Notchy44

glocked89

cerealkeller
So it does appear to be working for me now.  I have been testing with a 3 different  BIOS.  The stock BIOS, the XC3 BIOS, and the 500w XOC BIOS.  I want to point out that I went to overclock.net and downloaded the BIOS from there and nvflash, and flashed the BIOS manually, rather than using the one EVGA provided.  I got out my Kill a Watt and did some testing with that to confirm my findings.  The stock BIOS, wouldn't exceed around 660 watts total system draw at the wall socket.  The XC3 and the 500w BIOS both maxed out around 710w.  I was able to get the same OC with the 500w BIOS as the XC3 BIOS except it's not all glitchy and things report correctly.  Actually my fan still has that weird bug, don't ask me what that's about.  Won't matter it a couple weeks when I get my water block.  I didn't have the fan bug on the stock BIOS, but I did on the XC3 BIOS and/or if I tried to use Afterburner instead of PrecisionX

Hey thanks for trying those out! I flashed using the links posted at the "3090's owners club" thread at overclockers.net. Unfortunately I am still limited to 460watts just like the one Jacob posted. I am able to go up to 119% power limit,91c temp, and gpuz showed 500w, but the card will not pull more than 460watts. Using the bios at overclockers, the three fans on my ftw3ultra are now working properly at least... I just hope this gets sorted out before I get the hybrid cooling kit in my hands. 

So how did you know its only pulling 460 Watts? I know Gpu - Z isnt the tell all sensor but did you test from your wall? Also was that running Port Royal when you only pulled 460?

andressergio

cerealkeller
So it does appear to be working for me now.  I have been testing with a 3 different  BIOS.  The stock BIOS, the XC3 BIOS, and the 500w XOC BIOS.  I want to point out that I went to overclock.net and downloaded the BIOS from there and nvflash, and flashed the BIOS manually, rather than using the one EVGA provided.  I got out my Kill a Watt and did some testing with that to confirm my findings.  The stock BIOS, wouldn't exceed around 660 watts total system draw at the wall socket.  The XC3 and the 500w BIOS both maxed out around 710w.  I was able to get the same OC with the 500w BIOS as the XC3 BIOS except it's not all glitchy and things report correctly.  Actually my fan still has that weird bug, don't ask me what that's about.  Won't matter it a couple weeks when I get my water block.  I didn't have the fan bug on the stock BIOS, but I did on the XC3 BIOS and/or if I tried to use Afterburner instead of PrecisionX

For me and for my findings is temperature related, if you stay on 60C or below the jumps on clocks are reduced, I'm NOT saying the XOC BIOS is OK but this helps. I added a fan close to the backplate on the caps zone and put ALL 3 fans of the GPU at 63% when Gaming and stays seats on +112 Core and +1000/1250, this transaltes in 2070-2085 and 10752/11002 MEM. And for Gaming boosting MEM adds nice FPS, more than CORE. As for the Benchmarks yes it's limited and jumps because of the super heavy load.
 
I also used Afterburner to put 1Volt (Undervolted it) and used the same settings and runs perfect, so maybe I was just lucky on the GPU and MEM bin or whatever. Please link what you say bro there's a ton of posts on OCN so I can try it and report back, but highly doubt it's the flashing method. I didn't try XC3 can you link it to me please? I read that PX1 will still work is it correct? Thank You!!!
 
Cheers to All hope EVGA can fix this soon at least gives as a steady 500W XOC BIOS.
 

sparetimepc

crossbone

andressergio

cerealkeller
So it does appear to be working for me now.  I have been testing with a 3 different  BIOS.  The stock BIOS, the XC3 BIOS, and the 500w XOC BIOS.  I want to point out that I went to overclock.net and downloaded the BIOS from there and nvflash, and flashed the BIOS manually, rather than using the one EVGA provided.  I got out my Kill a Watt and did some testing with that to confirm my findings.  The stock BIOS, wouldn't exceed around 660 watts total system draw at the wall socket.  The XC3 and the 500w BIOS both maxed out around 710w.  I was able to get the same OC with the 500w BIOS as the XC3 BIOS except it's not all glitchy and things report correctly.  Actually my fan still has that weird bug, don't ask me what that's about.  Won't matter it a couple weeks when I get my water block.  I didn't have the fan bug on the stock BIOS, but I did on the XC3 BIOS and/or if I tried to use Afterburner instead of PrecisionX

For me and for my findings is temperature related, if you stay on 60C or below the jumps on clocks are reduced, I'm NOT saying the XOC BIOS is OK but this helps. I added a fan close to the backplate on the caps zone and put ALL 3 fans of the GPU at 63% when Gaming and stays seats on +112 Core and +1000/1250, this transaltes in 2070-2085 and 10752/11002 MEM. And for Gaming boosting MEM adds nice FPS, more than CORE. As for the Benchmarks yes it's limited and jumps because of the super heavy load.
 
