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[H]ard|Gawd
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It's not a founders edition. The failures aren't space invaders. The issues I'm having are really difficult to nail down. First two cards artifacted badly, they stuttered and would crash games and I would get this annoying screen flicker/tearing that put a bunch of strain on my eyes. So, whatever the hell it was doing behind the scenes wasn't right.Get the replacement, have it fail, sell to Kyle at full price... win-win !!
EDIT: even better, if they still have your defective card (I didn't read the whole thread sorry) ask them to return it and sell it to Kyle...
I updated the BIOS on the card, that's new. There wasn't a BIOS update for the Black Edition until like, today, as far as I am aware. Running it downstairs I had a super odd visual hang while watching amazon video. The card kicked an error and my Denon choked for about 3 seconds. I figured out the Chroma issue. Damn Nvidia isn't allowing me to push 4:4:4 to the Denon. Which pisses me off even more because I'm tired of buying receivers that don't support full color compression. I switched the video to Full RGB, which is about as close as I can get the max chroma. Had a couple other hard video chokes that I had initially dismissed as the Receiver switching processing on and off... However, thinking back, never had that issue with the 1080GTX that was in there before.
I'm going to pull the Denon out of the loop, push the video straight from the board to the TV. I suspect that will correct my Chroma problem, I already have optical going to the receiver from an external Creative Sound Card. I will also be able to see whatever oddities were making the video choke when pushed through the receiver.
I had heard some good stuff about EVGA over and over again. After reading their bullshit response... I will never buy another card from them.