X48 Rampage Formula Preview.

[Roger_D25]

Thats crazy man, it looks to me that some type of fluid leaked out of the block during transport and leaked onto the back of the card? Does it look like any fluid leaked onto the actual PCB, or was it only on the backplate? It was difficult to see from the pictures you posted but what exactly is blocking the inlet/outlet holes, you mentioned pieces of plastic inside? All of these things are bad enough (and I'd RMA the card for any one of them let alone all of them together) but I'm most surprised about the SLI issue? I wonder what Quality Inspector at eVGA let that card pass through testing (the darn block is clearly blocking both the outlet and inlet! With this all said A-Grey did you purchase this card brand new in a sealed package or was it a used card (given what you paid for it I imagine it was brand new)? If it was a sealed package than the issue most likey lies with eVGA, if it was used than the retailer is most likely to blame? If eVGA is to blame I'd pass it off as a one-time mistake and I'm sure they will take care of the problem with no issues for you (then again I'm not sure how eVGA handles their European product warranty issues, it might be far more involved than it is here in the States)? Please keep us posted if you would regarding this!

[Alien Grey]

It's brand new. It came in a sealed package. There is only EVGA to blame for this.

The fluid is all over the graphics card. The inlet and outlet are both to small and the little pieces of plastic block the waterflow. This is probably the reason why the card is wet. You would have to remove the cover from the cooler to drain all the fluid.

If this is the best they can give me I just want my money back.

[leo27]

@A-Grey
That totally sucks A-Grey i haven't head of that happening before and wouldn't expect this of evga. If you would like to try another brand i have had nothing but success with bfg and they have water cooled models as well.

After i tweaked my memory timings (Settings on page 121) i have had two system stops. The system just locks up and i have to hard reset. Now it obviously is the memory however the settings i posted where 11 passes HCI memtest stable and 50 passes linX stable. I have stopped using memtest to adjust the tWTR and the tREF and the system has been fine.

Why wasn't this instability picked up in testing i was sure the testing was adequate??