Snipes7
I don't get why this hasn't been addressed already with a simple bios update for those who care about it! I mean they could provide a 11GHz bios update for their 1080s. Why not provide a bios update that gives users what the card is advertised to deliver. I mean I can put a lable of 200% on the PT and most won't even notice it only hitting 117% those who do show the middle finger and say we working with nvidia on it they fix it in a driver update for damage control. EVGA dude, you are pissing your top customers off that buy the most expensive of cards. They won't forget that you were basically lying about what you promised the card could do. Honestly the Asus Strix has the better cooler anyways. I also feel like their VRM section is more solid. Also a really nice idea is the two pwm fan headers on the card so you can connect case fans that turn up and down like the GPU and are not bound to the CPU anymore which is usually not what one would prefere. Sry for rambling, that comes from someone who spend way too much money on EVGA. Have some honor EVGA, give ppl their 127% like it says on the slider.

AHowes

HeavyHemi

Snipes7
I don't get why this hasn't been addressed already with a simple bios update for those who care about it! I mean they could provide a 11GHz bios update for their 1080s. Why not provide a bios update that gives users what the card is advertised to deliver. I mean I can put a lable of 200% on the PT and most won't even notice it only hitting 117% those who do show the middle finger and say we working with nvidia on it they fix it in a driver update for damage control. EVGA dude, you are pissing your top customers off that buy the most expensive of cards. They won't forget that you were basically lying about what you promised the card could do. Honestly the Asus Strix has the better cooler anyways. I also feel like their VRM section is more solid. Also a really nice idea is the two pwm fan headers on the card so you can connect case fans that turn up and down like the GPU and are not bound to the CPU anymore which is usually not what one would prefere. Sry for rambling, that comes from someone who spend way too much money on EVGA. Have some honor EVGA, give ppl their 127% like it says on the slider.

My own personal take on this is that in combination with the increased power target and the increased clocks that they found during testing an unacceptable level of failures at the 127% power level.
It's hard to extrapolate failure rates from online complaints. However, my impression is we see quite a few complaints about unstable FTW cards, increasing the power target of the GPU would naturally also affect stability.  I'm just cracking up that with a lowly FE model I'm still in the top 100 GPU scores in TS Extreme on a stock BIOS with no mods but the Hybrid cooler and I typically hit ~130% power running benches.

Then fine.. release an extreme water cooling bios for the ftw3 like the kingpin. :)

Not like there a shortage of copper blocks from evga or ek like there is for the kingpin.

Superbxxx

Snipes7
I don't get why this hasn't been addressed already with a simple bios update for those who care about it! I mean they could provide a 11GHz bios update for their 1080s. Why not provide a bios update that gives users what the card is advertised to deliver. I mean I can put a lable of 200% on the PT and most won't even notice it only hitting 117% those who do show the middle finger and say we working with nvidia on it they fix it in a driver update for damage control. EVGA dude, you are pissing your top customers off that buy the most expensive of cards. They won't forget that you were basically lying about what you promised the card could do. Honestly the Asus Strix has the better cooler anyways. I also feel like their VRM section is more solid. Also a really nice idea is the two pwm fan headers on the card so you can connect case fans that turn up and down like the GPU and are not bound to the CPU anymore which is usually not what one would prefere. Sry for rambling, that comes from someone who spend way too much money on EVGA. Have some honor EVGA, give ppl their 127% like it says on the slider.

+1

AHowes

Luigi408
This is completely unacceptable from EVGA. I will personally not buy a graphics card from them when the next high end cards arrive. The only reason I wanted EVGA this time is because of the hybrid version.
I have been waiting for this to be resolved for months, and they keep selling the same card to the public. I hope someone starts talking from the tech review channels or EVGA gets sued or both. This is complete false advertising on their part. EVGA has messed up so much in recent history with their products that they don’t deserve any loyalty from their customers. Horrible job EVGA.

Yup.. next card will be a fe card. Slap a ek block on it and be good to go.

Andrew_WOT

AHowes

Luigi408
This is completely unacceptable from EVGA. I will personally not buy a graphics card from them when the next high end cards arrive. The only reason I wanted EVGA this time is because of the hybrid version.
I have been waiting for this to be resolved for months, and they keep selling the same card to the public. I hope someone starts talking from the tech review channels or EVGA gets sued or both. This is complete false advertising on their part. EVGA has messed up so much in recent history with their products that they don’t deserve any loyalty from their customers. Horrible job EVGA.

Yup.. next card will be a fe card. Slap a ek block on it and be good to go.

From ASUS.

Sajin

Alan1080ti
So we can just get over this with the xoc or whatever that bios was posted before right? Ex the Asus or whatever to unlock the vol?

https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2716750

Sajin

bcavnaugh

Sajin

Alan1080ti
So we can just get over this with the xoc or whatever that bios was posted before right? Ex the Asus or whatever to unlock the vol?

https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2716750

Why has EVGA not correct this issue by now?

There are multiple responses from EVGA_JacobF in this thread.

tech73x
7 months for what seems to be a " bios fix " is far from helpful, and that seems to be the general feeling for this problem. How many Nvidia updates have been released since this was brought to EVGA's attention?

PietroBR
 
Nope.
It will be fixed on the 2080Ti F.E. .

As I said before, the solution for now on is to buy a F.E. card, and slap a Hybrid Kit / Waterblock on it.
No sense anymore in spending 100$ more for a FTW card that can't draw 127% of P.L. as stated on the marketing.

PietroBR

Andrew_WOT

PietroBR
 
Nope.
It will be fixed on the 2080Ti F.E. .

As I said before, the solution for now on is to buy a F.E. card, and slap a Hybrid Kit / Waterblock on it.
No sense anymore in spending 100$ more for a FTW card that can't draw 127% of P.L. as stated on the marketing.

How is that a solution for FTW3 owners?

That's the point. It's not a solution, and for the looks of it, there will be no solution for this issue for us, FTW3 owners.
 

Edward_Teach
 
It's not going to help FTW3 owners but neither is EVGA. We are screwed.They have lost a lot of good karma over this. I had thought better of EVGA until this issue. There is no sense in spending the extra money for a card that can't beat a water cooled founders card. Save your money next time around. Maybe give ASUS a try, I haven't heard about their cards not hitting the stated max power limit. Since it looks like EVGA is adopting their customer service policy of stalling issues, what separates them from companies like asus or asrock ect...

Edward got the idea here.
No sense spending more, if a watercooled F.E. can beat a FTW card.
That's the lesson I learned with this issue.

I'm not saying I won't buy with EVGA anymore. I'm just saying I won't buy any SC/FTW/CLASSY card from EVGA (maybe the Kingpin... who knows).
In fact, in 5 year I pretend to buy a F.E. from EVGA when time comes to another PC Update.