Megaman416

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 1.1.8.

 
If you could provide a quick break down of the steps you took it would be greatly appreciated by the lot of us wanting to put our hybrid kits back on.

I did nothing special I owned the PCB revision for about a day and I decided to reinstall the hybrid kit with the bios that PCB revision was shipped with everything works but you have no control over the fans when using x1 they run at 100% When the resize bar bios was available via X1 1.1.8 I went to Re-Bar section and flashed the bios.
Everything is working but LED colors are off and fans spin at 100% I'm using afterburner and fans spinning at 100% is solved. One thing I like to point out older bios don't work on this the PCB revision cards. (don't flash older bios on PCB revision cards)

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.

What is the RMA special program?

Do you guys think I should RMA? Max PCIE power draw is 79.2W while pin 1/2 are 151/161 W respectively (pin 2 looks too high?). Pin 3 draw is low, at 73.5W, so I get a total of 465W on the 500W BIOS. This was after 2hrs of gaming a Horizon Zero Dawn at 4K max settings. I was able to get 14,650 on PR and card is water cooled.

changboy

Bepzinky
Mine won't go above 1900-1950MHz...or it will spike occassionaly to 2100 and crash.

Use the curve setting to overclock and after 1.053 volt apply 2100mhz-2130mhz.

Cheers, can you post a screen shot of your curve?

hyuiop

changboy

Bepzinky
Mine won't go above 1900-1950MHz...or it will spike occassionaly to 2100 and crash.

Use the curve setting to overclock and after 1.053 volt apply 2100mhz-2130mhz.

Cheers, can you post a screen shot of your curve?

No, like i said at 1.053volt put 2120mhz and the curve will equalize automatically. 

I got my replacement program card today. New box, black lips. The load balance issues as far as the PCIe slot goes is fixed. Didn't see higher than around 60 watts. This thing does not overclock well though. I had the power bar pegged at 119% and 110 on the core crashes in PR. Same spot in PR every time. Saw 455 watts board power draw. I am on the 500w OC BIOS. Updated the VBIOS and mobo BIOS and have BAR enabled now. I will have to try some lower core numbers and see if I can get through a run. I'll be taking the card apart either tonight or tomorrow to get the optimus block applied. 

hyuiop
 
Nice one, can you post your board pics?
 
This is the voltage controller from raiden2a's replacement https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/3245989
 

yes, mine is also this controller.  I tried to look at the pics again, but unfortunately, they are not clear enough to see the markings on that particular chip.  I had to peer through the GPU fan to see the numbers.

junchoi
Do you guys think I should RMA? Max PCIE power draw is 79.2W while pin 1/2 are 151/161 W respectively (pin 2 looks too high?). Pin 3 draw is low, at 73.5W, so I get a total of 465W on the 500W BIOS. This was after 2hrs of gaming a Horizon Zero Dawn at 4K max settings. I was able to get 14,650 on PR and card is water cooled.

I would. It's above spec. 

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🤷🏼‍♂️

@Lord Winchester, @Jacob and other 3090 owners -  RE:  PCIe Draw over 75watts...
 
After reading about the PCIe draw issue, I tested my card and the total wattage drawn from my PCIE slot will occasionally spike to 80 watts under heavy load while gaming.  I am using a new Asus Maximus z590 Hero XIII mobo and i9-10900k thats overclocked to 5.2 all core and 5.0 bus (less than it can do, but great stable overclock without too much heat (i.e. occasional spikes above 70+ Celcius even with a Kraken x73 modded with 6 x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 3000RPM server rad fans in push/pull.)
 
My 3090 FTW3 Ultra, (converted to Hybrid and modded with 4 x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 3000RPM server rad fans in push/pull) was pulling as much as 512 watts total board draw on the previous EVGA 3090 FTW3 XOC 500 watt bios, and so far on the lastest official XOC bios with ReBAR support, I've only seen it pull as much as about 465watts.  
 
Questions:
1.  Is pulling an extra 5 watts from my pci-e slot really that dangerous to my mobo, especially with a mobo like the z590 Maximus HERO XIII and all temps besides just the CPU (i.e. Mobo VRM, etc...) completely under control?
 
