Lord Winchester

Onclepit
What is that nonsense. Bought a FTW3 Ultra 3090 yesterday. Thought that rev for the pciedraw is long implemented, only to see spikes to 80 Watts on PCIe having it built in now...How can you still deliver faulty hardware with a clear conscience. That issue has been up since Oktober...It‘s plain infuriating and a huge letdown imo. not going to leave the card in if its likely to kill itself in a few weeks anyway.

 
For the US the hardware revision was announced 1 or two weeks ago, Europe started this week.
 
It's totally up to you, if you want to keep the card like that🤷🏼‍♂️

Arscon
 

Can you tell me how much you must wait for the new replacement card? I from eu and i dont know how many days i must wait for new card after i send my card to rma

zig11727

willm1224
PSA: do not open open precision x1 v 1.1.8 if you are on a FTW3 board (new PCB revision) that is mounted on a hybrid kit w/o hybrid bios (no such working bios update to get hybrid bios running exists right now). It will bork your shroud fan permanently. Forcing an RMA

I’m serious don’t do it, wait for a hybrid bios before you run x1 v 1.18 and flashes an incorrect firmware that there’s no way to roll back and no way to load the hybrid bios and force it load a correct firmware. rBAR ain’t worth it. Wait for a hybrid bios to open that program. I just got this card 10 days ago it’s in an RMA over this.

I have the new PCB revision with hybrid kit installed and I just flashed the bios with x1 V 1.18 and everything is fine except the LED lighting and the pump runs at 100%. The flashed bios is 94.02.42.C0.02 and resizeable bar is enabled verify via GPU Z, System Information and X1 V 1.18.

JaxMacFL
3090 FTW3 ULTRA with hybrid kit here and updated to resizable bar vbios. PX1 v1.1.8 reads it as RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA HYBRID and bios 94.02.42.C0.11, Resizable BAR: Enabled, as does GPU-Z and NVIDIA Control Panel.

JaxMacFL
Not familiar with px1 but seems fans 1, 2 and 3 lows are 44, 40 and 0. All three go to 100%.  Seem to take what ever speed I apply.  I use msi ab myself.  Will probably uninstall px1 now, just more comfortable with ab.

MiztahSparklez
I just received one of the replacement cards in the program.  Door to door was about 1 week, ground shipping.  Very reasonable.  Thanks to the EVGA team for a fast turnaround.
 
The good: The card draws 500w+!  PCIE slot power is way low now, 65-70w.  Performance is better, I can hold 2090-2100.  I did flash the HYBRID XOC bios on this card (Did not put the Re-BAR bios yet).  With a modest overclock I was actually able to hit a higher score on Time spy (with the Hybrid XOC bios (hybrid cooler) than on the factory OC bios on air.
 
The bad: The power balance issue is still there.  It looks like my Power #3 connector is low, like others have reported.  The other two pins are pulling 150w+, while this one is more like 100w. 
 
Time Spy:
Stock score was 17960 ~ 420w
NEW OC BIOS (Factory installed) was 18022 ~ 420w
NEW OC BIOS (Factory installed) @ +100GPU +200MEM was 18560 ~475w+ (air cooled)
 
XOC NORMAL HYBRID BIOS (from here) +145GPU +200 MEM was 19492 ~506w!!! (I do have the Hybrid kit installed here)
 
 
Overall feedback:  If you have a working card that can hit 420-450w, it might not be really worth the change just for performance if it is your only video card or if shipping is cost prohibitive.  You will not be gaining too much more in clock speed, especially if you start hitting the thermal limits of the card.  If you are worried about your PCIe slot (I would say 75-80w is an acceptable margin, 85+ RMA), then RMA away using the email address provided.  That being said, I think if the card came like this from the factory, I don't think anyone would have noticed or complained of any issues.
 
Note, I can get good performance with a LOWER power target.  I do not have to run it at 119%.  As I said before, you want less heat, so you want to run as little power as you can get away with without crashing.
 
 
 

MiztahSparklez
Just flashed the Hybrid 500w bios that Kevinc313 posted up on the previous page. 3988 is for the hybrid.
 
Bumped up clocks to 150mhz  (boost hit 2115), mem was 200 and power 119.  Still hit 505w, high Timespy score 19603.  I'm sure I can get more, but the results aren't looking bad for once! https://www.3dmark.com/spy/19400458
 
Please be aware, I did NOT use x1 to flash.  I simply ran the standalone executable for each step.
 
If you have a broken card after hybrid... use your other bios that's still working with the original firmware. flip the bios switch while the computer is running to the broken bios, flash via nvflash with your original firmware file (should be ftw3 ultra) then try updating via PX1 after rebooting.  Once you see everything is working again, then update via the exe files only and don't open PX1 ever again, until the updates are available for Hybrid.
 
 

MiztahSparklez
I just received one of the replacement cards in the program.  Door to door was about 1 week, ground shipping.  Very reasonable.  Thanks to the EVGA team for a fast turnaround.
 
The good: The card draws 500w+!  PCIE slot power is way low now, 65-70w.  Performance is better, I can hold 2090-2100.  I did flash the HYBRID XOC bios on this card (Did not put the Re-BAR bios yet).  With a modest overclock I was actually able to hit a higher score on Time spy (with the Hybrid XOC bios (hybrid cooler) than on the factory OC bios on air.
 
The bad: The power balance issue is still there.  It looks like my Power #3 connector is low, like others have reported.  The other two pins are pulling 150w+, while this one is more like 100w. 
 
Time Spy:
Stock score was 17960 ~ 420w
NEW OC BIOS (Factory installed) was 18022 ~ 420w
NEW OC BIOS (Factory installed) @ +100GPU +200MEM was 18560 ~475w+ (air cooled)
 
XOC NORMAL HYBRID BIOS (from here) +145GPU +200 MEM was 19492 ~506w!!! (I do have the Hybrid kit installed here)
 
 
Overall feedback:  If you have a working card that can hit 420-450w, it might not be really worth the change just for performance if it is your only video card or if shipping is cost prohibitive.  You will not be gaining too much more in clock speed, especially if you start hitting the thermal limits of the card.  If you are worried about your PCIe slot (I would say 75-80w is an acceptable margin, 85+ RMA), then RMA away using the email address provided.  That being said, I think if the card came like this from the factory, I don't think anyone would have noticed or complained of any issues.
 
Note, I can get good performance with a LOWER power target.  I do not have to run it at 119%.  As I said before, you want less heat, so you want to run as little power as you can get away with without crashing.
 
 
 

viper_overclocker
Today I installed the new EVGA Precision X1 ver. 1.1.8.0 and it suggested to update my BIOS. It updated to version 94.02.42.80.AD and with power slider set to 119% I got up to 410W while playing BF V. My PCI-E slot power hit 79.1W at some point and GPU 3 8 pin connector is still down by a few W compared to the other 2 connectors. Overall I'm still wondering if I should apply for RMA to the special program since my GPU can overclock to 2175 Mhz game stable and memory can do +1400 again game stable.