Whatever happened with all the capacitor issues on RTX cards?

[DeSelby]

Hi all,

I'm in a position to get an RTX 3090 for an extremely good price through my work, the only issue is that they're only working with Gigabyte.
Usually it's not an issue but I remember that Gigabyte was one of the companies that didn't use what was considered "good" capacitors on any of their products when that whole issue broke out last year.

I tried to google new info on it but I only get results from September when various companies responded regarding this issue.

Is it no longer an issue? Was it resolved somehow?

Thanks

 

[evhvis]

Was more about Nvidia pushing their cards too far with their boost clocks in the driver than the capacitors being bad. E.g. you had to have a good chip sample to be stable at the boost clocks they were running in their initial drivers. Afaik they backed off the boost clocks 50-100mhz and slowed down the boost rampup on the 3080 cards (there used to be a significant peak at the start of the boost). Basically the original reviews showed 2-5% higher performance than one would get with the "fixed" driver, but only the boost is lowered so the cards go above advertised core clock.

 

[DeSelby]

Thanks, just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Looks like I'll be getting the RTX 3090 Gaming OC 24G version.

 

[harmattan]

I technically have a 3080 that's supposed to have the "bad" capacitors, and I think the 3090 Gaming OC is among those as well. Mine is of the most stable cards I've ever had, before or after the driver "fix" to reduce boost clocks.