It really wasn’t the unlocked fps that caused the failure on those. Faulty soldering on a select batch of the boards did. You may be able to rma that gpu, worth a try.
I’m now on my second 3090 FE. The first one went pop, and took out the slot on my motherboard. 3090 was replace via RMA, but I had to buy the replacement motherboard, CPU, and RAM.
It wasn’t an overheating issue, it just popped.
It’s worth setting an FPS limit for the sim, for me that’s 60.
Let’s just get this straight here, software does not have code written in it to cause the GPU to die.
Your GPU had a fault with it to begin with and just happens to be FS2020 is what caused it to finally give (like wise The New World brought to light dodgy components/soldering on peoples GPU’s). This also happened when GTA V came out on PC and caused peoples GPU’s to artefact).
Your GPU should happily run 100% load all day long without an issue, 99.99999% of them do, the ones that fail have hardware faults to begin with.
Since the update, your GPU will be used more as the CPU is being utilised better and giving the GPU more frames to do, running a million fps on your GPU should never kill it, it will just max its power draw out and get warm.
The 3090’s don’t have some underlying issue, its just a few here n there that have manufacturing defects, my 3090 pulls 450w all day long when in games and ticks along just fine, maxes around 71deg (its a 3090 Suprim X, it has great cooling).
Yes some cards are DOA, or have defects, but its such a small amount, thats why we RMA them :-), dont blame software for finding a hardware issue, blame the card manufacturer for releasing shoddy components.
Likewise people say FS2020 does not play nice with overclocks, er no. The overclock is not stable, simple as that.
Limit your FPS. Sim Update 5 thrashes the GPU. (Including during update splash screens and the men etc.) I’ve seen my 3090 running up to ridiculous frame rates during these phases of the sim unless limited.
3090 has a lot of Vram on rear of PCB and really benefits from good cooling on both sides.
You should change it to “some of the first batch of 3090’s” because the first ones that came out had cheap components. I have the Asus Strix 3090 OC, which is considered by techradar as the fastest 3090 in the market and the temperatures are perfect, even though it is factory overclocked. Techradar took the card apart and showed that Asus used the highest quality and most expensive parts in the OEM market. All the latest cards are perfectly fine. I am glad I did not rush to get one right away.