menko2
It's so strange that in the same benchs and games the Strix pulled more watts than the Kingpin LN2 bios.

Even considering the temps with the Strix being at 75°C and the Kingpin at 50°C (fans at 80%).

I keep seeing the power limit in afterburner when the card is around 460-465W.
The Strix at around 480W.

Something is not quite there with this bios.

I agree. I also think EVGA should release a 600-650W bios that doesn't void warranty, I hit 520W power limit during some games (Quake II RTX comes to mind, among others).

great card, I can't wait

bmx045
 
 
MEM1 is 71c and MEM2 is 68.
 
I just ran time spy extreme and port royal stress test back to back without issues. Then I ran a couple port royal bench runs and when the benchmark ended to the result screen the pc rebooted, no artifact noted prior. This was with stock clocks and power limit at max.

Try running other benchmarks and see if these inconsistencies hold with the stock clocks.  Than test with downclocking and if the GPU stabilizes, I would get a hold of EVGA CS.

bmx045

alpharius194
I've definitely found these cards to be memory temp limited as far as stability goes, any time mine gets over 75C and I have an mem OC it will crash in cp2077 at some point. I dropped my daily memOC to +250 on stock voltage and it seems to never get above 70C. Try monitoring Mem2 temp, I use HWinfo64 so it saves the Max and average temps and this is what ive found to be my weak link. My question, though I don't think it's possible, but is there a way to get the classified tool to load a profile on start? I run my NV on auto for day to day use but my card acts up at some point if I have a memory overclock and forget to set FBV.

MEM1 is 71c and MEM2 is 68.
 
I just ran time spy extreme and port royal stress test back to back without issues. Then I ran a couple port royal bench runs and when the benchmark ended to the result screen the pc rebooted, no artifact noted prior. This was with stock clocks and power limit at max.

If the computer is rebooting/crashing at stock on the GPU, either something else is unstable, the PSU is spitting a fit, or the GPU needs to be RMAed, as Bauer suggested - that should never happen if everything is at stock, for any reason, unless you have an inadequate PSU.

menko2
It's so strange that in the same benchs and games the Strix pulled more watts than the Kingpin LN2 bios.

Even considering the temps with the Strix being at 75°C and the Kingpin at 50°C (fans at 80%).

I keep seeing the power limit in afterburner when the card is around 460-465W.
The Strix at around 480W.

Something is not quite there with this bios.

You can try enabling both NVVDD/MSSVVDD dipswitches and it should pull more wattage. I believe the 520W BIOS has some sort of limit when you reach 500W (maybe it reserves the extra 20W for the fans and pump). With the dipswitches on, it can easily pull 500-524W. 
 
Without dipswitches and card at stock with the OXC BIOS it can pull 640W in RTX Quake 2 so the 520W BIOS has some limitations.  

I see they only have 1 kingpin listed on eBay right now, I wonder if they got bought at the outrageous prices or sellers decided the high prices were not getting them sold.

sparetimepc
I see they only have 1 kingpin listed on eBay right now, I wonder if they got bought at the outrageous prices or sellers decided the high prices were not getting them sold.

All the drops from ~ 2 weeks ago that got scalped already sold, at least in the U.S. anyway, I know some stores in other regions are apparently selling them according to some folksO_o
 

 
Looks like they're going up, as will others, with the Lunar New Year & supply shortages combining to raises prices right before we get slapped with the full boar of the Tariff exemption expirations fully taking effect in April.

bmx045

Dabadger84
I don't even get artifacts that I've noticed while running Port Royal Stress Test or Time Spy Extreme Stress Test, on my OC/undervolt settings that I've tested to be "stable", definitely not at stock.  
What timestamps are the artifacts occurring at?  Are they consistent or do they change?  Is it flashing or triangles or what kind?

I just ran time spy extreme stress and pr stress back to back without problems. It seems to be very inconsistent. I'm wondering if an 850w PSU is enough for 5950x (PBO on, otherwise stock), kingpin w/ high power limits, 8 fans and cpu aio....

When I was looking into the 5950x (could only get my hands on a 5900x) I saw that quite a few people listed power draw with PBO to be above 300w and manual OC to be above 350w. Not saying its the issue on stock bios but to run the LN2 bios and the 5950x with PBO you may run into the limit of what your PSU can provide. Try backing the 5950x to stock and see what happens.
https://www.kitguru.net/c...%20for%20the%20system.

alpharius194

bmx045

Dabadger84
I don't even get artifacts that I've noticed while running Port Royal Stress Test or Time Spy Extreme Stress Test, on my OC/undervolt settings that I've tested to be "stable", definitely not at stock.  
What timestamps are the artifacts occurring at?  Are they consistent or do they change?  Is it flashing or triangles or what kind?

I just ran time spy extreme stress and pr stress back to back without problems. It seems to be very inconsistent. I'm wondering if an 850w PSU is enough for 5950x (PBO on, otherwise stock), kingpin w/ high power limits, 8 fans and cpu aio....

When I was looking into the 5950x (could only get my hands on a 5900x) I saw that quite a few people listed power draw with PBO to be above 300w and manual OC to be above 350w. Not saying its the issue on stock bios but to run the LN2 bios and the 5950x with PBO you may run into the limit of what your PSU can provide. Try backing the 5950x to stock and see what happens.
https://www.kitguru.net/c...%20for%20the%20system.

O_O 16 cores really do be like that I guess.  I'm not surprised it's power draw is that high though, that's a lot of cores, and a lot of very powerful cores, in that CPU's case.  The 5950x is a beast, I pity the AIO tryin' to keep that thing cool lol

So here's an update, got the new heatsinks in, haven't had a chance to game on them yet, will be doing that shortly, but they seem to be pretty good stuff.  They're light, but the base is fairly thin, so that makes sense.  I scratched one with a screw driver just to make sure they're real aluminum - pretty sure they are:
 
Before picture:
 

 
Surprising those did as much good as they did - a 4-6C drop on 2 of the 3 iCX Memory temperatures, and drops across the board on the other temps, ranging from 0.5C to around 3C lower.
 
Now, witness the awesome powa of 20 of the 20x20x10mm goodnesses:
 

 
The top & bottom-most rows are lined up with the areas the VRMs of the card are in - I'm unsure of whether or not there are thermal pads there because I haven't seen a picture of someone taking their card apart/taking the backplate off & actually finding pads there... I may end up taking mine off after I order some thermal pads, and if they're not there, I'll put some there, cuz why not...
 

 
Arranged them for pretty uniform airflow, I think... wishing I'd gotten one more pack so I didn't have to put some of the silver ones back on, but ah well!
 

 
120mm fan just sitting on them, blowing at around 1000RPM - I figure that's plenty - might change it to an EK Vardar later when I get some more just cuz though.
I'll report back with temp comparisons to no-heatsinks vs the original heatsink setup in pic 1, vs the new heatsink setup.
 
These also came with thermal tape preapplied: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BDKN3XV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 link for anyone interested in purchasing some, they're $12 for 10 of them.