Yeah they won't let me rma it, said its performing as advertised even though its much lower then the other card. Can't even return it for refund because i'm not satisfied with it, so much for 30 days returns.

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14 days? Always thought it was 30. And they got ya cause you need them to issue an RMA for refund and they choose not to cause your not happy. :/

Hmmm.. stuff to remember next time I'm gona pull the trigger.

I bet you'll be real hesitant next time you see a new Kingpin card.. since it's the only place you can buy it.

I remember the one time I had an issue with a evga card. Bought 2 1080ftw hybrid cards.. one had the black screen 100% fan issue I noticed after a week or so. Wanted to return both as I didnt feel confident that the other wouldnt do the same shortly. They didnt have the classifieds in stock. They wanted to charge me the restocking fee and return shipping! I was like that dont sound fair since the cards are defective.. it's not my fault and there isint another card there I can exchange it with. Finally a higher up allowed me to return for full refund and no restocking fee.

Ending up buying 2 classifieds at microcenter.

Someone may be happy with 2130 if you sell it on the open market ? 

It could help you recover most of your cost - if you wanted to try the silicon lottery & buy another one

dwexpress
Well since they are limited to 2 can't do that from the store. Maybe from ebay in the future but kind of weary now.

Yeah no doubt..

So it's not limited to 2130 it's just that what it default boosts to right?

Forget it.. re read the thread.

Have you tried taking readings from the GPU die for voltage? What the idle and load voltages when you lock them at say 1.050v and loadline 0 <- no droop.

Xero717
I decided to return my card rather than ditch it off on eBay.  If the person who received it was upset with the low overclock it could be a major hassle and cost ultimately more than the restock.  I feel kinda bad for the person who'll buy it as b-stock to be honest...
 
If I learned anything from this, I'll stick to buying my GPUs from a retailer, unless I really feel lucky when the next KPE comes out.
 
Just for reference, my card boosted to 2050 stock.

What did it Overclock at?

bcavnaugh
 
What did it Overclock at?

I managed to get through Timespy once at 2145 with Classified Tool settings, but other than that 2130. Stability in games was 2115.  2130 would last for a while, but then it would eventually have a soft crash.  If it hit 2160 during anything it was insta crash.  It was really depressing having all that power and being so limited by the silicon.
 
Another thing I noticed was even at 2115 performance degradation seemed pretty evident over time, like the card was simply being kept up by the over-engineered PCB.  One example I can think of was how the card was running stable at 2130 in AB but there was definitely micro stutter that was not apparent at 2115.
 
I did fairly thorough testing too, Classified Tool, clean OS Installs, DDU, PX1 clean outs everything I could think of.

bcavnaugh
With my Card only Boosting to 2040MHz then should I also return my Card?

Doesn't yours overclock to 2175 in benches?  I just gave my boost as a point of reference, I'm not sure if anyone here knows if it will always correlate with a certain max overclock.

bcavnaugh
 
Yes, Mostly 2160 MHz. but you got me thinking.

 
I think you received one of the better binned cards.  If mine held clocks higher than my FTW3, I wouldn't have returned it.

LL 10 is the Default.

bcavnaugh
LL 10 is the Default.

Wish I had my notes in front of me to quote the beautiful low voltages seen using that at first.

Be nice is a few members would quote them to compare cause at first and really still I feel somethings up as it's real off.

Also would love to know what the ftw3 is running on idle and load cause I'm guessing they run hot on voltage as to why it clocked so well.. cause so far with the kingpin voltage is king for me.

AHowes

Sounds like super low voltage. Which was the first thing I noticed from mine.. also a bench would get real flaky with real low voltage.

What settings did you try in the CT?

Did you ever use a dmm to probe the actual GPU voltage? Done that for stock settings?

Loadline 0 or 1 would pretty much get the idle voltage to what you set in the CT tool but it will drop on load. Hopefully you didnt try like LL 10.

I've found too low of a voltage can seriously kill performance. Close to 1000 points I've observed.

 
1) No
 
2) I tried several different LLC settings, and voltage as high as 1.15 in CT.  At that point it was just adding a bunch of heat...  My card did not scale well with voltage at all, but I also wasn't running LN2.
 

Sad thread. My card auto boosts to 2050 and I thought that was closer to the bottom of the bin, as I am pretty sure some peoples boost at 2055 and 2070.

Xero717

AHowes
Anorher member attempted to return the card due to low boost clock over his other card and evga refused.

So good luck!

You have 15 days to submit an RMA request and have to be approved to get a return. They will also try to charge you 15% restocking fee and return shipping.

No idea what the 15 day return window is for when you cant just return the card unless its defective..

They let me return it, I just have to eat the restocking fee, RMA was approved.  I have a feeling he may have tried after the 14 days from receiving it, which they would deny it then.

Yes mine was out of the 14 day for a return/refund but with mine it wasn't just the low boost which i could have lived with,  mine it was the issue of the boost clock changing all the time. In SLI with one card maintaining its boost clock all the time and not changing and the other card always changing the boost clock from 2010 to 1975 to 2000 for some reason it was just impossible to stay stable. I called EVGA and after describing better what was going on they as well agreed to do a replacement RMA for me which is what i wanted originally not a return/refund.

dwexpress
 
Yes mine was out of the 14 day for a return/refund but with mine it wasn't just the low boost which i could have lived with,  mine it was the issue of the boost clock changing all the time. In SLI with one card maintaining its boost clock all the time and not changing and the other card always changing the boost clock from 2010 to 1975 to 2000 for some reason it was just impossible to stay stable. I called EVGA and after describing better what was going on they as well agreed to do a replacement RMA for me which is what i wanted originally not a return/refund.

 
If you reverse the GPU order / place the bottom Card in the Top PCIe Slot does it still change Boost Clock "all the time" ?
 
Does it also do this when it is the Only GPU in your MB ?

I would Check/ change the TIM the GPU