Actually Hardcore Overclocking has published a video alleging that NVIDIA has been skimping on memory inductors and other components for their reference GTX 780/780 Ti/Titan(XM)/980Ti cards. Numerous photos of PCBs with burned out inductors are shown, and some commentators are calling this planned obsolescence.



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Source: [H]ardOCP – AHO: Memory Inductors Are Frequently Burning Out on Certain NVIDIA GPUs