2.  Are the new XOC bios for the (non-hybrid) EVGA 3090 FTW 3 Ultra no longer 500 watts?
 
Thanks for the help and info in advance!  My card performs great now that it's been converted to Hybrid, and all crap thermal pads replaced with Fuji Poly pads, Kryonaut Extreme, and the 4 fan push / pull mod - but if I am NOT getting the full power out of the card due to load balancing hardware issues, or overvolting the PCIe slot being highly likely to cause an issue with my $500 Mobo, I may want to RMA...  as much as it would suck to do :(

Den-ko

xgiovio
for anyone with the ftw3 ultra using the xc3 vbios, ru this exe and upgrade the xc3 vbios to rebar.
 

 
Do you have xc3 vbios link? trying to find it.
 
I'm also trying to find kinping 520w bios for 3090 ftw3 ultra

You can find the KP 520w bios for your card here - 
 
techpowerup.com/vgabios/227017/evga-rtx3090-24576-201110
 
You can find a great write-up from another forum member, explaining how to flash the BIOS using this new one here:
(For some reason the forum is blocking direct links from showing up on my posts... so add a Period (.) and then aspx at the end of the link below.)
 
forums.evga.com/BIOS-flash-guide-m3033450   (.aspx)
 
That said, I put the 520watt bios on my 3090 FTW3 Ultra that's been converted to Hybrid, uses Kryonaut Extreme thermal grease on the GPU, and all thermal pads (which suck) were replaced front and back with expensive but amazingly effective Fuji Poly thermal pads.  Lastly, I removed the 2 EVGA Fans and replaced them with 4 x Noctua NF-F12 iPPC 3000RPM server rad fans in push/pull running at 100% speed.
 
The KP bios work just fine, but to be honest I get better results using the 500watt XOC bios that are linked by Jacob as the first post in this thread.  I can actually get that BIOS to give me as much as 512 watts total board power draw, where the KP was only getting to about 465 - 475watts and wasn't as stable.

phroze

junchoi
Do you guys think I should RMA? Max PCIE power draw is 79.2W while pin 1/2 are 151/161 W respectively (pin 2 looks too high?). Pin 3 draw is low, at 73.5W, so I get a total of 465W on the 500W BIOS. This was after 2hrs of gaming a Horizon Zero Dawn at 4K max settings. I was able to get 14,650 on PR and card is water cooled.

I would. It's above spec. 

I'm a bit out of the loop. So the PCIE isn't supposed to draw more than ~60W right? I got my card recently and I noticed this after stumbling upon this thread. I should RMA it, right? This is with the XOC bios installed too
 

 

Rygar1976

changboy

hyuiop

changboy

Bepzinky
Mine won't go above 1900-1950MHz...or it will spike occassionaly to 2100 and crash.

Use the curve setting to overclock and after 1.053 volt apply 2100mhz-2130mhz.

Cheers, can you post a screen shot of your curve?

No, like i said at 1.053volt put 2120mhz and the curve will equalize automatically. 

I was able to get up to 2205 at 1.053 volts but 2120 is perfect for daily stability.  Point being, I agree with this dude.  :)

What program are you using to specifically target 1.053v?

So I installed the XOC BIOS on my 3090 FTW3 Ultra and it looks like I am still getting about 440W power cap after setting to 119%.  Does that mean I got one of the older cards and need to do some sort of warranty exchange to get the version that isn't hard capped at 440?

Dasoa
Hi phroze
I am receiving my new 0c3090 program card next week.
I noticed that after validating my return a link in my profile showed the Part Number Out:24G-P5-3982-B2
But to my surprise, a few hours later, it showed the Part Number Out link: 24G-P5-3982-B2 to my old reference of defective cards!
Are you in Europe like me (France) and what reference number did you receive?
I have the impression that he is trying to sell me another card with voltage balancing defects!
What do you think, is it normal according to you? I contacted the mail called evgapmteam which made the steps of RMA. I am waiting for their answer, my card is supposed to be shipped on 4/6/2021!

It is normal. Same thing happened to me. It swapped out to the original P/N right before it shipped. I believe 24G-P5-3982-B2 is just a placeholder letting them know to ship the updated card. Mine showed up yesterday and is definitely the updated version. I am in United States.

Dasoa
OK, so it's normal according to you that it is replaced the reference "Part Number Out following:24G-P5-3982-B2" in a few hours by the reference "Part Number Out folowing:24G-P5-3987-KR" which corresponds to the Number of my old card sent to the rma.
Are you sure they don't want to send me back a card with the reference 24G-P5-3987-KR which corresponds to the problematic cards?
What number did you receive?

The card I received is 24G-P5-3987-KR and the serial starts with 2114. You shouldn't have anything to worry about.