Amazon defends New World as safe while EVGA ships replacement cards

What’s causing GPUs to die while playing Amazon’s beta game, New World? No one seems to know yet, but EVGA confirmed it has already shipped replacement GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 cards to affected customers.A company spokesman confirmed to PCWorld that it has enough GPUs to replace reportedly dead cards, and it would cross-ship cards directly to impacted customers under warranty.EVGA wouldn’t say exactly how many dead card reports it had received, but the spokesman described it as a “small handful.”The company also said it has received no new reports of GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 cards dying since Amazon Games patched New World to implement frame rate lock options in-game, as well as “clamp down” on frame rates in the menu screen. To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3626349/amazon-new-world-might-destroy-your-geforce-rtx-3090.html#tk.rss_all