TECH NEWS – So the company’s current top-of-the-line Nvidia cards won’t crack, which was a serious problem!

In fact, it wasn’t just the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 that were affected, but also the RTX 3000 series, which had a bug that was the result of a design flaw: the PCB (printed circuit board) could crack in a certain area, which caused the PCIe lanes inside the graphics card to be damaged, preventing data movement and rendering the GPU completely unusable. People complained to Gigabyte, but the manufacturer refused to replace the card. On Reddit, however, we now see that Gigabyte has instead taken action and redesigned their cards so that there are no cracks at all.

These cards are hitting stores with the original packaging, but as v1.1, and you can see the comparison between the old and new versions in the second and third images below. The user who posted the pictures (MisinformationAlways) pointed out the more robust 70a VRMs, and thus the design is much more stable thanks to the better weight distribution. Of course, this is not a solution for affected users, as it does not fix their cracked (and not cheap!) cards, and Gigabyte has not officially discussed the matter, so we don’t know exactly which products are affected.

However, with the redesigned PCB, Gigabyte has admitted that they made a serious mistake and if they want to be fair to their customers, they will replace all cracked cards with another one, so instead of refusing to replace them, they will make sure that gamers don’t have to invest in another graphics card out of their own pocket. Of course, it remains to be seen how long the replacement period will last, and the public should be informed which cards are affected.

How did this happen? Were the products not tested for this within the company? After all, this is not a smaller, lesser-known manufacturer.

Source: WCCFTech, Reddit