Still no word?
 
Remember this guys, the next time it comes to spending your money.

What is more upsetting than the extra bit of OC we may be missing out on, is that there has been no reply from EVGA.
Not even "we have confirmed this issue and are working on it" 

Emailed again, hopefully something soon.

I use Furmark for fast overclocking results, checking for artifacts and to compare with other post in this thread and done as recommended in this thread by others. I could careless if it's blacklisted.
 
I feel like I have been ripped off. This is not a knee jerk reaction as I will illustrate. I paid about 1/2 for my 1080Ti FE it clocks higher, has a better bios and gives me better bench results albeit marginally.
 
The issue isn't just Power Limit there are other problems with the bios as well.
 
The following bench results were done on two different machines running Superposition 1080P Extreme bench at default settings. I spent an entire day overclocking both cards to their max core and memory clocks. All running the same bench. Every group of setting that could pass the bench were benched 3 time in succession. System was restarted after every crash before proceeding. History for HWiNFO64 and MSI AB was cleared to reset Min. Max. & Avg. data moments before executing bench and results were logged from screen capture at the end of 3 successful runs. The sampling below is but a small part of the overall testing.
 
 
                                                                                            Superposition
                                                                                          1080P Extreme
                       HWiNFO64 Data                                                  Score                            MSI AB Data
 
              CV          PL           TL            CC           MC         FS                    P%      CC           MC         TL
1080Ti FE watercooled 
SET         +97      120         90           +210      +350      auto    1) 6277      9       139         405         28       MIN
MIN       .650v     7%          28c         139         405         0        2) 6287      99     2114       5859       48       MAX
MAX      1.081v   118%       48c         2114       5856       0         3) 6244     
AVG       .912v     68%        40c         1402       3154       0      Avg. 6269
 
1080 Ti FTW3 SLAVE BIOS ICX cooling
SET         Auto      127         90         +77       +98      Auto        1) 6276     
MIN       .650v      6%          29c        139         405        40%    2) 6247        5          139         405     29    MIN     
MAX      1.063v   106%        64c       2063       6102       78%     3) 6252      107       2063       6102    64    MAX
AVG       .955v     76%        59c        1624       4967       66     Avg. 6258
 
CV= core voltage PL= Power Limit TL=Temp Limit CC= Core Clock MC=Mem Clock FS=Fan Speed% P%=power %
 
All in red are problematic in their own way.
#1 max vcore is 1.081v on FE and only 1.063 on FTW3 even if I apply 100% Core Increase on AB and or Precision XOC.
#2 I get higher Power Limit on FE than I do on FTW3 on Normal or Slave Bios
#3 I get a higher stable Core Clock on my FE
#4 I get a higher average score from the FE
#5 There is no difference in bench score at my max clocks Slave vs Normal bios on the FTW3
 
I've been overclocking for 20 plus years. I'm no novice. Been water cooling nearly as long
I always start by testing default thoroughly with multiple benches synthetic and real world.
GPUs I test Core 1st and work it up slow until I see artifacts then back it off for benching where I work it up slowly until bench crashes and back it off again before I begin overclocking the memory where the process begins again. 
In all my years I have never had an EVGA GPU so tightly binned with so little head room. Look no further than my FE which out clocks the FTW3. I pray it's the bios which is obviously a dud.
What has kept me buying EVGA since the did away with lifetime warranty is there refined bios this is 120% out of character. 
 
FTW3

1080Ti FE

 
 
 
 

@HeavyHemi You are 100% correct my only reason for using Furmark is scanning for artifacts and I used it here because several other posted their results with it and @Sajin illustrated how to use it so I did.
The Superposition 1080P extreme bench is pretty good though just not at getting the FTW3 above 105.5 PL in my testing with an expected 127 PL as advertised.
My FE had not trouble working as advertised and exceeded my expectations.

AHowes
Maybe you guys are forgetting the the fe don't have as large of a power delivery as the ftw3 or any other custom card.. so when you see a high power percentage its smaller then the ftw3.

Don't know off the top of my head but isint the fe with its 6+8 pin connections using like 250-275 watts compared to the ftw3 with its dual 8 pin that uses way more power?

The FE has 250W stock and 300W at 120%.
The FTW3 has 280W stock and 327.6W at 117% or 355.6W at 127%
 
Multiple people have mentioned the power limit for the FTW3 does not go above 117%. Not 110% or 120% but 117% exactly which is too coincidental for it not to be related. 

EVGA emailed me this morning and said they needed a link to this post, so I provided one to them and informed them that this problem is getting more spread out by the day. We will see,

There is enough documentation now to say that this problem exists in all FTW3 cards no matter if you have seen it, logged it, etc. What is troubling is that we are going on over 6 weeks with multiple owners stating this problem with only 1 test from EVGA. This is troubling not only from the problem standpoint but the sheer lack of customer support from EVGA. I really do not like to put it that way but it is what it is,

Also while using the other bios does the clocks dance slot as in clocks move up and down every 1-2 seconds as normal on thr offical bios or are the clocks stable and just go down as the temp rises on the card as normal.. like every 4c of rise the clock drops a step??

Ive noticed from YouTube reviews of other non fe cards the clocks are stable while playing games.. while the clocks go up and down constantly on the ftw3, just like a founders edition card. :/

Strange.. just played cod iw in 4k maxed settings and it held my clocks stable at 2050mhz.. crazy.

Now it wasn't maxing out the card in usage. Only 80-95% if that has anything to do with it.

In firestrike benchmark it's all over the place as well as in bf1 in 4k.

Hey guys,
 
Sorry for the delay in updating on this. We have been working on this and will have an update soon.

Sweet!

EVGA_JacobF
Hey guys,
 
Sorry for the delay in updating on this. We have been working on this and will have an update soon.

Thank goodness

tech73x
Let's keep this at the top until we all hear something ,

+1 

Yep I sure hope there is a fix soon new bios or trade up if it wasn't already top of the food chain. No doubt they are working hard on it but I have witnessed similar issue in BF4 on my FE so this may well be a software related issue or a complicated issue of how it's supposed to work. For what every reason with everything maxed out I'm not seeing the power % hit anything over 105% when set to 120%. I got a feeling a well worded fix will come shortly something like the GTX970 issue. Hard to imagine it will sit well with most FTW3 owners if that's the case.

Just in case anyone else is having this problem,