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Evga's icx cooler detailed (updated: ICX upgrade program)

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Seems kinda unnecessary to me, I bought my card a month ago and the hottest its gotten was 71C. Still, the small improvements would have been nice to have :P

 

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15 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

EVGA is having a ICX upgrade program for current owners of EVGA 10 series cards

 

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The old card must be registered with their EVGA accounts and the upgrade cost $100.

Rest of the ICX cards are revealed as well

 

http://wccftech.com/evga-geforce-10-icx-graphics-cards-launch/

so buying a new card has 30ish dollar price hike and if you RMA one you have to pay 100 usd. Shameless.

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Requested mine. Will see how it goes. Or when for that matter. :D

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5 hours ago, Paragon_X said:

so buying a new card has 30ish dollar price hike and if you RMA one you have to pay 100 usd. Shameless.

You're getting a new card, not just a shroud. The PCB has changed a bit to accent the new cooler.

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22 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

You're getting a new card, not just a shroud. The PCB has changed a bit to accent the new cooler.

Yes i know. What i am saying is buying a new card costs +30 from the ACX design. If you have an ACX card and want to upgrade it costs 100 usd.

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20 hours ago, Paragon_X said:

Yes i know. What i am saying is buying a new card costs +30 from the ACX design. If you have an ACX card and want to upgrade it costs 100 usd.

Because they have additional costs on their side and likely won't be able to sell off the cards you send back? Yeah, totally shameless for them to give you an upgrade/step-up option rather than just leaving you with the old card that you willingly paid for.

 

I'm a little left out. Still waiting for the EVGA hybrid coolers for Titan X Pascal. While I'm glad they focussed on fixing the issues with their cards, I wish they hadn't needed to leave Titan owners behind to do so.

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4 hours ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Because they have additional costs on their side and likely won't be able to sell off the cards you send back? Yeah, totally shameless for them to give you an upgrade/step-up option rather than just leaving you with the old card that you willingly paid for.

 

I'm a little left out. Still waiting for the EVGA hybrid coolers for Titan X Pascal. While I'm glad they focussed on fixing the issues with their cards, I wish they hadn't needed to leave Titan owners behind to do so.

So am I supposed to feel sorry for their fuck up? and have a total cost for a 1070 that is closing on a 1080 because guess who is gonna pay the shipping to send the card back?

Money spent:
480 euro for the card
97 euro for the step up
80 euro shipping.
TOTAL 657 euro.

 

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1 minute ago, Paragon_X said:

So am I supposed to feel sorry for their fuck up? and have a total cost for a 1070 that is closing on a 1080 because guess who is gonna pay the shipping to send the card back?

Money spent:
480 euro for the card
97 euro for the step up
80 euro shipping.
TOTAL 657 euro.

 

What fuck up? The cards work perfectly fine, they just run a little hot. A couple units had issues, but that's the case for any electronic device, and they were covered by EVGA under the terms of the warranty.

 

There's nothing for you to to feel sorry for them about, other than some people blowing things massively out of proportion.

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2 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

What fuck up? The cards work perfectly fine, they just run a little hot. A couple units had issues, but that's the case for any electronic device, and they were covered by EVGA under the terms of the warranty.

 

There's nothing for you to to feel sorry for them about, other than some people blowing things massively out of proportion.

As I mentioned above Its not only the VRMs its also the fitment of the vRams pads they didnt fit flush to the chips or made no contact at all. This is extremely dangerous as it creates hot pockets of air that could destroy that memory module at any time. Thats why they mention the fitment on their new promo materials to show that they solved this issue amongst the other.

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5 minutes ago, Paragon_X said:

As I mentioned above Its not only the VRMs its also the fitment of the vRams pads they didnt fit flush to the chips or made no contact at all. This is extremely dangerous as it creates hot pockets of air that could destroy that memory module at any time. Thats why they mention the fitment on their new promo materials to show that they solved this issue amongst the other.

Umm no. The modules were all still within spec on the tests they did. Memory modules don't just magically fail because hot air is near them, their cooling capability would have to be exceeded. Likewise, even getting that close to the edge of their rated heat levels was only happening under extreme stress tests, not under normal loads, and only for the memory modules closest to the VRMs. Even a heavy gaming load left both the VRMs and memory modules well below their rated heat levels.

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