I also used Afterburner to put 1Volt (Undervolted it) and used the same settings and runs perfect, so maybe I was just lucky on the GPU and MEM bin or whatever. Please link what you say bro there's a ton of posts on OCN so I can try it and report back, but highly doubt it's the flashing method. I didn't try XC3 can you link it to me please? I read that PX1 will still work is it correct? Thank You!!!
 
Cheers to All hope EVGA can fix this soon at least gives as a steady 500W XOC BIOS.
 

As mentioned above they seem to have a new bios, which is just not openly available for everyone, I got it via mail. Open a case with customer support and you might receive it as well.

I'm assuming the bios they sent you is the bios that's on the first page of this thread isn't it?

sparetimepc
Have you opened up gpuz and recorded what your bios versions are now here on the forum so we can compare yours to ours?

crossbone

sparetimepc
Have you opened up gpuz and recorded what your bios versions are now here on the forum so we can compare yours to ours?

As mentioned I returned the card, have no screenshots, sorry, and cannot test the new bios

Notchy44

crossbone

sparetimepc
Have you opened up gpuz and recorded what your bios versions are now here on the forum so we can compare yours to ours?

As mentioned I returned the card, have no screenshots, sorry, and cannot test the new bios

Could you maybe send the bios to one of us so we can test it and verify if its different? Also Temp on my card does not change how much power my card is willing to pull. Iv had my card up to 82c (forgot to max fans on a bench) and it was still cranking out 500+ watts.

slovak_killer
Can u say for which card they sent u the bios ? Its saying no compatible display adapters found even if have ID of Ultra or Non Ultra

crossbone

slovak_killer
Can u say for which card they sent u the bios ? Its saying no compatible display adapters found even if have ID of Ultra or Non Ultra

I had an FTW3 Ultra, so hope they sent a matching BIOS. In the ticket I mentioned the 500W Problem and this thread, and the response I got was the one mentioned further above and the zip file with the BIOSes you received.

crossbone

slovak_killer
Can u say for which card they sent u the bios ? Its saying no compatible display adapters found even if have ID of Ultra or Non Ultra

I had an FTW3 Ultra, so hope they sent a matching BIOS. In the ticket I mentioned the 500W Problem and this thread, and the response I got was the one mentioned further above and the zip file with the BIOSes you received.

sparetimepc

Notchy44

slovak_killer
Can u say for which card they sent u the bios ? Its saying no compatible display adapters found even if have ID of Ultra or Non Ultra

 
yeah same here, tried both the OC and the Normal file

I wonder if will need to go back to the original bios from factory before it will let us flash these.

Notchy44

sparetimepc

Notchy44

slovak_killer
Can u say for which card they sent u the bios ? Its saying no compatible display adapters found even if have ID of Ultra or Non Ultra

yeah same here, tried both the OC and the Normal file

I wonder if will need to go back to the original bios from factory before it will let us flash these.

I tried on my Normal bios switch, I never flashed that bios to the new Beta Normal bios yet. Also when I switched back to the OC bios I had to reinstall the beta OC drivers again to get my full 500 watt power again. I wonder if anyone is switching back and forth and not running the oc.exe again.

slovak_killer

Notchy44

sparetimepc

Notchy44

slovak_killer
Can u say for which card they sent u the bios ? Its saying no compatible display adapters found even if have ID of Ultra or Non Ultra

yeah same here, tried both the OC and the Normal file

I wonder if will need to go back to the original bios from factory before it will let us flash these.

I tried on my Normal bios switch, I never flashed that bios to the new Beta Normal bios yet. Also when I switched back to the OC bios I had to reinstall the beta OC drivers again to get my full 500 watt power again. I wonder if anyone is switching back and forth and not running the oc.exe again.

Hmm ? So the OC.exe works for anyone ?

Exnetic
did not know this was going to happend, ufff.  had evga gpus and mb for years no issue. first thing on this thing :O    waiting for 3080ti hope they do good about that card.