Well, it finally happened. I broke down and ordered a 1080 TI last Friday. Should be here today or tomorrow. I clicked on the slickdeals page where the card could be had for 699 after mail in rebate(I should have know it was too good to be true, but I did order it literally seconds after it poped up, which is how one gets good deals). Header said FTW3, did not see DT model until later in the day when I went back to check for more comments, and I quickly pulled up my newegg order.
 
I had been waiting on a good deal for an EVGA 1080 TI for a few weeks. I had missed the deal where the green ftw3 was 699+gift card because it disappeared in minutes/seconds. Anyway, I was in a rush to pull the trigger on this because of said previous deal, and didn't research(edit: I did research ftw3, but when I say I didn't research, I mean I didn't copy the exact model number and pull up the EVGA page for it because I assumed 1080tiFTW3 was 1080tiFTW3, I'd been looking at the 1080ti series from evga for months, in drool mode) the card or even know it was a DT or what DT was.
 
Here is how Newegg has it listed:
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 DT DirectX 12 11G-P4-6694-KR 11GB 352-Bit GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card. 
If you click on the picture gallery, you have to click the three dots for more pictures to see the box cover predominantly displays the DT across the front.
 
Upon reading reviews I found 2/4 reviewers had also purchased the DT mistakenly. Perhaps the newegg description can be updated. I was going off the slick deals user posted description, so I can't say for sure if it would have made a difference for me either way. Again on slickdeals the DT was listed in the body of the deal but not on the title iirc, at the time of my hurried deal searching.
 
Of course now I know DT stands for down tuned, or aka reverse binned chips. It's a shame, since I do enjoy overclocking, and I will still try to overclock this one.
 
Anyway, I immediately jumped back on newegg to return the card(it had been about to hours). The card was already in shipping. Apparently it is part of a Destiny 2 bundle(I already have destiny 2, lol) and there are NO RETURNS on the card from newegg. Wow, I really screwed the pooch on this one.
 
Anyway, I guess I'm gonna try to overclock the card and see what I get. I don't have a lot of options. I'm coming from a 980 TI Classified. If I'm stuck with it(and I would love to hear from an EVGA rep that would let me upgrade the card to the actual FTW3, my card will be unopened, and I'm actually willing to pay a crapload to upgrade at this point, I just want the real thing) then maybe I can give you my experiences in this thread once I install it. I may wait a while to put it in, just to see if an opportunity to get rid of it comes along that isn't me chancing to sell a 700 dollar card on ebay).
 
I wanted to know this. There is almost NO info about 1080 TI DT cards out there. I read somewhere that these have the stock bios? How do they run the third fan, if so? Should I expect 1 fan not to work, or should all 3 fans work on this thing? I learned a valuable lesson here, don't worry, lol.
 
edit: to be clear, I'm not blaming EVGA, but I did want to report this issue to the forums, just in case it is interesting or can be useful to anyone else.

AHowes
Sucks! That's the number 1 reason I don't buy gpu's at newegg!! Or really anywhere online. Always locally from microcenter so I can easily return the thing if needed.

Yeah, I messed this one up thoroughly.

AHowes
Should call evga.. they will answer basicly right away and ask them if the res anything that can be done.

I'd never grab a dt "down tuned" card to say a measily $50 bucks.

I will call them for sure once the card arrives and run the problem by them. I thought I would go ahead and make this thread. I really understand that I'm the idiot here, lol, but maybe they can help me out. It's not my fault I was born dumb!!! :)

zenfoldor
I read somewhere that these have the stock bios? How do they run the third fan, if so? Should I expect 1 fan not to work, or should all 3 fans work on this thing?

Stock vbios meaning... stock 1080 ti clocks. Not meaning stock reference vbios. Yes, all three fans will work.

DT just means that it didn’t like the full ftw3 bios. Many still get the same exact overclocks. If you are going to open the card, you should test it before assuming it is just a horrible card because it says DT.

the_Scarlet_one
DT just means that it didn’t like the full ftw3 bios. Many still get the same exact overclocks. If you are going to open the card, you should test it before assuming it is just a horrible card because it says DT.

+1.
I would open it and see how it performs (benchmarks, OC, stress test, etc..).
If it does good, I would keep it.

OP,
I bought an currently use the EVGA GTX 1080 DT card running +170 core, +500mhz mem. 2075mhz on water. Never had any issues with the card. Wife's card also hold the same overclock.

Smart.. gl!

If... and only if... the next gen cards are released in the next 80 days (or so), you may be eligible for step up. Keep your fingers crossed. Currently there is nothing to go up to, but there may be later on if Volta releases soon.