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altimax98
I installed the card, DDU, updated drivers, installed precision, flashed the XOC lol

Didn’t run stock bios for more than like 10 minutes lol

I guess what I meant to ask is, is there a special XOC Bios specifically for the Hybrid Kit or will the XOC Bios for the FTW work?

Yeah it’s in the same thread. Third linked BIOS 

I ordered the hybrid kit for my 3090 XC3 which arrives tomorrow. Should I just use the thermal paste that's pre-applied to the AiO cold plate or should I use some Coolaboratory liquid metal that I have? Turns out I'm all out of Kryonaut and wouldn't be able get any shipped here until next Monday at the earliest (and I just don't want to wait that long). I know that it's conductive and I'd have to be very careful not to get it on any SMD's or other components, but would I be better off long term just using the pre-applied paste or should I go for the gusto and use liquid metal? Thanks in advance

bonelesscheese
I ordered the hybrid kit for my 3090 XC3 which arrives tomorrow. Should I just use the thermal paste that's pre-applied to the AiO cold plate or should I use some Coolaboratory liquid metal that I have? Turns out I'm all out of Kryonaut and wouldn't be able get any shipped here until next Monday at the earliest (and I just don't want to wait that long). I know that it's conductive and I'd have to be very careful not to get it on any SMD's or other components, but would I be better off long term just using the pre-applied paste or should I go for the gusto and use liquid metal? Thanks in advance

my opinion for sanity is to use your own. but thats up to you. 

Systom
Imagine a world.

Make it happen, 4000 series.
Thank me later for the billions.
FIGURE OUT THE PUMP.

LOL!  Aquacomputer makes integrated pump/rads that you can just plumb right onto a GPU or CPU block, problem is the cost for that and a block is going to run well over $400.
 
https://modmymods.com/rad...or-pump-res-combo.html

Systom
Imagine a world.

Make it happen, 4000 series.
Thank me later for the billions.
FIGURE OUT THE PUMP.

Would cost like +$400.

another-user
i got my 3090 hybrid ftw last wednesday.  installed it wed afternoon, pulled it by thursday afternoon for my old 1080.  the system kept shutting down under load.  an evga rep and i both agreed it could be the psu (seasonic 850 gold, first gen with the over volt tripping issue)
the new psu came in yesterday afternoon and i reinstalled the 3090.  everything was good.  i benched the hell out of it and everything was stable.
 
today the system black screened while i was playing a game, and the fans spun up and stuck at 100% in the entire system.  so i shut down and restarted, and made some adjustments to my system.  just moved all the high powered things to seperate outlets to make sure i wasnt pulling too much juice at the wall, or from my UPS.   
 
witcher 3 lasted about 1 min....  the system black screened again with an audible snap.   so i turned the computer back on to try and assess the damages.  i saw a quick flash of light from someplace in the back of the card and was then greeted with the red led on the far right pcie plug.
 
so ya... probably less than 48hrs of actual run time on the card and shes dead.

kevinc313

10G-P5-3898-KR   12/16/2020    9:02:40 AM PT    No
 
 
 
Finally did good.

 
After months of yapping I finally bought an Ampere card.  Figure the 3080 Ti is vaporware at this point.  Did pretty good with 2 day shipping, associate code and 30 EVGA bucks.  Got the purchase notification about an hour and a half after signing up for notify, but debated all afternoon about actually getting it.  Now I just need a new case and CLC280, will do a system rebuild next week.  Might sell my 2080 Ti Hybrid.

Sounds like Nvidia will probably announce the 3080 Ti at their January 12th event and it'll go on sale in Feb.

"GeForce RTX Game On Event Scheduled for January 12th; Four New Games Add NVIDIA Reflex" https://wccftech.com/gefo...add-nvidia-reflex/amp/

another-user
so ya... probably less than 48hrs of actual run time on the card and shes dead.

Damn man.. that sucks and sorry to hear that!  I know EVGA will take care of you though.. Best in the business customer service.  You'll see. 
 
Good luck going forward bud!
 
 

comrade
On the hybrid cards with the attached radiator...., is the pump located on the card or on the radiator?  I have always found that AIO cooling systems work best with the pump at the lowest point in the system.
 
