Interesting about the 3090's.
 
 

Dabadger84
Not to dig at Jacob because I know he can only say what he can say etc., but we've been hearing this "it's being worked on" and "expect to hear something soon" since late October.  Moved on to a Kingpin for precisely this reason.

Well, it takes time, ya know, with covid and all **** going on. At least they have acknowledged they know about it. It was the same when the cards initially launched with gimped power and they acknowledged it and then released the XOC bioses, took time. Also, October? I've never seen them acknowledging this new issue up until this tweet in February, care to post a link where they have known it since October?

EVGA needs to fix this. Don't reward them by "moving" to Kingpin. Your card breaks, RMA. Second, third one breaks? RMA again and again. Trust me, the more dead cards they get sitting near their front door through RMAs, the sooner they'll get around to solving this for everyone.

Rewire92

Dabadger84
Not to dig at Jacob because I know he can only say what he can say etc., but we've been hearing this "it's being worked on" and "expect to hear something soon" since late October.  Moved on to a Kingpin for precisely this reason.

Dabadger84
Not to dig at Jacob because I know he can only say what he can say etc., but we've been hearing this "it's being worked on" and "expect to hear something soon" since late October.  Moved on to a Kingpin for precisely this reason.

Dabadger84
Not to dig at Jacob because I know he can only say what he can say etc., but we've been hearing this "it's being worked on" and "expect to hear something soon" since late October.  Moved on to a Kingpin for precisely this reason.

How did you "move to a Kingpin"?

I have been trying to buy one, but I'm not going to pay a scalper for it.  Tired of my 3090s and their RMA issues.  Dealing with undervolting just to prevent the card from dying prematurely.

EVGA won't let me Step-Up.  Says that "moving from FTW3 to Kingpin cards is not a step-up option."  Ok?  That doesn't help me with the terrible way the release was handled.

I'm curious, is there anything to step up to for the 3090 FTW3? If not Kingpin then what else is there?

Lord Winchester

Bozhemoy
 

I'm curious, is there anything to step up to for the 3090 FTW3? If not Kingpin then what else is there?

 
 
 
Stepup is just the name. If I click on Stepup, I also get the option to choose a "smaller" card than I have. 
Haven't tried it because the kingpin is not in the European Stepup program anyways. 

Yea that's what I figured. I didn't even realize that Step Up was a thing, I ended up registering my card 16 days after purchase instead of 14 (otherwise I would've just done it ASAP) so now I'm not eligible unless I purchase the extended warranty.  I'm assuming if you step down then you just get store credit of some sort so I don't think I'm interested in stepping down to a 3080.  I don't think the Kingpin is available for Step Up in the US either (but I could be wrong). So now I'm debating purchasing the extension, might be worth it in the long run anyway.  But in either case, this is my first EVGA card ever (the last time I had an NVIDIA card was more than a decade ago; it's been ATI since then) and honestly, I'm a little underwhelmed.  I guess it's nice hearing stories that their customer support and warranty process is great. Like I'm financially secure enough to where I can buy a 3090 and not sweat it, but can't really recommend this card to anyone.

Drwaffles
Still no comment on this? It's been coming up on 4 months...

Nope, nothing. They akwnoldegded the issue with 3090s, but they didn't for 3080s ftw ultras. I even sent Jacob screengrabs from GPUz, afterburner etc proving the 3080s ftw ultras suffer from the same, but he acted like they didn't know about it and asked me some more shots, which I sent and nothing ever came up from it. I kind of gave up trying to prove it to them. Maybe if more people, and not just me sends them screengrabs proving it (try jacobs twitter) the may look at it. I would guess its not financially viable for them to replace thousands of 3080's instead of hundreds of 3090s (I'm guessing right here, since 3090s are more expensive and less units are sold with the issue)....

remember guys even thought evga has the best customer service the best warranty the best people working for the company and they do all this on there own some things take longer than others also remember jacob is constantly answering questions on twitter and helping with tech support there is only so much time in a day and everyoone still wants there gpu to get built tested and sent out CUT THEM A BREAK THINGS WILL GET THE THINGS FIXEDS AND STILL GET THE CARDS TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE WE SHOULD BE PRAISING EVGA AND THERE WORKERS AND NOT HAVING BASHING THREADS PUTTING DOWN HOW THEY SHOULD DO THERE JOB RIGHT NOW MORE PEOPLE GAMERS ARE GETTING EVGA CARDS THAN ANY OTHER SUPPLIER 
 
 

jawalbert77
remember guys even thought evga has the best customer service the best warranty the best people working for the company and they do all this on there own some things take longer than others also remember jacob is constantly answering questions on twitter and helping with tech support there is only so much time in a day and everyoone still wants there gpu to get built tested and sent out CUT THEM A BREAK THINGS WILL GET THE THINGS FIXEDS AND STILL GET THE CARDS TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE WE SHOULD BE PRAISING EVGA AND THERE WORKERS AND NOT HAVING BASHING THREADS PUTTING DOWN HOW THEY SHOULD DO THERE JOB RIGHT NOW MORE PEOPLE GAMERS ARE GETTING EVGA CARDS THAN ANY OTHER SUPPLIER 
 
 

Why are you yelling? No one is bashing EVGA here, we are just stating facts on the state of the matter.

Can someone explain what this is? I have a FTW3 3080 TI hybrid on the way and do plan on spending a lot of time OCing. Is it true they won't put out the 450w XOC bios for the TI?

True