First nvidia gtx590 burned

Only three days after the launch of Nvidia's new Dual GPU: Geforce GTX590. The companions of TechPowerUP and SweClockers have seen their graphics burn when overclocking it:

Since the discovery that graphics exploded, Nvidia has released 2 drivers with increased OCP protection. With the latest driver, when the OCP comes into action, it is even possible to reduce the frequency of the graph to values ​​lower than what the graph would theoretically have to go in stock, which can lead to performance drops and the much-feared shuttering. Even with all this, it still cannot be confirmed that with this latest driver the problem is solved and we intuit that NVIDIA will release new drivers in the next few hours / days to try to solve it definitively.

GTX590 AND GTX580 PCB

It may be a little relevant data, but already at a glance we can see in a comparative photo between the PCB of a Gtx 580 and a Gtx 590 that each of the two GPUs of the GTX 590 have one phase less and these are visibly smaller compared to the reference GTX 580. Hopefully things like these or resulting in savings in production cost are not the cause of such dreaded "explosions". It is certainly still too early for conjecture or hypothesis, as we do not yet know the real cause of the problem. Drivers problem? Design error? Savings in production costs resulting from using worse materials? At the moment Nvidia blames it on a bad overclock with dangerous voltages and inadequate drivers: ”The few press reports on GTX 590 boards dying were caused by overvoltage to unsafe levels (as high as 1.2V vs. default voltage of 0.91 to 0.96V), and using older drivers that have lower levels of overcurrent protection. Rest assured that GTX 590 operates reliably at default voltages, and our 267.84 launch drivers provide even more additional levels of protection for overclockers. For more information on overclocking and overcurrent protection on GTX 590 please see our knowledge base article here: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2947 “” The dead GTX 590 cards reported by the press were for manipulating the voltages (overvolting) to dangerous levels (up to 1.2V with the default voltage being between 0.91 to 0.96V) in combination with the use of old drivers with low levels of protection against overcurrent. Rest assured that the GTX 590 offers reliable operation at its default voltages, and our 267.84 drivers offer an additional level of protection for overclockers. ”Hopefully for the good of the consumer and for Nvidia itself, it is correct. and they can solve these problems through drivers. Whatever the end result, we will continue to inform you