FYI - 3090 FTW3 HydroCoppers come with the 500W XOC BIOS pre-installed as the “OC” BIOS. Mine did not have any issues hitting 500W and doesn’t exhibit any power balancing issues.

DNAJAY
Yeah makes sense. But since I don’t have an aluminum loop, I should be fine then? It’s EK nickel, which I assume is brass with nickel platting.

Yes, you should be fine.

oldmanian

exlink
FYI - 3090 FTW3 HydroCoppers come with the 500W XOC BIOS pre-installed as the “OC” BIOS. Mine did not have any issues hitting 500W and doesn’t exhibit any power balancing issues.

How are your gpu and coolant temps under prolonged/sustained load?

I’ll check tonight. I haven’t done extensive testing yet, only checked my GPU’s power limit before calling it a night.

But from what I saw after running Furmark for 15 minutes my GPU averaging 500W was about 66°C and coolant temp was around 37°C if I recall correctly. This is with 2x360 rads.

I cancelled my 3090 FTW3 auto-notify October last year trying to get into the auto-notify for the 3090 FTW3 HC, but I never seen the auto-notify button pop up. Anyone know if this was ever released and is it even possible to get into the queue?

Thanks, that's good info. I'll keep my eyes out.

DNAJAY
Any updates on the HCs? It’s been oddly quiet lately. LOL.

All I can tell you is that you'll need to give this more time...

So...glad the ftw3 hydrocoppers are finally starting to see some activity. 
 
How about that kingpin hydrocopper? Is that whole product pretty much dead or what? Did Evga partner with someone making water blocks out of their garage?

Yesterday (29/3) Jacob answer a tweet that the HC copper is now due to mid april and mention that they have no date for the Kingpins edition 

Any updates on when the Queue will reopen for HCs?

DNAJAY
Any updates on when the Queue will reopen for HCs?

It opened up this morning, as of 4:45pm CDT its still available to be auto-notified.  Checking every morning finally paid off....... Now, we shall see how long until I get notified that it's available.   
 

Which queue or was it all of them?

 
I thought the KP HC would be there by now...
 

I swear the people whining about their 30 series card not showing up until after the 40 series is out are making multiple accounts to complain.  Nearly all of them have 5-50 posts with most being complaints. 
 
Here are the facts:
 
More than likely the chip shortage will delay the 40 series GPUs.  If not, the changeover will occur and at the same very slow production rate, then the same people who were on the ball to get a 30 series within the first few months will be the first to get a 40 series too. 
 
Miners are sucking up as many cards as possible because they believe they can make the cards pay for themselves in the long run.  
 
Then for those that complain that Newegg, Amazon etc, for their ability to sell EVGA cards, you buy 1-2 cards a year from EVGA directly, at nearly full price (see my associates link---> https://www.evga.com/associates/default.aspx?associatecode=3Y0CJBO1VSNW1C3 for a discount) but you can't forget that 90-95% of their products are sold by a handful of "customers", Amazon, Newegg, Micro Center etc.  It would be beyond foolish for EVGA to tell their primary customers to take a piss while they sell at full MSRP on EVGA.com, they are essentially cutting off their own legs if they cut off sales to retailers. Most consumers don't know to go directly to EVGA.com and most just view all brands as the same.  I was VERY shocked that EVGA was willing to add the notify system, that's a definite shot across the bow of the major retailers that their business comes in a distance second place to their direct to consumer sales on EVGA.com.
 
Plus, I think GM and their thousand(s) odd employees on furlough after their factories were shut down due to chip shortages have something more to lament than not being able to spend money on computer parts.
 
You can complain as much as you want, but EVGA can't sell what it doesn't have.  The supply is limited and demand is massive.  Just deal with it.  BONUS - super high sales means NVIDIA and AMD can invest more money into RD for the next gen cards.  Especially since they are so competitive now. So if you wait means you grab a 40 series card before a 30...well hot damn you're in luck!

 
Says the guy with a 12 hour old account, 5 posts, 2 of which are about how they don't have a card yet.  *quote removed on purpose
 
-mic drop-

Lol 12 hour account. You are poor at reading and quite petty like a child. I created this for the queues last year and the only reason I am bothering to comment is I just discovered with 100 posts you can get into the elite queues. Apologies if 2 posts on relevant threads about how I should have pulled the trigger on the 3090 when my number came up offends you. I wish you the best with your life seems like its pretty terrible and you need all the good vibes you can get.