No response from ChrisB - sent him a note last week on Thursday and followed up today. EVGA should investigate a better way to do this. :) 

По русски кто нибудь понимает тут?

Is the optional BIOS the same BIOS for the 780 TI KPE and the 780 TI Classy?

Just sent a request as well ;)

johnnyw
Today finally tried to replace the stock LN2 bios with the optional updated bios, but the update doesnt seem to work for me on some reason.
 
Did as suggested on instructions at the secure link send my ChrisB. Downloaded 2888_Update.zip, extracted the zip to dekstop, but now when i click the update.exe it just opens command prompt window for split second, which then closes on its own and doesnt do anything.
 
Any help/tips?

Just ran it myself and worked like a charm (for both cards) ... I copied the 3 files to "my documents" and ran the exe from there

Damn this is annoying, really cant figure out why it doesnt work for me. I thought the file might be corrupt or something, but yesterday ChrisB sent new link to me and still doing same thing with new files :(
 
Took video with my phone to show what it does (well actually doesnt do)
 

 
 
Tried to run it with administrator, start the Update.exe directly with command prompt and nothing works :(

What is probably going on is the pcie slots are not what the install script wants so it opens then closes. You may have more than one card like me and that also could be the problem. I had to do it manually and pass a -flag to change my ln2 bios updates to the right pcie slots. I don't remember the exact command and it would probably be wrong for your set up anyway but you need to google NVflash and commands to view all the extra options so that you can use nvflash to read your pcie slots then pass along the right flag to do the flash.

johnnyw
 
what is your rig's specifications (ie: OS, RAM, MoBo, CPU, etc.,)  Also, are you trying to flash this to a 780 Ti and not a normal 780?  (Make sure, because it may be triggering a fail-safe.)  
 
Also, does it work with other modded BIOSes such as Skyn3t's BIOSes?  
 
Jason

I find it rather annoying when I drop about $1800 usd for two of these cards that come with horrible stock and ln2 bios, and that was well over a year ago. As several have already mentioned, the voltage hits a rather low ceiling. The update makes it stable like a reference card, but it is still far from satisfactory due to low voltage/power limits. Evga designed and marketed these cards for OCing, and they simply don't out of the box, or even with the optional bios. I don't know if the KP Edition received the same cold shoulder as the Classified Hydrocoppers, but it's sad that we must turn to unofficial consumer altered versions (such as skyn3t) to get even a mild OC that your reference cards can exceed on stock bios and air cooling. So you can imagine, a high OC absolutely requires an unofficial bios. It's been a year since this optional bios came out, and it took a long time for it to come along in the first place. Should we just accept that there will be no official solution for this inherently defective, or at the very least, falsely advertised product?
 
My friends with lesser air-cooled cards can OC higher and produce higher framerates for far less cost and headache. I've been a loyal customer for years:gtx 480> Quad sli 7950 GX2>sli 8800 GTS> sli 670 FTW. Sadly, now I can only recommend non-premium evga products. The lack of functionality, support, and follow up on these Classified 780 TI Hydrocoppers has been insulting.
 
i7-3930k @ 4.4GHz
Asus Rampage IV Formula
Corsair 16GB Quad Channel Kit
SLI EVGA 780 TI Classified Hydrocopper
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB + various other ssd/hdd
Enermax Revo Galaxy 1250W PSU
Mountain Mod U2 UFO Custom Case
Custom Water Cooling
Win7 Pro 64

Thank you. I have similar problems were resolved