Guys, it’s like any other components on these boards. There are optimum values that give the best noise suppression, surge delivery capability, or whatever. Even though the boards look similar or even identical, you really can’t compare the cap compliment of one kind of board to another, or one manufacturer to another unless everything is truly the same. We already know at least some values and even component types are different on the different boards. The boards are a system and everything works together to provide a running board.
What is important is each manufacturer discovered or was alerted to the issue and took steps to correct it. We can only assume that each manufacturer has or is changing the capacitor combinations on their boards to address the issue.
That one board has 5 polys or 4 or none doesn’t really matter. They are *presumably* now optimized for the conditions on that particular board model. It’s very tempting to think the ASUS boards with 6 sets of MLCCs are better but that may or may not be true. What ultimately matters is how clean the power is for the GPU and we don’t know without proper measurements which is truly better.
Jacob said that they had already addressed this on various models that have been being sold and they held back the 3080 FTW3 to rework them so those will be proper too when they go out for sale.
It was potentially an issue but it’s not now. If you get EVGA boards, the whole issue is already addressed. The only ones who got the “defective” boards were reviewers - not the retail channel - and EVGA is replacing those.
I really wouldn’t worry about it now. I’m not. I still want the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra and will still be buying one just as soon as I can get a cart to actually check out.