EVGA_JacobF
I updated it to clarify. Yes if card received and preparing to ship then should be shipping today.
 

EVGA_JacobF
For those in US/CA with cards already received (prepairing to ship), the replacements will start shipping today.
 
For those in other regions, we are still working on this. If you emailed 3090oc@evga.com you are already in queue.

lobstar
If you are concerned with your card's ability to draw the correct wattage and not power limit itself contact the email address and ask them what process you can follow to verify your card is functioning properly. It's a pretty dramatic discrepancy in the data between a working and card and a dud so it should be pretty obvious.

Raudkast

BaDBoY_uK
I have a third card and it's a dud too. It's awful. Power doesn't go above 400W. Card limits itself hard. Utter crap. The first two cards died. Third one has been neutered heavily.  
 
Can someone explain to me why I paid $2000 for this card? As mentioned it's the third one. First two died. This card is pretty awful at clocking and power draw
 
Would the XC3 BIOS help?
 
 

PCIe power is too high, like everyone else, too me a little help XC3 bios, but not much...PR 14499, the big problem is that gpu-z no longer shows everything.

saygin123

EVGA_JacobF
 

Hey jacob 
 
are you guys planing to open cross ship rma option for this replacement program? also if i go thru(without emailing ) regular rma will i receive fixed cards? 

 

EVGA_JacobF
 
All questions should be routed to 3090oc@evga.com, per previous post though the new cards start shipping today, as mentioned they were planning on start shipping this week in US/CA, and will.

saygin123
 
where can i find the xc3 bios? also does it void the warranty? 

willm1224
500w bios RMA card through 3090OC@evga.com has shipped! They did it, I doubted them but they pulled it off and shipped em out this week.

Edit: I will post results upon arrival

willm1224

andressergio

willm1224
500w bios RMA card through 3090OC@evga.com has shipped! They did it, I doubted them but they pulled it off and shipped em out this week.

Edit: I will post results upon arrival

Great to read this, good luck bro and post your results!!!

Card received...
Good news bad news scenario. First I’ll start by saying they have officially fixed the high pcie power draw. Multiple benchmarks now the card never went past 65 W. THIS is VERY good for all of us concerned about shorting out our systems. Now for the bad stuff: they did NOT fix power balancing. Not completely. First 2 8 pins maxed barely over 150 (I’m cool with that, those cables can take 300w) but the last 8 pin never went over 107 W. The card stayed around 460 w. Silicon is pretty good. had some issues with it but it was driver mishap that DDU solved. 

Edit: it’s going back bc power balancing is not fixed and it only draws 460-470 max actually pulls on average less power than the card I sent in. Overclocking potential is what it is.

Edit: Also this card has a unique bios version not found on techpowerup

willm1224

Oh no, Jacob is ignoring me now and has plenty of times, the first time I got him to acknowledge an issue verbally about this bios was after I spoke to Stephen from gamers nexus via email, and he forwarded me to Jacob asking him to address my concerns about the bios. This was after mad tweets mad posts etc...He’s currently ignoring me, earlier this week it was “still planning on shipping those out this week!” Now that’s it’s Friday and they haven’t, it’s radio silence. The info I have is from calling in; I haven’t been paying attention what’s going on with people getting ignored?
To whomever flagged this post: Do you want screenshot evidence of me posting/tweeting, or screenshots of the emails back in November? How about screenshots from today? There’s no cursing, why’s the post approval pending?

Pugwoof

Zgapzy

elbramso

Zgapzy
Got my RMA approved today, curious to see how the new one goes as this card puleed 14600 with xc3 on air. XOC 420w max.

Well there is a good chance that your RMA card won't perform better but can draw 500w ;)

Can't be anyworse than the 13900 on XOC. xc3 was good but who knows where the power is actually coming from. 
I just want a card that's up to spec. 

I'm in somewhat the same boat as you and wondering if I should RMA or not - I do not want to be w/o my card for weeks or a month+...but thinking it's worth it long term. Very interested to see how your RMA turns out. 

I've been following this thread for a while and just recently tried the XC3 Bios.
- Card on air with open window in cold climate...spent a couple days trying to max out PR score and NEVER got to even 13,800 on the XOC Bios (13,746 was my best with fans cranked to 100).
- Tried the XC3 Bios and I've already been able to get a 14,350+...and that is after just a couple runs the other day before I had to leave for a trip. I'm confident I can get to 14,500+ if I get a cold enough morning with some additional OC dialing in. 

I use the normal OC Bios Jacob posted with this thread for Daily use; XC3 just for benchmarking as I don't like not being able to read accurate Sensor data...plus some funky fan bugs. 

With the XOC 500Watt I was hardly ever getting over 1.00 volts...was always bouncing around the high 800s - 900s per X1 and GPU-Z. I was able to get a bit more out of it using AB and a custom volt curve. However, seeing XC3 instantly explode my PR score by 600 points w/o even trying shows that I'm leaving a ton of performance on the table with my current card. I get that a 13,700 vs a 14,500 is what maybe ~5fps or so in games...but that's what we spent the extra cash on the FTW3 Ultra for (that extra little bit of performance over a lower tier 3090).