speedysloth

justintylerwright
Ive never seen anything as wild as blaming custom cables for bad card design.

Its entirely possible that the cables could be at fault. People get too comfortable using non-OEM cables and extensions without realizing they could play a factor in poor/bad power. Not saying that is the cause here but as we don't have access to OP's PC, all we can do is to make possible suggestions and rule things out.

HeavyHemi

justintylerwright

HeavyHemi

justintylerwright

kevinc313

justintylerwright

kevinc313

justintylerwright
Ive never seen anything as wild as blaming custom cables for bad card design.

Welcome to the EVGA forums where GPU troubleshooting lives.  People have had problems with custom cables before causing bad connection.  Dodgy no-name contacts, marginal crimps, poor wire.  Trust me man, I have good amount of experience with electronics cables, probably more than 99.9% of the people here.

Do you have any company recommendations? Corsair hasnt had 8 pin cables in stock for almost 7 months and im looking to replace my pig tailed cables. I ordered custom cables from Mainframe but the order will not be fulfilled for some weeks.

Looks like newegg has sets of the Corsair made fancy pants individually sleeved cables, not sure they are what you are looking for.  But Corsair's own cables are the only ones I would use.
 
Edit: This appears in stock..?
 
https://www.corsair.com/u...e-4-Gen-4/p/CP-8920243
 
Edit 2: Found it, I think. $4.69 each, nice.
 
https://www.provantage.co...p-8920111~7CRSC00W.htm

You seem like a good person to ask, how completely necessary are inline capacitor cables?

They are not needed, period.

How reputable are CableMod cables? They have white cables readily available that ive been waiting for corsair to restock for some time.

They are a quality supplier. Just triple check you get compatible cables. All PSU outputs are not wired the same.

Fieldgoal00
I was one of the guys who's 3090 FTW3 Ultra was bricked by New World on Tuesday night (7/20/21). I called EVGA first thing Thursday morning, setup the cross-ship RMA, put a hold on my credit card for almost $3900 in order to get the card as soon as possible. They shipped the card out next day air and I received it Thursday morning. I was out of town until this afternoon so when I got home I was anxious to open up my "refurbished" 3090. To my surprise it was a completely BNIB 3090 FTW3 Ultra card. I opened it up, and placed it into my computer. 
 
I turned my CPU on and everything seemed perfect, the card was running everything looked good. The only issue was that my RGB case fans were all not lit up, so I opened up Corsair's iCue software and set them all up to be lit up and that was that. 
 
I decided to shut down my PC and then restart it to make sure the case fan lighting settings were saved. As soon as the computer started up everything seemed normal until I noticed that the 3090 was not lit up at all except for a single red led on the board itself directly above where the power connectors are. To be exact, there are 4 LEDs if you're looking at the card installed from left to right. The light that is on is the 2nd light in the series. 
 
Keep in mind that I simply seated the new 3090 and plugged in my 3-8pin connectors that were plugged into my other 3090. No other changes were made.
 
I guess my luck just ran out and I'll be on the phone with EVGA's Tech Support once again for another RMA.
 
Does anyone know exactly what each light means? 

Bruno747
Why did evga charge you nearly twice the price of a 3090 as collateral? They are supposed to charge you the same price as the purchase cost I thought?

You already paid for one so you should only be providing collateral for the extra they are sending out.

Guess that's their way of avoiding scalpers calling in RMAs to get cards?

tyranus7

Bruno747
Why did evga charge you nearly twice the price of a 3090 as collateral? They are supposed to charge you the same price as the purchase cost I thought?

You already paid for one so you should only be providing collateral for the extra they are sending out.

Guess that's their way of avoiding scalpers calling in RMAs to get cards?

Quite likely. Otherwise lot's of people would call for fake cross-shipping RMA and get 30-series for MSRP scamming EVGA's queue system

KeithW19
This is my worst fear. I also had my card die and I only ever played it after the "fix" was released by Amazon. I was getting weird crashes at first and even messaged EVGA asking them if my card is affected by this issue. Oh and my crash symptoms were that all my monitors would disconnect, the audio would go crazy (similar to a full PC lock) and my GPU fans would spin up to 100%. At the time I immediately unplugged my PC and plugged it back in and it booted up. They said my card was not affected because my PC would boot back up after the crash. So at that point I figured one of 2 things:
 
1 - Its a weird crashing bug in a beta game and I'd have to put up with it
2 - If my hardware is the issue then avoiding a game to avoid having that issue exposed seems silly. Whose to say the next game that comes out wont cause it to fail?
 
So given those 2 options, I reformatted my PC back to a fresh install of Windows and then last night tried out the game again. The first run of the game it did the exact same crash as before immediately. I cant even recall if the loading screen had shown yet. I also had Precision X1 up and running on one of my other monitors so I could monitor Temp/Core/Mem/Power. So at this point I'm thinking it must be #1. I reboot my PC and try again. This time I get into the game and am running to ships to collect the logs/reports... X1 shows not only are all my numbers good, this game seems to barely be taxing my GPU at all. I'm at about 60C temp and like 80% power draw.
 
Then I get the crash again. Same one as before. So I hold down the power button and then turn my PC back on. So now I'm in troubleshooting mode. What is making the game unstable? I figured maybe I'll try it in Windowed mode to see if that changes anything (there almost seemed to be a correlation between alt-tabbing and the crashes). I was doing a work thing at the time as well and didnt want to crash and have to open up all my windows again so I literally went into the game, changed it to windowed mode and then exited to desktop. The game closed and I saw my desktop for a couple seconds and then my PC powered off completely. Upon inspecting my PC all the LED lights on my motherboard were yellow (Gigabyte AORUS X470 Gaming Wifi 7) and the power button would not do anything. So I unplugged my PC and waited a bit. When I plugged it back in, the lights all came on and immediately there was a small "POP" noise. Red light on card. Card dead.
 
So now I'm thinking ok well at least I know my card WAS faulty and that I'll get replacement that fixes the issue. Then I find this post and I am sooo disappointed. Either someone knows exactly what is happening and isnt saying or I'm going to feel like I'm playing Russian Roulette with my super expensive GPU every time I play a new game....

kevinc313
 
 
Not all memory loads are created equal.

kevinc313
So is anyone going to monitor VRAM JUNCTION TEMP in HWiNFO?  Because that ain't the same as what's reported in X1.

Master_Yoda

gsrcrxsi
 
yes, this is their policy now. I had to put $3000 collateral for my 3080Ti HC cross-ship RMA

Jesus, imagine saving for your dream card, having it die, then not being able to RMA since you don't have $3000 for collateral.
Or do they do the "ship the card to us first, we will send you a working one back when we get it" ?