Let's hope 🤞. I'm not trying to receive another card that's going to break in a week. I paid 2k cdn for this thing

Hoping my RMAed one will be better than my new one that lived 24 hours ☹️

  My sympathies for all of us who've already received their 3080 card and are having issues; I'm waiting in the queue still myself.  Sucks, but Experience tells us 1st new gen Silicon ( 'Specially if it involves die shrinkage Ver 1 or Factory OC Ver 1! ) is always a bit of a crap shoot between the binned-chips-for-class that barely made the cut lottery, and/or the idea that the product performance using Factory pure-clean-perfect-lab grade-power on their bench is usually WAAAY more stable/better than when we plug in the real world.  IDK if I'd risk the higher power BIOS without at least waiting until the stock situation gets a lot better, and even then I'd crank it up in VERY small increments starting off.  Kinda sucks that right now there isn't even a Powerlink available for these, and I'd DEF invest in that too when it comes out before running the hotter BIOS ( see above ).  Good luck to all of us here who dare to live and experiment on the bleeding edge of Tech, and let's help one another and post all the hard-won knowledge and tips for each other, yes?!

Another 3090 XC3 Ultra with same issue here (received Saturday, lasted 5hrs, still waiting for an answer from evga support / seems impossible to reach them on the phone in EU) ... seems this rma might take a while :(
Should I open an RMA regardless of the ticket not being picked up already ? 

No one I have seen has mentioned which LED is lighting up.  Since there are 4, it might mean something different for each occurrence.
 
I think I am going to set the RGB bar up so I can see if mine goes over 75° C for the GPU, default is 83° C.  
 
I am trying to play games not really that taxing, like Dying Light so hopefully, my 4 day old card with one Ultra Wide Monitor, will not fail..
 
I wonder if EVGA will explain what has been going on with this.

Saltgrass
 
I wonder if EVGA will explain what has been going on with this.

 Someone from EVGA should definitely let people know where this is cumming from.

I hope this isn't happening to me as well... I just had my pc reboot multiple times and now my card idles @ 40C when it never went passed 33C.  I will keep an eye on it and hope for the best.
 
-Update
 
Apparently the driver was faulty and X1 wasn't working properly.  I re-installed both the driver and X1 and my idles went back down to 29-30c

IanJay
That being said. I did try just about everything I could think of myself to help determine the issue.

Checked psu cables
Tried card in different computers and got the same result
Tried my old card and confirmed it was working

I even bought a brand new 1000 watt platinum psu and got the same results.

I have a feeling, once a single red light comes on, it is not user repairable but maybe someone will find a way.  My red lights have only come on when the card was originally installed and when I did the firmware update where all four lights came on and stayed on during the update.

Saltgrass
No one I have seen has mentioned which LED is lighting up.  Since there are 4, it might mean something different for each occurrence.
 
I think I am going to set the RGB bar up so I can see if mine goes over 75° C for the GPU, default is 83° C.  
 
I am trying to play games not really that taxing, like Dying Light so hopefully, my 4 day old card with one Ultra Wide Monitor, will not fail..
 
I wonder if EVGA will explain what has been going on with this.

 
mine not being an FTW it doesn't seem to have that many leds ... the two "leds" (evga glowing logo) turn red on mine instead of the usual multicolor glowing and it's actually only the first 2 fans that turn to 100% whilst the 3rd fan is off.
 

no led there on the xc3 Ultra as far as i can tell ... or maybe none is lit at all in my case ? can't remind any showing up while it worked either tho

manatane
mine not being an FTW it doesn't seem to have that many leds ... the two "leds" (evga glowing logo) turn red on mine instead of the usual multicolor glowing and it's actually only the first 2 fans that turn to 100% whilst the 3rd fan is off.
 

I don't know about the XC3 but if you look in Precision X1, there is a page for LEDs or lighting scenarios.  The setting may be for that indicator to show temperatures as opposed to RGB lighting..  If it is, then red might mean it is hot..

Saltgrass

manatane
mine not being an FTW it doesn't seem to have that many leds ... the two "leds" (evga glowing logo) turn red on mine instead of the usual multicolor glowing and it's actually only the first 2 fans that turn to 100% whilst the 3rd fan is off.
 

I don't know about the XC3 but if you look in Precision X1, there is a page for LEDs or lighting scenarios.  The setting may be for that indicator to show temperatures as opposed to RGB lighting..  If it is, then red might mean it is hot..

that's on startup, before anything gets to happen on the card, so it's pretty dead cold at this point, and it's temperature never went past 70°C before it died 

kimahn
man you scare me. i was playing Wow (ok it's old and optimised as s. but still), tried everything on (including rtx), after a few hours of play the screen turned black and the game locked itself at 60 fps instead of 250ish i'm not sure rma is as fast in france :'(

based in France too and I just started my RMA process (had to phone on the US customer support line since the EU ones have been unresponsive all day), so I'll report on the time it takes. The representative I've had told me that they usually keep some cards aside especially for RMA's and that even in EU it shouldn't be too long (cards being sent back to/from germany makes it pretty close for us in france actually ;) ) 

IanJay
I have the 3090 XC3 ULTRA and the leds are there.. Theyre very small btw. You're probably not having the same issue

looking more closely during boot sequence, there are indeed 3 red lights that just blink shortly when powering up ... so seems my issue is indeed slightly different then OP's and that there is indeed some error codes there, would be interesting to have them documented (tho support reps didn't really seem to care about any of this, black screen/fans at 100%/tested working then not working anymore (in multiple rigs) seems enough of a clue for them to rma anyway, makes for a solid support experience there)

richardwu190
I'm waiting for the FTW3 Ultra on the Step-Up program, and got a 3080 FE recently I got inpatient.   I undervolted the 3080 FE on the second day I got it as the temperature was getting around 79 to 82 C, and kept it running around 1860 MHz @ 0.836V.   So far my card is still running well without any issues.   Seeing all those problems with FTW3 ultra, I wonder if the chips in there are pushed too far with the OC causing issues (knowing that the Samsung 8nm chips are already pushed to its max with little OC headroom, unless a crazy high amount of voltage is delivered to the card).   I am also debating if I should keep the FE instead once I get my FTW3 ultra.   

From last working 3dmark bench report before my card died : 
 
Clock frequency 1 875 MHz (1 395 MHz)
Average clock frequency 1 809 MHz
Memory clock frequency 1 219 MHz (1 219 MHz)
 
Hardly see how "heavy overclock" could be put to blame here ... seems more like faulty batches then anything else to me