Sharing its findings with PC World, EVGA has now revealed that while it wasn’t able to replicate the issue using a copy of the New World beta, under X-ray analysis the less-than-two-dozen impacted RTX 3090s it received - all originating from an early 2020 production run - displayed “poor workmanship” on the soldering around the MOSFET circuits that powered the cards. EVGA also dismissed theories suggesting failures were related to RTX 3090 fan controllers, explaining errors some users were seeing resulted from third-party monitoring tools such as HWInfo and GPU-Z incorrectly reporting noise from the i2c bus as the fan controller failing. In total, its says the affected batch of RTX 3090s accounted for less than 1 percent of cards sold.
