have the EK water block and backplate.

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Sucks to hear about so many people having multiple bad cards. Let us know how it goes.
 
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ds9voy said:
Well FU** ME.

I received my Evga 2080TI from B&H today a day early. Put it in the system AND EVERYTHING WAS GREAT! Upgraded to the newest Nvidia driver that just came out. ALL issues from my previous 2080TIs were NOT occurring. Played Shadow of the Tomb Raider without problem for a few hours. Great!

I've been using this thing all day and here we are at 4AM. About four hours ago, I turned the computer on and what do you FU**ING KNOW? A BLACK SCREEN. Power cycle. BLACK SCREEN. Power cycle, WINDOWS DESKTOP. COOL! Restart to see what happens. BLACK SCREEN. Restart again. SPACE INVADERS.

THIS IS MY FOURTH CARD. It's fu**ed in less than 24 hours of use. The first three were 2080TI FEs.

At this point, I would be telling myself "THIS IS SOMETHING YOU ARE DOING WRONG BRO! It's the PSU/MOBO/something else". Well fu** me, my first cards were on a Thermaltake 850W, Maximus X Hero, and 8700K. I sold those and bought an EVGA 1000W T2, Maximus XI, and 9900K. I told myself I would buy it as an excuse to upgrade and JUST INCASE there was something wrong with them. THERE IS NO WAY AT THIS POINT THIS IS ANYTHING BUT THE DAMN CARDS. All other hardware has been replaced at this point.

With the card out, running intel UHD graphics, the system is 100% rock solid with NO issues.

The card worked fine, then went completely to hell. SO IT DID WORK FOR A PERIOD OF HOURS TODAY 100% SOLID.

I'm out at this point. Returning this thing and I am not buying another until there is some kind of official confirmation whatever the hell is wrong with these cards is fixed. I sold my previous pascal card, and I am not going to go back and buy another. I just won't have a video card for now. It's not that serious. But fu**, I've been buying video cards since the Voodoo3.... NEVER have I had something like this happen.

I figured there was no way in hell this one would be defective. I mean, four in a row should be a statistical impossibility. WTF is going on?
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What pay you running? Can you check the rails under load with HWiNFO?
 
reaper12 said:
Sorry, no offence, but I really don't believe you. If you really have the Evga 2080Ti, post up a picture of it with your name on a piece of paper on top of it and also include the best buy receipt in the same picture, covering over the private details of course. Then post up a second picture with your name on a piece of paper stuck to the monitor showing the space invaders.

Reason I don't believe you is simple, you talked crap about these cards before they were released, so why buy one at all? In fact, after you reported your first 2080Ti failing you said that you were going to get a refund and not purchase another one until they were fixed. You even posted up a rant saying Nvidia were playing us all for fools and that this forum lacked any critical thinkers, calling the whole process a debacle. And yet you want to us believe you bought a second 2080ti card after your first failing?

I might believe you bought one card and strong emphasis on "might" but, no way did you buy anymore.
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Dam the audits on the forum are real. We also need proof that op is related biologically to the 2080ti or that it has been legally adopted, also need to see bank statements, electrical bills, proof of rent, proof of support, as well as an affidavit singed by a notary public that prove you where in possession of at least one card. A formal follow up audit will be made, once this information has been verified, to see the validity of the original claims made.

You have 30 days to respond to this notice. If you do not respond in that time a summary judgment will be issued.
 
To be fair, given his post history and having 4 failed cards; I'll take it with a grain of rice. It's fairly unbelievable.

That, or this shows that there is something common across some folks systems that kills these cards that Nvidia didn't test well.
 
Mchart said:
To be fair, given his post history and having 4 failed cards; I'll take it with a grain of rice. It's fairly unbelievable.

That, or this shows that there is something common across some folks systems that kills these cards that Nvidia didn't test well.
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My two cards that went bad never touched the same systems.
 
I wound up getting one of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC ULTRA GAMING, 11G-P4-2383-KR cards a bit ago.
Now I turn on my system each day wondering if it will boot up, or catch fire.

Computing hasn't been this full of crazy dangerous excitement in some time.
 
ds9voy said:
Well FU** ME.

I received my Evga 2080TI from B&H today a day early. Put it in the system AND EVERYTHING WAS GREAT! Upgraded to the newest Nvidia driver that just came out. ALL issues from my previous 2080TIs were NOT occurring. Played Shadow of the Tomb Raider without problem for a few hours. Great!

