Edome

AFAlFouzan
That "FTW3 EG" only shows up for the FTW3 ELITE GAMING cards.
Im not sure about this but i think the FTW3 ELITE has a different bios than the other FTW3 cards.

Thanks for the clarification.
 
This was the BIOS I used: 
 
An FTW3 owner could check if this bios increases the power limit by setting power limit to 128%, core voltage to maximum and running 8K upscaled superposition benchmark to see if the GPU1 power % goes above 120% in AB.

I've tried the same exact bios on my evga 1080ti sc2 hybrid card, power usage was max 110% at about 300w with some peaks at 308 i have no clue on what is going on with this power limit thing, it's all over the place.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone else who has an EVGA 1080 Ti FE regularly hit 127%+ power while benching?

ritchiedrama
I ended up trying the slave bios (still on it) - it made no difference to my overclock, couldn't get it any higher still.
 
Am I okay to just remain on the slave bios, like is there any negative?? Too lazy to take side of my case off, again, lol.

Nope! I always roll with the slave bios! Flipped before first install and will remain there permanently.

Only negative would be if one wanted a total silent card with no fans run ing till it's almost too late as I think the fans start on master bios around 50-60c.

ritchiedrama

AHowes

ritchiedrama
I ended up trying the slave bios (still on it) - it made no difference to my overclock, couldn't get it any higher still.

Am I okay to just remain on the slave bios, like is there any negative?? Too lazy to take side of my case off, again, lol.

Nope! I always roll with the slave bios! Flipped before first install and will remain there permanently.

Only negative would be if one wanted a total silent card with no fans run ing till it's almost too late as I think the fans start on master bios around 50-60c.

My fan don't spin on the card at all (ftw3 hybrid) even on the slave bios, until 40c then they start (same as master bios for me).

Oh ok.. 2nd time ive read that tonight.. earlier from a FTW2 user. Must be the new way there programing it.

Seriously? Links please? Links to someone testing if possable.. ftw3 fans don't matter to me since I'm using a ek block. Just hope one can do +1000 on the men to get 13k.

Ok.. do you need to reinstall the drivers when you flash the bios or no?

Edome

AHowes
Seriously? Links please?

I've tested the first two.
 
Anyone with FTW3 can confirm the following temporary fix is working?
 
Flash this Palit 350W bios on your slave bios, set voltage +100% & power target +140% (= 350W) and run 8K optimized superposition.
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/193137/193137
 
During the benchmark power % should easily go above 132%, which on this bios (100% power target = 250W vs FTW3's 280W) equals to the 330W limit of FTW3 master bios.

Hi,  Just wondering if I flash the Palit bios onto my FTW3 will I then be able to control fans using MSI AB synchronously?  not concerned if I can't control them separately as noise isn't a problem for me

Flashing to another vbios such as the xoc vbios will resolve the issue, but others are looking for an official fix from evga.

Drakke01

Sajin
Flashing to another vbios such as the xoc vbios will resolve the issue, but others are looking for an official fix from evga.

I have one of the FTW3's with the 12 GHz memory chip.  Will there be any issues using one of these other BIOS's with that different chip?

Another vbios should work fine, but your memory will get clocked down to 11 GHz from running a 11 GHz vbios.

Yep, you can always flash back if something happens since the ftw3 comes with 2 vbioses. Let us know how it works out for you if you choose to flash another vbios.

dual109
 
Hi,  Just wondering if I flash the Palit bios onto my FTW3 will I then be able to control fans using MSI AB synchronously?  not concerned if I can't control them separately as noise isn't a problem for me

You can probably control only the GPU fan and the power & memory fans will be on auto.

Sajin
My kingpin hits the same 117-120% limit when running the stock oc vbios on the card. Running the extreme watercooling oc vbios fixes the issue. See post #253 in this thread for details.

Evga can fix the issue with a vbios update.

Then this is probably what's happening here:
 
Evga vbios has 2 different locations where the power limit is written.
On Evga slave bios only the first location has the 127% limit written correctly, Evga forgot to update the second location from 117->127% (or 120%->130% for the kingpin OC/LN2 bios).
Non-Evga cards read only the first location and thus work correctly with the higher limit.
Evga cards read from both locations and thus do not work with the higher limit.

AHowes
Ok.. do you need to reinstall the drivers when you flash the bios or no?

It is definitely recommended

Drakke01
I gave the Palit vbios a shot and attached are my limits when running the 8k superposition.

What was your max voltage during the run?
 
Any difference in the results with power target @ 132% vs 140% ?

Then unfortunately it seems FTW3 power limit above 330W can only be achieved with the XOC bios or with a new bios issued by Evga.
 
Let's hope the latter is technically possible.
The FTW3 PCB should be similar enough for other cards' vbios to raise the power limit, so this issue seems very weird especially as the slave bios correctly works on non-evga cards.
 
Attached is my 8k superposition run on the 350W Palit bios on non-evga card. Power target & voltage slider maximized.