The thing is we now know it was a bad batch. Until a few days ago we were all speculating about what could it be, firmware, hardware, quality itself, etc.Soo.. Why did you wait to finally get the best card on the market?
If there's a bad batch then it's a bad batch, but it could also be a fake.. In either case you just got to send it back to the reseller since it's defective.
I don't get why people are doubting that there could be any hardware problems with the newest batch. It's common in all electronics production for there to be bad batches and defective units... Just ask all the xenon and zephyr 360 owners...