I've been using this thing all day and here we are at 4AM. About four hours ago, I turned the computer on and what do you FU**ING KNOW? A BLACK SCREEN. Power cycle. BLACK SCREEN. Power cycle, WINDOWS DESKTOP. COOL! Restart to see what happens. BLACK SCREEN. Restart again. SPACE INVADERS.

THIS IS MY FOURTH CARD. It's fu**ed in less than 24 hours of use. The first three were 2080TI FEs.

At this point, I would be telling myself "THIS IS SOMETHING YOU ARE DOING WRONG BRO! It's the PSU/MOBO/something else". Well fu** me, my first cards were on a Thermaltake 850W, Maximus X Hero, and 8700K. I sold those and bought an EVGA 1000W T2, Maximus XI, and 9900K. I told myself I would buy it as an excuse to upgrade and JUST INCASE there was something wrong with them. THERE IS NO WAY AT THIS POINT THIS IS ANYTHING BUT THE DAMN CARDS. All other hardware has been replaced at this point.

With the card out, running intel UHD graphics, the system is 100% rock solid with NO issues.

The card worked fine, then went completely to hell. SO IT DID WORK FOR A PERIOD OF HOURS TODAY 100% SOLID.

I'm out at this point. Returning this thing and I am not buying another until there is some kind of official confirmation whatever the hell is wrong with these cards is fixed. I sold my previous pascal card, and I am not going to go back and buy another. I just won't have a video card for now. It's not that serious. But fu**, I've been buying video cards since the Voodoo3.... NEVER have I had something like this happen.

I figured there was no way in hell this one would be defective. I mean, four in a row should be a statistical impossibility. WTF is going on?
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They need refunds so people can wait this out.
 
No offense to anybody but IMO, if you are buying one now, there is something wrong with you. Kyle has to since it's his job.(even though he bought them when they came out)

I think it will be interesting to see how many he can go through.
 
Could it be bad caps? Although I wouldn't think on non reference cards would use the same caps but what the hell do I know.

Elephants in the room for NVidia?

All laptops based on 2000 series cards potentially lost sales. Although I heard this is an actual mobile part I am not sure. Gaming 1080/1070 series maaaaay just be a good buy right now

Everyone that skates through without fizzle invaders...are you going to be able to re-sell the cards when you jump up again?

Barrons is saying NVDA is a great buy after losing 50% of its value. It will be interesting to see how this plays out and if it affects their stock prices more.
 
ds9voy said:
As requested:

https://imgur.com/a/VRPN1CQ

Tracking Numbers:

FedEx: 472256408240
UPS: 1ZWF25470358406318
FedEx: 462206930971

Happy?

You guys defending Nvidia in this are COMPLETE JOKES and those of us living through this are tired of defending ourselves to people online who aren't even interested in these cards and are on some mindless quest to defend Nvidia. You have NO idea what is going on or how severe and widespread this problem is.

Go buy one yourself so you have some idea why we are so pissed. I've been dealing with trying to get a working one since AUGUST and have been running Intel UHD graphics since then, down from my previous Pascal card.
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Now that is what I call being served a warm cup of STFU.
 
James21 said:
I wound up getting one of the EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC ULTRA GAMING, 11G-P4-2383-KR cards a bit ago.
Now I turn on my system each day wondering if it will boot up, or catch fire.

Computing hasn't been this full of crazy dangerous excitement in some time.
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Same here... I moved my 2080 Ti in open frame P5 case and pulled it far out from wall - its sort of a performance event now every moment I'm gaming with it.
 
ds9voy said:
As requested:

https://imgur.com/a/VRPN1CQ

Tracking Numbers:

FedEx: 472256408240
UPS: 1ZWF25470358406318
FedEx: 462206930971

Happy?

You guys defending Nvidia in this are COMPLETE JOKES and those of us living through this are tired of defending ourselves to people online who aren't even interested in these cards and are on some mindless quest to defend Nvidia. You have NO idea what is going on or how severe and widespread this problem is.

Go buy one yourself so you have some idea why we are so pissed. I've been dealing with trying to get a working one since AUGUST and have been running Intel UHD graphics since then, down from my previous Pascal card.

Each person has different tolerance levels for dealing with BS like this. Some people are out at card one. Some are out at card two. I'm out at card four and dealing with Nvidia defenders who never even bought ONE of these cards. It's just not worth this BS anymore.

