Used to mine crypto-currencies, the graphics cards would have been stored in very unsuitable premises.
” The shits always flying in a squadron AMD recently faced two issues involving its graphics cards. If we wait for new Radeon RX 7900XTX, it seems that the situation of the RX 6000 is finally quite simple.
No driver issues
At the start of the month, regulars on the Reddit platform reported a problem with the Radeon RX 6800 XT and 6900 XT. Specialized in the repair of graphics cards, the youtubeur KrisFix had highlighted damage to the rails of the SoC, memory and memory controller.
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Of the 61 damaged cards he had in his hands, 48 were beyond repair and suspicion turned to the 22.11.2 driver, the main common point between the different cards. A WHQL-certified pilot who actually had nothing to do with the untimely death of the Radeons.
Very quickly, photos of the cards damaged in this way had shown real physical damage to the GPUs… hardly compatible with a faulty driver. Still needed proof.
Humidity and GPUs don’t mix
Logically, KrisFix continued its investigations and discovered a common point between these different cards: most (all?) of them were sold by the same user, and this, in the space of two weeks. A user who would have used them for cryptomining.
That said, KrisFix does not directly link card damage to cryptomining. No, rather than 24-hour operation for intensive calculations, it is more the place of storage of the graphics cards that is pointed out.
Through its long explanatory video, KrisFix evokes more than 150 hours of testing on many cards using different designs. It shows that the storage conditions – probably in a very humid environment – would have led to an accumulation of humidity at the level of the GPUs which would have tolerated it very badly. Incidentally, said video is of real didactic interest for anyone who speaks English.
Source : Videocardz
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