I still can ' t grasp the fact that when this game was revealed , I was only 15 . Damn time flies . and a good game takes a while to make . <| sep |> Please behave in a more civil and mature manner . <| sep |> I dunno . would like to get a confirmation on the caps used , but we probably won ' t . If they are 105 C my theory is that the MLCC caps are aeging prematurely due to running at high temps . The failure mode will be random based on usage time and how long they ' ve spent at those temps . But they could fail cold if they ' ve reached the end of their finite life . The fact that we ' re seeing this now months after the cards have been released and not at inception supports my theory . From my experience this seems to be the most plausible explanation at this time , given the facts we ' ve seen . EVGA themselves seem to think likewise .