All fans went to full send and locked my main PC up.  Rebooted and Bios Beeps on my Dark Hero VIII as well as the LED on the boards itself pointing to the GPU (VGA).  Far back LED above the last PCiE power cable is solid red. This banger dead?  

5950X
Dark Hero VIII
3090 FTW 3 Ultra (latest Precision bios as of a month or so ago)
ROG Swift 1000w PSU
MSI 360R in push pull config
16 x 2 Trident mem
2 x 2tb nVME
Aorus FI27Q-X, GL850, PG259QN, Omen X25F, VG259QM
Toppings A50s
Toppings D50S
Sennheiser HD800s, Beyerdynamics T1 V2, Hifiman Sundara, Sennheiser HD560s depending on Mood.
Endgame Xm1, Superlight Pro, Orochi V2, Viper 8k depending on mood
Steelseries APex TKL Pro (Gmmk Pro on order).
 
That's not even close to everything but for the sake of my dead GPU its pretty close.  Jokes aside its dead. I threw it in my streaming PC and sadly I get the solid red light.  I threw another GPU into my main rig and it spun right up.
 
How long do RMA's typically take? 

I did a cross ship and took 4 days but I had to put down 1800 in collateral until they get my 3090 back

Will have my new 3090 Friday, water block killed it

oVerRateD

Jynxed16
I did a cross ship and took 4 days but I had to put down 1800 in collateral until they get my 3090 back

Will have my new 3090 Friday, water block killed it

How did the water block do it?

Bad installation ? :)

Andrew7xX
Quite a few reports of blocks killing 3090s, enough to make me want to leave mine air cooled until the hydro copper is available

These cards aren't designed for mining (max. load 24hours per day) but it isnt problem for miners. They bought card with warranty and manufacturer replace it with working one when die. Its BIG problem.

Jynxed16

Andrew7xX
Quite a few reports of blocks killing 3090s, enough to make me want to leave mine air cooled until the hydro copper is available

Exactly. Huge issues going on with this right now. I am in line for a EKWB Asus card or Hydro Copper as well. I have been doing this for 10 years and it's my job. No bad installation. It's a real issue.

Graphic card have too much temperature sensitive components (generating heat) vrms, power management ics, coils, capacitors, rams, GPU. Probably cooling system is bad designed (no pads > overheating components)
 
I think that very good idea to stop miners is implement in nvidia driver miner detector and void warranty for card if detected.

explorer232

Jynxed16

Andrew7xX
Quite a few reports of blocks killing 3090s, enough to make me want to leave mine air cooled until the hydro copper is available

Exactly. Huge issues going on with this right now. I am in line for a EKWB Asus card or Hydro Copper as well. I have been doing this for 10 years and it's my job. No bad installation. It's a real issue.

Graphic card have too much temperature sensitive components (generating heat) vrms, power management ics, coils, capacitors, rams, GPU. Probably cooling system is bad designed (no pads > overheating components)
 
I think that very good idea to stop miners is implement in nvidia driver miner detector and void warranty for card if detected.

Naw you are off base. Why shouldn't we mine when not gaming? It is money for the taking. I waterblocked my card the day I got it. It stays nice and cool while hashing. 74c max VRAM junction temps. Now to the OP, try to RMA via the 3090oc@evga.com email address so you can get a card with the power issues fixed.

explorer232

phroze

explorer232

Jynxed16

Andrew7xX
Quite a few reports of blocks killing 3090s, enough to make me want to leave mine air cooled until the hydro copper is available

Exactly. Huge issues going on with this right now. I am in line for a EKWB Asus card or Hydro Copper as well. I have been doing this for 10 years and it's my job. No bad installation. It's a real issue.

Graphic card have too much temperature sensitive components (generating heat) vrms, power management ics, coils, capacitors, rams, GPU. Probably cooling system is bad designed (no pads > overheating components)
 
I think that very good idea to stop miners is implement in nvidia driver miner detector and void warranty for card if detected.

Naw you are off base. Why shouldn't we mine when not gaming? It is money for the taking. I waterblocked my card the day I got it. It stays nice and cool while hashing. 74c max VRAM junction temps. Now to the OP, try to RMA via the email address so you can get a card with the power issues fixed.

