Hmm perhaps in this case , you may be right ... but i'm sure they won't just let a product die or be faulty because they probably spent millions on getting it to the consumer ... That would really hurt them. Best guess, they're going to mod the bios by updating drivers , which is fine for me , considering that it's a small loss in fps but the card becomes more stable. Either way , now that i know about the POSCAPS i might avoid zotac altogether unless i have no other choice.
Thing with Zotac as that its inferior in every way. Look at any tech youtubers videos. Paul from paulshardware compared Zotac Trinity, Gigabyte, Asus TUF & Nvidia reference 3080s and zotac was the worst in every scenario.
When i say every scenario i mean in every test, That's thermal test, average and max clocks and build quality.
All GPU's were tested at 100% fan speed under max load and zotac was the hotest AIB model while 4% slower then Asus TUF and 2% slower then Gigabyte. Asus TUF was coolest at default settings but strangely Gigabyte was coolest at 100% fan speed.
And i am not even talking about 1-2 degree C difference. Zotac was 11C hotter then Gigabyte model with both at 100% fan load.
Now here's the icing on the cake, zotac was also LOUDEST at max fan curve so clearly zotac has crapped out on components and power delivery. Its not about capacitor thing. Zotac was also about 70 MHz lower ON AVERAGE then other 3 cards and was extremely unstable above 1990 MHz while ASUS TUF could easily maintain 2040 MHz for longer periods of time because it has higher power limit. Zotac only goes to +5%.
This just proves that zotac is used to employ crappy components. I have been using graphics cards for around 20 years and the only graphics cards that went bad on me within first couple years was Pixelview 6600GT back in 2006 and Zotac 1080 Ti AMP Extreme. Both third grade brands.
No one in their right mind would prefer zotac trinity over Asus TUF because they have SAME MSRP. I would have had no issue with zotac if it was $50 cheaper but its not. We only buy Zotac because beggers can't be choosers. We have to buy what we can find in Pakistan. Still i will go on integrated graphics for months rather then put a zotac in my PC.