phroze

willm1224

arestavo

Bepzinky

sidm2K9
Getting a new 3090 FTW3 via step up today, have all the power issues been resolved? Need to decide between keeping my 3090 FE or this soon.How are the Tjunc temperatures on the latest batches? Thanks.

Nothing has been resolved, no official statement from EVGA. Sell the FTW3 and keep the FE.

The problem is not the BIOS but the PCB design. As an FTW3 owner (have an RMA on the way) I wish I could tell you the good news but there isn't many.

Looks like you missed a lot. Check post number 2 of this thread - I consolidated EVGA_Jacob's posts about their new RMA program for this issue.

You have a new revision card right? What’s your preferred bios for it? I have had excellent results hitting 500w using the original card’s XOC 500w bios. I haven’t felt the need to slap the kingpin bios on it yet, bc I hit 500w no issue.

So far the KP BIOS has been the best for me on the revision card. I am seeing over 520 watts in wow retail with just the power limit slider slid up to 20%. It might mess with fans though. I wouldn't know about that part I am under water.

phroze

willm1224
I’m on a hybrid kit, with rad fans on a commander pro, so I’m sure it’d be fine for just shroud fan control. My card can only OC to +90 (even though it boosts to 2085, holds 2055 under load). Would I have to under lock it by 30 MHz on the kingpin bios? (1890 = 1920 -30)

I didn't under clock mine at all. Did some overclocking via the curve in afterburner. .

Bepzinky
It has nothing to do with the BIOS, nothing...the card has load balancing problems by design.
Enough folks already reported getting cards from RMA with the same issue.
Zero response from EVGA on the case, no info on PCB revisions or anything that could fix the issue (or actually admitting the issue) should say enough.

Bepzinky
For the last time - It is not the freaking BIOS! It's a hardware issue hence I won't even unpack my RMA.
Truly, I'm gone, enough EVGA jokery for me.

Bepzinky
It has nothing to do with the BIOS, nothing...the card has load balancing problems by design.
Enough folks already reported getting cards from RMA with the same issue and some reported EVGA changed the vrm controller on the fly....why? when? which serial mumbers?
Zero response from EVGA on the case, no info on PCB revisions or anything that could fix the issue (or actually admitting the issue) should say enough.

willm1224

Bepzinky
It has nothing to do with the BIOS, nothing...the card has load balancing problems by design.
Enough folks already reported getting cards from RMA with the same issue.
Zero response from EVGA on the case, no info on PCB revisions or anything that could fix the issue (or actually admitting the issue) should say enough.

If you flash the original XOC 500w bios onto a new revision card I guarantee you, you can bypass the PCB design issue bc I pull 165-170 watts from the first 2 8 pins, and around 110w from the 3rd. 67 w pcie...add it up its 500 w.

I have two problems. I update my bios with evga precision x 1. I have a 3090 ultra hybird. My bios version is 94.02.42.c0.11.

It says, after updating bios:

-Csm support must be disabled before updating BIOS-

I have a second problem. This comes by default at values ​​44 and 40. The fan won't let me go below 30 percent speed.

badass1982
So I installed Precision X1 and it asked (forced me to as I couldn't use the program without updating the MCU/Firmware it had suggested) me to update the firmware so I did, everything worked great until I rebooted today, and now my PC will not detect my extremely expensive paper weight. No sign of it in GPU-Z , Device Manager etc. If I try to install the drivers I get a no compatible devices found error and if i try to update (or roll back the firmware) i get a similar error saying cannot find any compatible devices. I literaly just stepped up to this card and its lasted me all of a couple of months.
 
I will be going ASUS next time I am so done with EVGA!
 
I have tried both the VGA bios'es using the switch (despite having only flashed the OC bios). Of course EVGA support being based in Cali are closed now , so I'm stuck without my PC again probably for weeks!

badass1982
I have tried DDU , I have also tried reinstalling the drivers , which fails because there is no GPU visibly there in my system according to DDU, GPU-z or the driver itself. Card is also not detected when attempting to flash the stock BIOS to it.
 
this is not my first rodeo and I've been at this lark a long time.
 
I am refilling my loop tonight once I get out of work and will see if I can get the card to be seen, If not i will be draining it and RMA'ing the card.
 
 

Turbo-12R

TheNaitsyrk
Okay so I don't want to rub anything in anyone face. However, I had FTW3 3090 Ultra and I had the score of 4050 in Heaven 4 even at 2220mhz clock speed and 550W with 1000W KP bios +200 to core clock.

Sold it, got Suprim X and scores went up from 4050 to 4450. KP 520W bios works perfectly (ON AIR!) and PCI-E power doesn't go past 50W, clock speed 2160Mhz and no water block yet.

It's literally just a quick benchmark run. Don't know max OC etc yet or anything more but it's already 10% ahead.

Imagine what water block will do.

The fact that PCI-E power is out of spec doesn't help on FTW3.

Getting rid of FTW3 was the best decision ever.

 
Interesting.  My 3090 FTW3 RMA card scored just a tick higher (4600) while only maxing out at 473w power draw on the KP520 bios.  Does that mean my card is not only faster but more efficient?
 
Best decision ever keeping my FTW3. 
 
It's all subjective brother.  Plenty of other brands that GPU's fail to make the high score just the same as EVGA.

NICKODEMUS81
Hi Guys!
 
I'm new of the forum and is the first time that i bought a EVGA GPU, and it's the first time to that i buy a so powerfull one, i speak about of the RTX 3090 FTW3 ultra obviusly. ;) i have a questio,if I'm not wrong this vga have a switch for 2 kind of bios "gaming" and "normal", is correct? how it work?
 
Thank u at all for the help.