Get some of the money back if you can. The 3090 price / performance ratio is already bad. You will be just as well off with the FE along a little cash back in your pocket. Also if you do it now you can still get a premium for the  FTW3 Ultra. 

Fe for sure. The ftw3 ultra too unreliable.

The extended warranty is not transferable, but the base warranty is.

The FTW3 Ultra has been kinda finicky. I had the black screen shutting down problem when I first got it. I changed out my PSU and it occurs a lot less often. Then there is the random black screen problem for no reason. It would black screen and then come back normal. Besides that there is the problem with the 500Watt BIOS which never use that much
 
Never had this much trouble with the 2080Ti from EVGA. Looks like selling the FTW3 Ultra might be the option to go.
 
Thanks guys!

FE - since it's the best power design from the board maker . IMHO

No issues for me as well with 3090 FTW 3 ultra and seen plenty of dead FE complaints in internet as well with horrible RMA flow

The first ftw3 I had crashed every 10-30 mins, temps maxed out at 73 while gaming so no issues there. Waiting on my rma to come in saturday and see how it goes.

STR8_AN94BALLER
 
IF THIS POST IS EDITED / DELETED IT MEANS DENIAL BY CENSORSHIP
 
 

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 ftw3 pcb is very downgraded in terms of power filtering and has messed up power balancing that jacobF keeps denying
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuimvlNraLM
 
 
 
this information regarding the messed up power balancing obtained from GG discord where EVGA can't censor us
 
No other bios helps since they all have the same pci-slot power limit.
 
I dont think they can, Since the cards are hitting 78W on the slot and 121W on the plugs.
 
Messed up big time using analog drivers on it so cant change the balance without changing resistors. All the high leakage FTW not reaching 500W because they hit the slot draw limit first.
 
You can look in the bios editor and theres a power limit for each input. With digital vrm drivers they can make it pull more power from the other plugs once 1 input hits its limit. Analog ones you cant since the resistor config is only set once at factory which defines how much power is draw from each input.
 
I couldnt work out what the exact split is between inputs. But as a example. on a 2 plug card you'd have 28% power from slot and 36% from each plug.
 
On a analog vrm driver. That balance is set in stone with the resistor config, On a digital one its controlled over the i2c and feedback.
 
So you get a card that has a high leakage in the SM of the die. its going to pull more power over the slot than a low leakage one. So it hits that slot power limit and cant re-balance it self for more power from plugs.
 
Then you never reach the total board power limit.
 
The bios is 78/144/144 But in real usage the card hits 78/121/121
 
1kw bios has 98W slot limit. so 20W higher slot power, roughly 20% 500W BIOS is what? 78/140/140/140 so on XOC BIOS if 78 can go up 20%, then 140 can too? 140 x 1.2 = 168 x 3 = 504 + 98W = 600W~~

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Recently acquired a 3090FE through BestBuy at MSRP. I already have a 3090FTW3 Ultra since last September. The FTW3 ultra is nice but I still have occasional black screen issues (first batch of card). Since all the 3090 perform more or less the same, should I keep the 3090FE or the FTW3 Ultra?

If the performance is more or less the same, it's all down to the aesthetic. Which one please your eyes?