On edit: I actually don't even blame you for being skeptical. I'm boxing the damn thing up as I type this and am in disbelief it has come to this point myself.
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Ill tell you what you have 4x as much patience as I do.. for sure i thought you would cover info with your middle finger in the pictures hehe.
Anyway, I get it in a way you are so pissed you are going cold turkey on gaming. I don't think its power, caps, temps.. these things are common, and would have been corrected 'for real' by now.. even drivers would mitigate those elements.. its the chips.. its bad yields, its warming pizza in the furnace or some crap, layer alignment breaks down with thermal cycling or some weird stuff.
 
Hagrid said:
No offense to anybody but IMO, if you are buying one now, there is something wrong with you.
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I said the same thing back on page seven of this thread. If you buy one of these cards knowing all of the issues you're basically asking for it, you're a glutton for punishment, etc.
 
iamjanco said:
NVIDIA RTX 2080 E.P.E.E.N. -- it's not how many of 'em you have, nor how long or fast you make it, it's how many RMAs you survive.

Right about now, ds9voy has got most beat (though Kyle's right behind him):

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So now we need a system of measurement - (FPM) How Many Failures per Month does your card have ;) - But i dunno know, that card 1 card on fire, how do we measure that, I mean surely that's worth a few FPM (Failures Per Month).
 
I would be looking at your system if you have been through 4 cards. Run it in another rig.
 
I'm surprised they haven't yanked these from the shelves at this rate.

I'll give nVidia the benefit of the doubt and assume they aren't marking up the price to ensure profit despite a massive number of returns, mostly because I don't think anyone could justify the potential damage to the brand. The RMA situation is the ONLY reason I haven't bought a 2080TI yet - I'd put it under water, and I'm not willing to risk the headache (or $1200 brick) if it pulls a space invaders on me.
 
Not saying AMD has not had its fair share of video card issues but Nvidia always has some stupid bullshit going on with its cards. All the way back 12 years ago When i purchased a 7900 card the memory had to be under-clocked to function properly. Then the whole 970 fiasco. Then the 10 series cards going out didnt have thermal pads on the memory. Then they decided to price gauge on the RTX series and now they have memory issues like WTF. I really hope AMD next card can kick the shit out of nvidia they have become to complacent for over 12 years now.
 
hakstarr said:
Not saying AMD has not had its fair share of video card issues but Nvidia always has some stupid bullshit going on with its cards. All the way back 12 years ago When i purchased a 7900 card the memory had to be under-clocked to function properly. Then the whole 970 fiasco. Then the 10 series cards going out didnt have thermal pads on the memory. Then they decided to price gauge on the RTX series and now they have memory issues like WTF. I really hope AMD next card can kick the shit out of nvidia they have become to complacent for over 12 years now.
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While I'm with you, I'm not holding my breath.

To even be in the same ballpark as nVidia (assuming they can fix the current space invader clusterfuck) AMD would need to drop a card that's at least 30% faster than the Vega 64 for $1000 or less. And if it doesn't happen soon nVidia will just release a 2080STI (Seriously it's a TI this time folks) version and drop the price of the 2080ti down to the point that AMD can't compete. Look at the Vega launch - the Vega 64 isn't a *bad* card, but it was over a year late AND cost (MSRP at least, I'll ignore the crypto bullshit) just as much as the year and a half old 1080 it traded blows with. If their flagship isn't on-par with the 2080ti for a bit cheaper (or nearly on-par and a LOT cheaper - like ~$799 MSRP cheaper) AMD graphics is just one step closer to irrelevancy in my book.
 
capt_cope said:
While I'm with you, I'm not holding my breath.

To even be in the same ballpark as nVidia (assuming they can fix the current space invader clusterfuck) AMD would need to drop a card that's at least 30% faster than the Vega 64 for $1000 or less. And if it doesn't happen soon nVidia will just release a 2080STI (Seriously it's a TI this time folks) version and drop the price of the 2080ti down to the point that AMD can't compete. Look at the Vega launch - the Vega 64 isn't a *bad* card, but it was over a year late AND cost (MSRP at least, I'll ignore the crypto bullshit) just as much as the year and a half old 1080 it traded blows with. If their flagship isn't on-par with the 2080ti for a bit cheaper (or nearly on-par and a LOT cheaper - like ~$799 MSRP cheaper) AMD graphics is just one step closer to irrelevancy in my book.
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I agree no one looking for top of the line from AMD should expect much if anything. What I am hoping for is a betterment of price/performance ratios in the middle/bottom end .. by AMDs own assessment, they are out of the top of the line race for at least 2 years if ever? That is unless navi is the ryzen 2/ epyc 2 of gpus and they chiplet mgpu things to the max and get high performance that way or something.
 
