bboy1234
Why would they need to report anything?  Its fixed on the production units.  Im sure they ran into other issues that where fixed prior to production do you expect EVGA to tells us each of those??  Love EVGA first class all the way. 

 
Sometimes, silence is golden. Sometimes it's just bad for business.
 
 

tayback longlegFor real. Hysterics all around with this 30 series launch, good lord.

 
 
i noticed that people crying the most are those who are too poor to buy the card in the first place. i came across a bunch of these people on an unmoderated "tech" website i'd rather not name (they don't deserve the exposure). i have a 3090, i'm not worried. 3 year manufacturer warranty + 1 year amex warranty. i also wasn't worried about the 2080ti failures. i got an EVGA 2080ti on release day. despite the same morons foaming at the mouth and screaming that the sky is falling, i never had a single issue after nearly 2 years of use. 

Hardware Unboxed have issues on FE and ASUS TUF editions which do have proper capacitors. So the issue seems to be related not only with the capacitors.
 

 
Any comment on this?
 
 

EVGA_JacobF

Hi all,
 
Recently there has been some discussion about the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 series.
 
During our mass production QC testing we discovered a full 6 POSCAPs solution cannot pass the real world applications testing. It took almost a week of R&D effort to find the cause and reduce the POSCAPs to 4 and add 20 MLCC caps prior to shipping production boards, this is why the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 series was delayed at launch. There were no 6 POSCAP production EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 boards shipped.
 
But, due to the time crunch, some of the reviewers were sent a pre-production version with 6 POSCAP’s, we are working with those reviewers directly to replace their boards with production versions.
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 XC3 series with 5 POSCAPs + 10 MLCC solution is matched with the XC3 spec without issues.
 
Also note that we have updated the product pictures at EVGA.com to reflect the production components that shipped to gamers and enthusiasts since day 1 of product launch.
Once you receive the card you can compare for yourself, EVGA stands behind its products!
 
Thanks
EVGA
 

 

Well, THIS is huge! Thank You Jacob for that clear and concise explanation!

Looks AIB's are now changing their PCB's to match that 2+4 configuration as seen on Founders Edition.
 
Rush launch just to get solid market share. Set too high and way too aggressive boost clocks, send some cherrypicked samples to reviewers, so they can show some high numbers. Start the mass production with issues and then downgrade clocks/boost via new drivers, PCB changes or/and BIOS updates, that will cripple the benchmarks after all the reviews have already been made.
 
Looks like a perfect launch to me
 

I had a chance to get the Asus and Gigabyte cards but I chose to wait for the 3080 FTW3. Hope I can get my hand on one soon.

I hope that we can still expect a ramp up in production for October / November.

solomonshvi noticed that people crying the most are those who are too poor to buy the card in the first place.

I don't think a more elitist, douche-bag thing has ever been said.

You sound like a wonderful human being.

xenolith
It's too bad EVGA doesn't make AMD video cards. I wouldn't hesitate getting a Big Navi made by EVGA (if the leaks are as good as they say.)

Amen ...

Thanks for the info! Hope to get one of these cards soon. :D

It seems like the latest Nvidia drivers addressed this issue? Unfortunately they did it in a way that may have affected people who were not experiencing the issue at all. Not a terrible thing if the cards were simply boosting too high but certain bad for optics on Nvidia's end lol.

The crashes are more frequency based then caps based. At least from what I’ve been reading Up on seems when they are pushed close to 2k or beyond is when the crashes start. Guessing the 8nm Samsung is already at its limits in base form. 

Interesting video. Still, going from +70 to +100 is substantial for such a minor change in hardware, that was somewhere within 50-100Mhz of additional stability. THG got +115 with the all-MLCC ASUS 3080 TUF card. Instead of paying for a factory OC, paying for extra MLCC caps would appear to have some value...

I bought a 3080 xc3 gaming and i saw several teates with 5 pops and 10 mlcc not working... why evga keep this project? Why they do not only did like asus did? To change all to high quality ones? We trust in evga, and we buy this brand because has the most quality itens on market. Please, at the minimum, do the same as you did for the ftw3... use the samw project as the founders edition woth 20 mlcc.