Quote Originally Posted by Aten-Ra View Post
Can you explain why the VRM design is weak and insufficient for default settings ??
Sources close to engineers at EVGA complained that VRMs used in the GTX 590 were not adequate, and from what I understand Nvidia chose to use driver level power restriction/throttling instead of a more expensive solution.

It seems it was a decision made to compete with the 6990 on price and they believed the driver would be sufficient enough to protect the card.