jayrwar

rain2_usa

jayrwar

Vipilicious

I asked at IgorsLab regarding this topic:

Result/Anwser: "Caps are there on the one hand to filter the high frequency components and on the other hand as a buffer to prevent voltage drops. SP or POS CAPs are more shock-resistant and temperature-stable, but fail because of the high frequencies. The FE's 4 + 2 mix is perfect." (Source IgorsLab Forum)

Link, please?

See if that semi-link works.  Direct from Igor himself. 
www.igorslab.de/community/threads/was-wirklich-hinter-den-abstürzen-und-instabilitäten-der-geforce-rtx-3080-und-rtx-3090-stecken-könnte-investigativ.3217/page-7#post-75137

Until someone reviews an FTW3 Ultra 3080 and I see the clocks, temps, and fan speeds won't commit to it.

Gamers nexus has already done an OC video with the 6 poscap ftw3 and it was the best overclocker out of the 3 cards he had

Thank you for the very fast update. Jacob
 

so how does this work for someone who got the xc3 ultra gaming day one are the cards good or would they need to be sent back?
 

Based on my interpretation Buildzoid seemed to prefer the MLCC's, I have a very high degree of respect for his opinions. Now... that is not at all to say that the 4x/2x orientation is "bad" or in any way insufficient, especially if using the high-quality, 47uF "0805" MLCC's he referred to, like Nvidia does on the FE.

jayrwar

rain2_usa

jayrwar

Vipilicious

I asked at IgorsLab regarding this topic:

Result/Anwser: "Caps are there on the one hand to filter the high frequency components and on the other hand as a buffer to prevent voltage drops. SP or POS CAPs are more shock-resistant and temperature-stable, but fail because of the high frequencies. The FE's 4 + 2 mix is perfect." (Source IgorsLab Forum)

Link, please?

See if that semi-link works.  Direct from Igor himself. 
www.igorslab.de/community/threads/was-wirklich-hinter-den-abstürzen-und-instabilitäten-der-geforce-rtx-3080-und-rtx-3090-stecken-könnte-investigativ.3217/page-7#post-75137

Until someone reviews an FTW3 Ultra 3080 and I see the clocks, temps, and fan speeds won't commit to it.

GamersNexus did OC an FTW3 to something like 2.3Ghz. That was ofc on LN2 so temps weren't an issue. But his had 6 POSCAPS and no MLCC, as it was preproduction unit. On his stream earlier today he showed another FTW3 with this time 4 POSCAPS and 2 MLCC while running on air with 2 additional fans blowing air to / from the card, he got some pretty substantial scores. Ofc we'll need to wait a full testing with temps, all sorts of games / benchmarks etc but so far, it doesn't seem like regular customers should have ANY issues with FTW3 especially since it seems to apply the same numbers of components than the FE. 

Msi flagship card vs Asus , even Steve says the power delivery is better on the Asus.

xhdreactionzx

jayrwar

rain2_usa

jayrwar

Vipilicious

I asked at IgorsLab regarding this topic:

Result/Anwser: "Caps are there on the one hand to filter the high frequency components and on the other hand as a buffer to prevent voltage drops. SP or POS CAPs are more shock-resistant and temperature-stable, but fail because of the high frequencies. The FE's 4 + 2 mix is perfect." (Source IgorsLab Forum)

Link, please?

See if that semi-link works.  Direct from Igor himself. 
www.igorslab.de/community/threads/was-wirklich-hinter-den-abstürzen-und-instabilitäten-der-geforce-rtx-3080-und-rtx-3090-stecken-könnte-investigativ.3217/page-7#post-75137

Until someone reviews an FTW3 Ultra 3080 and I see the clocks, temps, and fan speeds won't commit to it.

Gamers nexus has already done an OC video with the 6 poscap ftw3 and it was the best overclocker out of the 3 cards he had

With LN (Liquid Nitrogen)?? I need a regular user review with the standard things like OC, temps, benchmarks, fan noise and speed. If it does 2Ghz stable for hours with reasonable temps and fan noise I'll take it.

Thanks for the clarification Jacob!

ghastlyone
Clear your browser cookies and site info. I had to do this on Firefox and the site started loading for me again. Only happened right at launch for some reason.

Thank you! Yes, it looks like EVGA changed its authe cookies and broke something. Worked after I nuked the EVGA cookies. Had to do the same on all my devices/systems. 
 

Mattler
I feel like EVGA kinda cheaped out. ASUS did things right. 

 
And yet, if you look at the original Newegg photos, the ASUS 3080 TUF and Strix both are shown with 6 poscaps too.  The issue appears to have blindsided practically every single AIB. 

Thanks for the official update as the news is breaking in the wild, much appreciated.