Your board is in AIR? Another question: Wich are the first 4 serial numbers?

Yeap air stock cooler.
Taiwan made (red lips)
Later when ill be home i will post the 4 numbers

*I found the 4 numbers of mine in my phone
20141

this is my first number of my card : 2014133987xxxxxx

Pennywise359
I wouldn't worry about anything below 100w. It won't blow up your 24 pin the majority of mobos are designed to handle 2 gpu's without aux power which is 100w+

 
1000% correct...  Everyone freaking out of slot power...  yet they forget 2 things....  that those are just spikes not sustained and also the 10% variance allowed so that 83 watts..  
Strange how evga had a 120 wat fuse on the card for the slot while other cards have a 240 watt fuse....  maybe because they know something we don't????   lol  those cooky electrical engineers  

god503

Pennywise359
I wouldn't worry about anything below 100w. It won't blow up your 24 pin the majority of mobos are designed to handle 2 gpu's without aux power which is 100w+

 
1000% correct...  Everyone freaking out of slot power...  yet they forget 2 things....  that those are just spikes not sustained and also the 10% variance allowed so that 83 watts..  
Strange how evga had a 120 wat fuse on the card for the slot while other cards have a 240 watt fuse....  maybe because they know something we don't????   lol  those cooky electrical engineers  

 
And still evga is replacing my card for pulling about 80 Watts.
 
Seems like "they" indeed know something we don't. 
 
 
 

nosde

Lord Winchester

god503

Pennywise359
I wouldn't worry about anything below 100w. It won't blow up your 24 pin the majority of mobos are designed to handle 2 gpu's without aux power which is 100w+

 
1000% correct...  Everyone freaking out of slot power...  yet they forget 2 things....  that those are just spikes not sustained and also the 10% variance allowed so that 83 watts..  
Strange how evga had a 120 wat fuse on the card for the slot while other cards have a 240 watt fuse....  maybe because they know something we don't????   lol  those cooky electrical engineers  

 
And still evga is replacing my card for pulling about 80 Watts.
 
Seems like "they" indeed know something we don't. 
 
 
 

How many cards you ask for RMA? What #SN?

 
This is the first one (and hopefully the last) 
 
2014 Serial number Black Lip

changboy
Some of you guys buy rtx-3090 like me i buy a 10$ t-shirt lol

Hahaha

 What is sad its about 12w can be split on the 3x 4w on each 8pins !
So i dont know who made that desing but he better found another way to earned is living lol.

Someone can ask EVGA if they can fix this with a new bios update maybe......

arestavo

changboy
Someone can ask EVGA if they can fix this with a new bios update maybe......

I like your comedic style. When/where is your next gig?

Dude i already have 3 rig hehehe : i9-10980xe-i9-7900x-i7-4930k lol.

elbramso
Hi,
first time poster^^
 
I'm in a weird situation... My RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra has this power balance issue (Model 2014...).
When I use the stock OC BIOS the card will often pull up to 81 watt from the pcie connector.
My card really delivers, even when it's not exceeding 420 watts!
I was able to score 14180 in port royal with a custon voltage curve. The benchmark just flys through with 2040MHz and a memory offset of +720 at 0.956mv!!!
When I bench like that the card will never draw more than 430 watt in total and the pcie is at 77 watt max.
 
From all what I've read here that is kinda good - I'd love to see how this card would handle 500 watt but I'm scared to try the kingpin bios.
 

Looks like we got same version of this card have the problem but performing pretty OK.  Did you investigate GPU Z?  Mine did not show the issue of big load on #1 #2 and the #3 small.  I just see too little for all 8 pin.  I also got perma perf limiter showing the power gimp only.  May be might as well try less voltage as well.  I do not have any other idea for this type of card besides illegal 1000W bios.

god503

Lord Winchester

god503

Pennywise359
I wouldn't worry about anything below 100w. It won't blow up your 24 pin the majority of mobos are designed to handle 2 gpu's without aux power which is 100w+

 
1000% correct...  Everyone freaking out of slot power...  yet they forget 2 things....  that those are just spikes not sustained and also the 10% variance allowed so that 83 watts..  
Strange how evga had a 120 wat fuse on the card for the slot while other cards have a 240 watt fuse....  maybe because they know something we don't????   lol  those cooky electrical engineers  

 
And still evga is replacing my card for pulling about 80 Watts.
 
Seems like "they" indeed know something we don't. 
 
 
 

Talking to secretary on the phone with a flow chart doesn't mean any thing....

So we have reports from people round the globe receiving new cards out of RMA. And then we have you sayin "high pcie draw doesn't matter".
What are you trying to achieve?  Fact is, evga is exchanging most cards

500wbiso

elbramso
Hi,
first time poster^^
 
I'm in a weird situation... My RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra has this power balance issue (Model 2014...).
When I use the stock OC BIOS the card will often pull up to 81 watt from the pcie connector.
My card really delivers, even when it's not exceeding 420 watts!
I was able to score 14180 in port royal with a custon voltage curve. The benchmark just flys through with 2040MHz and a memory offset of +720 at 0.956mv!!!
When I bench like that the card will never draw more than 430 watt in total and the pcie is at 77 watt max.
 
From all what I've read here that is kinda good - I'd love to see how this card would handle 500 watt but I'm scared to try the kingpin bios.
 

Looks like we got same version of this card have the problem but performing pretty OK.  Did you investigate GPU Z?  Mine did not show the issue of big load on #1 #2 and the #3 small.  I just see too little for all 8 pin.  I also got perma perf limiter showing the power gimp only.  May be might as well try less voltage as well.  I do not have any other idea for this type of card besides illegal 1000W bios.

Yes, I did notice this as well. 2 of 3 8 pins worked "normal" and 1 was way behind in power draw. Might sound stupid but it kinda looks like the third 8pin connector is somehow married to the pcie connector in case of power draw^^.
 
It's sad that I have to undervolt my card just to avoid power spikes on the pcie connector...
btw. I've opened a ticket days ago but nothing came back :(

Has anyone wondered how accurate the watt measurements are on the card????? Everyone is assuming that what gpu z reports is correct????

god503

Lord Winchester
Update:
 
I just received my RMA replacement Card:
 
Brand new in the Box 2014 Black Lip Taiwan Card. 
 
Serial number is smaller than the one I send back. So it could be an "older model" is there a way to check production date? 

If the slot draws more than 75 are u going to return that card too??? Time consuming process for something that doesn't interfere with the cards function.

 
 
Yes, if it's exceeding the pcie Spec more than I feel comfortable with it gets returned again. 
 
 

god503
Has anyone wondered how accurate the watt measurements are on the card????? Everyone is assuming that what gpu z reports is correct????

 

It's the easiest way of measuring the power draw.
 
And it got to be somewhat accurate enough if evga is replacing them for a Screenshot of gpu-z.
 
 
Also, have you ever seen the 8 Pin Wattage exceeding the 150 Watt? I didn't. So even if gpu-z is not accurate, it gives you an idea. 
 
 
I'm not trying to force you to RMA your card, if you feel comfortable with it. But would you please stop other people from trying to RMA? 
 
 
I have spent a metric ton of money on this gpu. So I'm expecting it to work within spec. (remember, if the load balancing would work as intended, the card could pull 525 Watt and still be in Spec for PCI-E Slot and 8 Pin power)