arestavo

phroze

lobstar
Next up we get super pissed off that AMD puts the same chiplets in the entire product line lol.

You aren't understanding. Let's take the example you just gave. My 5900x has a defect that keeps it from being a 5950x which makes it lower binned chiplets. I paid much less for my 5900x because of this. The same hold true with GPU chips.

Not all the time. Just look at all the AMD GPUs that can successfully be flashed to the next higher tier.
 
Sometimes the the chips are renamed due to the numbers available with a more mature chip production.

zig11727

arestavo

phroze

lobstar
Next up we get super pissed off that AMD puts the same chiplets in the entire product line lol.

You aren't understanding. Let's take the example you just gave. My 5900x has a defect that keeps it from being a 5950x which makes it lower binned chiplets. I paid much less for my 5900x because of this. The same hold true with GPU chips.

Not all the time. Just look at all the AMD GPUs that can successfully be flashed to the next higher tier.
 
Sometimes the the chips are renamed due to the numbers available with a more mature chip production.

When he RMA's his 5900x he doesn't get back 5850x and he is told it the same because it's not.

raiden2a

phroze
Well I made a new voltage curve that brings it down a bit, brought the core to 125, mem to 500 and I actually got the best score I have gotten in PR 14443 on the first go. Maybe I was jumping to conclusions about this chip after all. I'll keep playing around with it and see what I can do

I feel ya. I never can get above 460W but i am breaking 15.5k every run (with BAR).   190/1000 have been my best offsets so far.  This new RMA card is legit imo.  

raiden2a

phroze
Well I made a new voltage curve that brings it down a bit, brought the core to 125, mem to 500 and I actually got the best score I have gotten in PR 14443 on the first go. Maybe I was jumping to conclusions about this chip after all. I'll keep playing around with it and see what I can do

I feel ya. I never can get above 460W but i am breaking 15.5k every run (with BAR).   190/1000 have been my best offsets so far.  This new RMA card is legit imo.  

Bepzinky
Why can all other manufacturers release cards without major flaws
....
You can't make a 3x8Pin card that is still overloading the PCI-E slot. In fact you shouldn't even need any power from the PCI-E slot in the first place.
 
Honestly, so far the only EVGA card I had that ran well was the Kingpin 2080Ti. All others had severe issues - 980Ti SC known for VRM's burning out, 1070/1080 ACX thermalpad-gate and the MB Z390 Dark dropping memory slots, X299 memory VRM exploded on boot with no OC.

Bepzinky
I understand why people are so mad about the 250 chip, I really do and I'm in the same boat myself. You know, if you have bought a cheap Gigabyte 3090 with falling apart PCIE power pins and crappy cooler - OK, it's a lower end card, the pins can be replaced as a whole (GB has an extension for power connectors) and you get what you've paid for.
But here we have one of the beefiest, most expensive variants and obviously the card has some kind of a design flaw because of the PCI-E power draw and not being able to use the available power limit. If this has been a SW/FW issue, it would've been long fixed by now.
 
It's either the VRM controller, PCB trace design (or both) which in the future may cause even bigger problems like the controller or the card itself breaking down - I mean who knows, maybe they will all go 'pop' in 6 months because of this? Maybe after a year?
It damages the trust in brand as a whole.
 
Why can all other manufacturers release cards without major flaws that are cheaper and work just fine and now it really feels like it's almost always EVGA that try so hard to make a TOTL product and fail, except for the KP's.
Guys, truly - it's unthinkable you made this design and no one from the team has noticed that there is something wrong with it, it's obvious. GPU-Z is the basic stuff. You can't make a 3x8Pin card that is still overloading the PCI-E slot. In fact you shouldn't even need any power from the PCI-E slot in the first place.
 
Honestly, so far the only EVGA card I had that ran well was the Kingpin 2080Ti. All others had severe issues - 980Ti SC known for VRM's burning out, 1070/1080 ACX thermalpad-gate and the MB Z390 Dark dropping memory slots, X299 memory VRM exploded on boot with no OC.
I feel like having stockholm syndrome for still getting EVGA products, somehow I still like the brand, it gives me the DFI Lanparty vibe from years ago. Still, I bought the FTW3 Ultra simply because I had no other choice in the current GPU shortage...
 

god503
Man you guys are nuts. Before u all were freaking out about pci wattage draw now I come back to read about chip gate on your replacement cards..... hahhaahahah

I'm still rocking my original red lip beauty using the 1k bios on optimus block. And yes she's sucks up a mighty 650 watts and spikes 100 watts on the slot!!! And guess what, nothing has happened other than maxed out graphic gaming!!! And all the while I have been saying and will repeat it once a gain.... ITS A HEAT PROBLEM!!!!! the pads and paste jod was crap. At the very least replace them with fuji and repaste and stop wasting your time on RMA's.

EVGA THE 3090 UTRA ROCKS JUST DONT CHEAP OUT ON THE PADS NEXT TIME.... ;)

phroze
 
I don't think Mr. Leathercoat would speak with us peons.

andressergio

r1oNN
Yeah, we need xc3 bios with rebar :)

I agree!!!