Ok, so for understandig.
This is gaming class of graphic cards. So lifetime for electrolitic capacitors is about 2000 hours at 105°C. If you have termal pads on capacitors probably temerature is lower so lifetime is > 2000 hour. But for worse scenario 2000/24 = ~ 83 Days
Then there is no temperature probe on mosfets , vrm controllers sometimes have it but generally you can see only temp on GPU and it is insufficient.
 
For mining you need card with industrial standards (military class of components with higher lifetime) for good card lifetime. But if manufacturer is tolering that each miner card goes to RMA idealy only one time in warranty period his problem.
 

While gaming the caps get hotter than they do while mining because of the reduced power offset that we use while mining. Given your math, if you were to game on your card for 4 hours per day, it would be dead in less than 6 months. Remember the only caps that are electrolytic on these boards are filtering caps. They are likely in the mid 30c temp range. 

explorer232

phroze

explorer232

phroze

explorer232

Jynxed16

Andrew7xX
Quite a few reports of blocks killing 3090s, enough to make me want to leave mine air cooled until the hydro copper is available

Exactly. Huge issues going on with this right now. I am in line for a EKWB Asus card or Hydro Copper as well. I have been doing this for 10 years and it's my job. No bad installation. It's a real issue.

Graphic card have too much temperature sensitive components (generating heat) vrms, power management ics, coils, capacitors, rams, GPU. Probably cooling system is bad designed (no pads > overheating components)
 
I think that very good idea to stop miners is implement in nvidia driver miner detector and void warranty for card if detected.

Naw you are off base. Why shouldn't we mine when not gaming? It is money for the taking. I waterblocked my card the day I got it. It stays nice and cool while hashing. 74c max VRAM junction temps. Now to the OP, try to RMA via the email address so you can get a card with the power issues fixed.

Ok, so for understandig.
This is gaming class of graphic cards. So lifetime for electrolitic capacitors is about 2000 hours at 105°C. If you have termal pads on capacitors probably temerature is lower so lifetime is > 2000 hour. But for worse scenario 2000/24 = ~ 83 Days
Then there is no temperature probe on mosfets , vrm controllers sometimes have it but generally you can see only temp on GPU and it is insufficient.
 
For mining you need card with industrial standards (military class of components with higher lifetime) for good card lifetime. But if manufacturer is tolering that each miner card goes to RMA idealy only one time in warranty period his problem.
 

While gaming the caps get hotter than they do while mining because of the reduced power offset that we use while mining. Given your math, if you were to game on your card for 4 hours per day, it would be dead in less than 6 months. Remember the only caps that are electrolytic on these boards are filtering caps. They are likely in the mid 30c temp range. 

Yes, function of the electrolitic capacitor on the board is dc voltage filtering because its part of the DC-DC converters :)  These capacitors have low ESR. Over time ESR rises.
Then there are ceramic capacitors for noise filtering.
 
When you will check pcb with thermal camera you can see that "main temperature generators" are GPU and VRMs due to high current.  VRM ICs have termal pad soldered to PCB ground so if VRM is hot then is hot complete PCB and each component on the PCB!
 
 

But mining is a much smaller load on the card than gaming. So go make some money and stop being afraid!

lucasfrance
NEVER EVER WILL I BUY EVGA AGAIN!!! THIS COMPANY IS A COMPLETE MESS!!!
- Not only they deliver HIGH END (and VERY EXPENSIVE) 3090 FTW3 ULTRA boards out of power consumption standard specs due to a very poor and low cost HW design moreover not properly tested...
but !
- Their European Consumer support is a COMPLETE MESS !!! They are even not able to handle the RMA properly and my parcel is sucked at the German entry customs for many days waiting for EVGA Europe paperwork acceptance !!!!
NEVER EVER WILL I BUY EVGA AGAIN!!! 

Yikes! That is understandable. I heard they are very expensive over there too so that is another reason I would choose a different brand in Europe. In the USA, they have kind of become the budget friendly brand during the tariff debacle.