With my case there is space for a dual fan radiator either on the bottom or the top of the case.  There is also space on the side panel  If the pump is on the radiator, I would mount the radiator on the bottom of the case.  If the pump is on the card, I would mount the radiator on the top of the case.
  

 
The pump is located on the card itself.  It's similarly setup like most CPU AIOs are.  

My FTW3 hybrid KIT arrived. Install was easy but very time consuming, not in a bad way.. It just took 2 hours because the thermal pads and goop were everywhere and spread out to all nearby electronics so I wanted to clean off the PCB which was probably an hour on it's own.  
 
One observation: on the backing plate 2 of the 4 thermal pads were not making contact as they came off easily and were smooth.
 
One Issue & Feedback for EVGA:  don't skimp on the backing plate and reuse the damaged and dirty pads.. include a strip of padding so we can lay a fresh one down. two of my pads were completely destroyed in removing the backing plate so now I have a ball of thermal padding, some dried out that I had to roll into little balls and put on each memory chip.  not happy with that over 11 cents in thermal padding.  c'mon man!! you shoulda given me the extra strip to do it right.
 
Net result:  for PWR & MEM temps card idles at 32c, GPU idles at 25c in a room where ambient is 24c. At load with fan around 50% my GPU temp hits 51c, If I back it down to Quiet or Stealth on the curve it hits 56c, after about an hour the room raised a few degrees and I saw 58c.  
 
for OverClocking: On air I could do +120/+220 - anything else resulted in crashes.... with the hybrid kit I can do +220/+350 stable.  so a substantial gain and that's with 20c lower temps and much quieter fan speeds...  I think my memory increase is due to the poor thermal pad contact and I would think having thermal padding covering 5 sides of each MEM chip & VRM is hurting more than helping.
 
Conclusion: I'm very happy, and although I have more OC headroom, the reality is my max power draw is still only 420W to 440w so I don't know if I can do more, and my Port Royal scores didn't improve at all.. still 14,300 range... which I'm perfectly happy with.  the only issue I have remaining is that the card NEVER wakes up from sleep, hasn't ever once since the first day I got it... 
 
EDIT:  Adding that I use 4 Noctua high static pressure fans in push/pull config instead of the stock EVGA kit fans.

Ok..., thanks!  That clears up a lot of questions about mounting the radiator.
 
Thanks again!

I thought the hydro coppers got delayed.

NickBecker19
Safe to say I may have finally won a silicone lottery on my 3090 FTW3 Hybrid!

I am able to maintain a constant 2150 Mhz at 1.0V with +1000 memory and max temp reaching 58 degrees....... this is after hours of gaming on CyberPunk and Control so I know everything is stable!

This card is insane. On the King Pin list as well, but I don’t think this card will be going anywhere!

Nice, what resolution and power draw?

Dabadger84
Yeah they had notify me up for about 5 minutes then it disappeared... only been waiting for this card to exist & be purchaseable for 6 months+, heaven forbid I leave the site for 30 minutes to do some things & miss out...
 
Isn't the entire point of the Notify Me system so that people DO NOT have to watch the site & HOPE they get one before it disappears?  Doesn't this entirely defeat the purpose?  I can understand not wanting to have thousands of orders for a card that is limited per-batch, but come on, you could've done Elite only or SOMETHING to get this to people that actually intend to use it.  

^ +1 literally this. I've jumped on all the wait lists and never got any notification at all. I do appreciate what EVGA is trying to do but feels like there just isn't enough production. 

4K on an oled CX48. Power draw on Cyber punk peaks at 235, which I know isn’t correct as I did a thing online where I flashed with a diff bios and it allows it to pull more power but uses the baseline as 300 so that still gives me tons of headroom!

NickBecker19
Safe to say I may have finally won a silicone lottery on my 3090 FTW3 Hybrid!

I am able to maintain a constant 2150 Mhz at 1.0V with +1000 memory and max temp reaching 58 degrees....... this is after hours of gaming on CyberPunk and Control so I know everything is stable!

This card is insane. On the King Pin list as well, but I don’t think this card will be going anywhere!

Do a 3dmark stress test with port royal, timespy and firestrike.