On Topic PLEASE. Plenty of other threads to discuss AMD in.
 
Yep, had two RTX 2080Ti FEs "crash to desktop" in my games. The first one I RMA'd to nVidia store (which their RMA process takes way too damned long). The replacement card was shipped directly from overseas, and it did the exact same thing. So I cut my losses and got a refund. I have zero confidence than any 2080Ti will last as long as my Titan X Pascal FE has (which I have gamed on for over two years now). The nVidia support reps of course ask all the normal questions, which I always reply "the Titian X Pascal does not crash, in the same system, same PCIe slot, same mobo, same PSU, same driver." They eventually gave in and honoured the RMAs.

To those of you who have living/working 2080Tis, consider yourselves lucky and I wish your cards a long and healthy life.
 
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ds9voy said:
As requested:

https://imgur.com/a/VRPN1CQ

Tracking Numbers:

FedEx: 472256408240
UPS: 1ZWF25470358406318
FedEx: 462206930971

Happy?

You guys defending Nvidia in this are COMPLETE JOKES and those of us living through this are tired of defending ourselves to people online who aren't even interested in these cards and are on some mindless quest to defend Nvidia. You have NO idea what is going on or how severe and widespread this problem is.

Go buy one yourself so you have some idea why we are so pissed. I've been dealing with trying to get a working one since AUGUST and have been running Intel UHD graphics since then, down from my previous Pascal card.

Each person has different tolerance levels for dealing with BS like this. Some people are out at card one. Some are out at card two. I'm out at card four and dealing with Nvidia defenders who never even bought ONE of these cards. It's just not worth this BS anymore.

On edit: I actually don't even blame you for being skeptical. I'm boxing the damn thing up as I type this and am in disbelief it has come to this point myself.
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Oh Snap! That's gonna leave a mark.
 
notarat said:
Oh Snap! That's gonna leave a mark.
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Is there anyone putting the pressure on Nvidia for this MAJOR fiasco? Is it really going to take class action to get this corrected? I found out my order for the Asus Strix 2080 TI OC has been delayed, "indefinitely"....wth!?! Makes me think that Asus/EVGA/MSI know something we common consumers do not. Are they delaying shipments because they know there are issues??? What can I do as a consumer that just wants a functioning PC? I can't even source an older 1080 TI for reasonable now.
 
2 minutes late and I am raising hell! Can't suspend my FedEx account this time....since they already did that.

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Big_Dally said:
Yeah I have been a diehard nVidia fan for two decades now, and this is the first time I have been this disappointed in the product quality. I fear the ball has been dropped.....
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You seriously deserve a prize. 2nd post in 14 years. Wow. I am not sure if that is horrible or simple greatness.

Edit: Just realized that you never posted until today. Wow.
 
Zeromus2003 said:
Is there anyone putting the pressure on Nvidia for this MAJOR fiasco? Is it really going to take class action to get this corrected? I found out my order for the Asus Strix 2080 TI OC has been delayed, "indefinitely"....wth!?! Makes me think that Asus/EVGA/MSI know something we common consumers do not. Are they delaying shipments because they know there are issues??? What can I do as a consumer that just wants a functioning PC? I can't even source an older 1080 TI for reasonable now.
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I think you only have two realistic options:

1. Keep exchanging 2080 Ti cards until you get one that does not fail.

2. Pay the top dollar price for a 1080 Ti that you know is going to work.

I feel bad for you guys. I really dodged a bullet because I ordered my 1080 Ti FE at launch for MSRP and I've had no issues with it at all... I almost did the same thing with the 2080 Ti but the high price made me hesitate thinking I would wait for one of the AIB cards and it was just long enough for the rumors and then Kyle's article about his card failures.
 
Big_Dally said:
Glad someone is chasing this rabbit, as I don't see alot about it on other sites.
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Zero Posts in 14 Years! ....made my day!

Yes when this info comes out at least it will either give the rest of the working cards peace of mind or a reason for a refund.
 
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