USALion
 
No, see, when I spend $800 on a product, I expect it to work fine the first time. Thanks.

Unfortunately, that is not a guarantee.  No matter what you buy, no matter from who, it is impossible to be certain that there are zero defects.  You are new to this world?

EVGATech_LeeM

jayrwar

You will have overclock stability issues on the FTW3 Ultra on anything over the advertised boost clock speed of 1815Mhz.

Like this guy?  
 
https://forums.evga.com/3090FTW-Ultra2085-core-on-air-m3097166.aspx

Amazing OC! Will be interesting to see what happens when he starts throwing games at it...where the non-static power draw starts generating transients.
 
At the end of the day...I'm not super concerned with this and still looking forward to the FTW3 hybrid...but it gives me time to monitor all this...  I'm guessing most crashing that is being reported is simply driver level...as is normal for new GPU launches....or bad PSUs, user connection error for PCIE cables, unstable overclocks, failure to DDU previous drivers...etc.

Was debating on buying the gaming trio from msi or ftw3 ultra. Now I’m most certainly keeping a strong eye on the FTW3. Wish they go back in stock soon. 

What am I missing? All pictures of the XC only have 1 and 5 or the pictures are not correct and should be 4 and 2?

Best Buy shows the STRIX having 6 pcaps but I bet it’s not accurate.

I do not trust him 2 is enough. Asus tuf I trust but not Jacob and sales marketing.

Nvidia FE has 2x220 and 2x470 spcap but Evga ftw3 ultra has 4x220 on their board design. Is that make any sense?

Memsar
Nvidia FE has 2x220 and 2x470 spcap/popscap but Evga ftw3 ultra has 4x220 on their board design. Is that make any sense?

where do you see this? those are fairly low SPcaps from what i've seen if that's true.  I really hope some testing is done here, because these numbers seem really low, but idk if that means anything or is perhaps even preferable? or is it simply a cost saving measure

Incredible like all people is speaking of a nonsense.
No POSCAP in no one card.
It's like blaming potatoes when it comes to tomatoes.
Parrot retarded people who generalize and talk without knowing in the least what they are talking about.
The problem also occurs on the TUF which have no one SP-CAP on the back of the die but only MLCC  so the problem is elsewhere.
An architectural limit of Ampere is therefore possible, or the 8nm production process that sucks more than it already seemed.

Memsar
Nvidia FE has 2x220 and 2x470 spcap but Evga ftw3 ultra has 4x220 on their board design. Is that make any sense?

It's ok MSI VENTUS has 6 Sp Caps 220 ;)

https://plecom.imgix.net/...&w=1000&h=1000

Memsar
https://www.evga.com/prod...aspx?pn=10G-P5-3897-KR

There is a photo in this link and if you zoom the back plate you can see the numbers

XC3

 
SP-CAP:

 
POSCAP:

 
So all are SP-CAP or POSCAP?
 
 

in fact ... it has been sustained for days.

michalvan89
i dont get why there is so much complains about the SP-CAPs used instead of MLCCs. GPUs are working great with stated frequencies, anything above is just overclocking (not counting gpu boost algorithm which can be capped and is just nice bonus) where noone can guarantee stability. Ppl should just learn how to enjoy things, instead of complaining about nonsense. Fix is easy, just cap the maximum frequency bellow 2GHz.

You see the boost clock as a bonus, me and others see it as a feature. Reviews and benchmarks posted online "for marketing" where done with it enabled. Doing a VBIOS update to lower it means false advertising in my books. (I know EVGA said nothing about a VBIOS to lower the boost, in fact, Jacob denied them having any plans to do this which is why I am still sticking with EVGA)
 
Also I personally buy EVGA to overclock. I buy EVGA because they offer decent coolers. If I didn't care about overclocking I'd just go FE. I have had an EVGA 750 Ti, EVGA 1080 Ti, and EVGA 2080 Super and I have overclocked each and everyone of them. None of them had issues maintaining the factory OC. I don't expect the 3090 FTW3 to be any different. 
 
I personally don't care what capacitors a card has. I never knew a thing about capacitors and I never expected to even hear about them. I don't care what EVGA uses as long as the card works as advertised, and is not worse than others in the same price range. 

michalvan89

MRizk

michalvan89
i dont get why there is so much complains about the SP-CAPs used instead of MLCCs. GPUs are working great with stated frequencies, anything above is just overclocking (not counting gpu boost algorithm which can be capped and is just nice bonus) where noone can guarantee stability. Ppl should just learn how to enjoy things, instead of complaining about nonsense. Fix is easy, just cap the maximum frequency bellow 2GHz.

You see the boost clock as a bonus, me and others see it as a feature. Reviews and benchmarks posted online "for marketing" where done with it enabled. Doing a VBIOS update to lower it means false advertising in my books. (I know EVGA said nothing about a VBIOS to lower the boost, in fact, Jacob denied them having any plans to do this which is why I am still sticking with EVGA)
 
Also I personally buy EVGA to overclock. I buy EVGA because they offer decent coolers. If I didn't care about overclocking I'd just go FE. I have had an EVGA 750 Ti, EVGA 1080 Ti, and EVGA 2080 Super and I have overclocked each and everyone of them. None of them had issues maintaining the factory OC. I don't expect the 3090 FTW3 to be any different. 
 
I personally don't care what capacitors a card has. I never knew a thing about capacitors and I never expected to even hear about them. I don't care what EVGA uses as long as the card works as advertised, and is not worse than others in the same price range. 

well when you buy car, and go to do some chiptuning or any modification and it will go wrong i doubt that you will complain about it not being good to manufacturer of car :) ... all i can see cards working fine, differences are like 1-2 fps when capped so why even bother. EVGA has good approach and fixed this in FTW3 series. So i see no problem here. Boost clocks are about possible headroom anyway, if there is enough power and temp to be spent. If i want to OC then i have to count on fact that there is some max spot where i cannot go over.
Not here to argue, just surprised that ppl have enough balls to even highlight such thing :)

I would overclock my car if it was compatible with EVGA Precision X1.