Dasoa
OK I thank you for your help phrose. I hope you are right.
If not have you updated the vbios for the Resizable Bar with the bios links given by jacob:Standard: https://cdn.evga.com/bios...es/3982V940242C005.zip
OC: https://cdn.evga.com/bios...es/3982K940242C002.zip
Or did you use px1(if yes which version the 1.1.8.0 or the unofficial 1.1.8.1)
No problem with the 3rd fan with px1 ?

I have updated the BIOS for BAR support using PX1. 1.1.8.0. The third fan does not show. I do not care in my instance because I use a waterblock.

OK thanks for your support, it's nice of you. If one day you come to France you will be welcomed ;) Good day to you 

How do I enter into the exchange program for a power balanced version of the card?  I can't find anything about the program.

Tearing into my card and I find that EVGA is using what was supposed to be 3080ti chips for these 3090 program cards. Notice the GA 102 250 that is crossed out? I want to know why we got stuck with the supposedly lower binned chips?
 

phroze
Tearing into my card and I find that EVGA is using what was supposed to be 3080ti chips for these 3090 program cards. Notice the GA 102 250 that is crossed out? I want to know why we got stuck with the supposedly lower binned chips?
 

Interesting!  I'm still waiting on my waterblock before I tear mine down but I did see GPUz still lists all the shaders and TMUs that it should have.

 If EVGA dont have the 3090 chip but get newer from nvidia how they can built those card without the chip.
 
Its not EVGA made the chip, they come from Nvidia and its also nvidia can crossed out the name on the chip and not EVGA.
 
EVGA is not allowed to mod the name chip from nvidia. This chip need to be the same then the 3090 but the pcb board of the card will allow more or less vram with power phase. 

phroze

changboy
 If EVGA dont have the 3090 chip but get newer from nvidia how they can built those card without the chip.
 
Its not EVGA made the chip, they come from Nvidia and its also nvidia can crossed out the name on the chip and not EVGA.
 
EVGA is not allowed to mod the name chip from nvidia. This chip need to be the same then the 3090 but the pcb board of the card will allow more or less vram with power phase. 

But evga is still getting the 300 die. Why not put the lower tier on a lower tier card instead of one of the flagships?

Where you see they still getting the 300 die when even nvidia itself need to put the 250 one ?

MiztahSparklez

changboy

Where you see they still getting the 300 die when even nvidia itself need to put the 250 one ?

 
Mine came with a 300 die.  They probably had a very short run of 3080Ti before they scrapped it.  I wouldn't be worried unless you weren't hitting the same performance/getting the same number of cores.

I'll do more benchmarking tomorrow with the water block. I wasn't able to get +100 on the core on air. Has me very worried.

Hey guys!

Any news on how to get XC3 bios with rebar on FTW3? Im on XOC bios with rebar atm and i would like to switch to xc3 with rebar.
 
Ty!
 

What is a decent overclock score for the 500W bios?
I´ve flashed it and it´s working. did a run yesterday with rebar on. +800Mhz memory and +115 on gpu. peak temp on the vram was 66°C in gpuz.
What I don´t get is that I´m getting a 1319Mhz average memory clock frequency, it should be higher so it looks something isn´t being applied here
Any tips?
 
Peak power draw was 477W.
 
Curious how far I can push this, running on watercooling.
images of my score and stats down here.

r1oNN
Hey guys!

Any news on how to get XC3 bios with rebar on FTW3? Im on XOC bios with rebar atm and i would like to switch to xc3 with rebar.
 
Ty!
 

So, I got one of the special replacement RMA cards with the power slot issue fixed. I just installed a hybrid kit last night and can confirm that I got one of the GA102-250 to GA102-300 chips. I didn’t realize these chips were meant for the 3080 Ti until coming across it in these later posts…

I’m kind of annoyed that the chips were likely going through a different binning process when these updated cards were sent out - silicon lottery is one thing, but a different bin of a chip is another. Kind of disappointed that EVGA would do this on a card being replaced for someone who is clearly a power user (no pun intended) that returned a card because of a relatively obscure issue. They should have probably relegated these chips to XC3 cards only, not FTW3 ultras, but I don’t know exactly what their process is for deciding what chip goes where. Just would have liked to know this was happening, because it does seem to have some kind of impact.

My prior chip definitely clocked higher than this one. I’m still trying to dial it in, but even water cooled, this card doesn’t seem to like more than +100 to core (I was pretty easily running +150 on my original card on air and it seemed to hit higher boost clocks, though somewhat erratically due to the power delivery issues of the card).

That said, even with the lower boost clocks (it only seems to be one or two speed bins lower when boosting up), the new card seems to perform at least on par or maybe even a little better than the previous card because of the power draw fix.

Ironically I may actually have to lower my core overclock a bit with the hybrid kit installed - perhaps because it’s maintaining those high boost clocks for longer, it seems less stable with the hybrid on in long stress tests than it was on air. It got several hundred points lower in benchmarks on air, but never crashed. Just in the 3dmark stress test, I’m noticing that it can’t survive reliably through the test at +100 core. I’m going to continue to test though, and ironically, I might be coming into thermal issues even using the water cooler (I’m trying to see how quiet I can get it - maybe I need to ratchet things up a bit). Maybe I should be ignoring the 3dmark stress test? Everything else seems to be running fine, but I typically shoot to have ALL tests I can run be fully stable on my overclocks.

Overall, I have mixed feelings about this situation. Part of me wishes I had gone down the hybrid route with my initial card before trying the special RMA, but I probably would have never done that. I’m thankful that EVGA tried to do something here, but at the same time, if they’re going to go out of their way to communicate “special RMAs” and the like with their more dedicated users, things like arguable die revisions (it has a different name crossed out on the chip) should be explained - if anything, to at least make us feel better if it’s their position that these chips weren’t actually binned differently.

Still a great card and it’s certainly been a learning process. Also stoked about having my first water cooled card. I don’t have a custom loop, so the fact that EVGA has these kits available to begin with is pretty awesome. It was a fun project! 👍

Well good to know, I'm at the point of putting mine in a box and RMA'ing it but after it comes back it will be replaced by a 3090 Strix OC. Sad truth.

Notchy44
Can someone please post or link me the 500w XOC Hybrid FTW3 Ultra Bios with Resizable bar support. I cant seem to find it. Also do I have to install the new X1 to enable resizable bar support or can it be turned on in NVidia control panel.

Vbios:  Post 5403
 
Don’t know on X1, but latest v1.8.1.1: https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/3249659 post 277

zig11727
This whole RMA has been a nightmare The PCI-E slot problem is solved but now I have 250 chip instead of a 300 chip. The 250 chip should been used in 3080ti not the 3090 FTW3 Ultra.
 

Yeah, I feel you. FWIW, even though my new card boosts a little lower, my scores were all about the same when it was on air as the first one, though at a slightly higher power draw. And the PCIE slot pulls well under 75 watts.

Now with the hybrid cooler installed, benchmarks are consistently getting 200-300 points higher in Timespy Extreme and PR with lower temps and quieter fan curves.

While I was hoping for 15,000+ PR scores, I’m more around 14,300-14,600 with a cooler, quieter system. Previously, I was around 13,900-14,100 on air with the original card, so it is an improvement.

And, now I have a collector’s item (a chip with a crossed out label). 😂