"Dear Customer,
Thank you for reaching out EVGA support team.
Please use the Precision X1 to manual adjust the power to the maximun on TARGET, followed by screenshot the Percision, and send to us.
Regarding to your description, the 500W BIOS on the forum is the maximun Watts. However, according to EVGA forum, "EVGA does not guarantee any performance increase or overclock while using this BIOS update." The performance is already reached to our promised performance, it is related to the quality of the card itself if it could reach to the maximun 500W.
Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,
EVGA"
EVGA pretty much just told me the quality of their cards are ****. Max 430w on the 500w Bios on Port Royal.
So much for this amazing EVGA customer service i heard about can't wait to have this crap out of my PC.