I was able to achieve 14,500 on Port Royal with a stock day one Taiwan red lip card on the XOC 500W bios with overclocks of +140 Core and +1100 Mem. Power consumption peaked at 506W and averaged around 501W throughout the run. I also experienced no load balancing issues at all, the Pcie slot only drew around 75W and all three Pcie power connectors drew around 145W. 

Quick question for the group here, when trying to find the optimal overclock settings I'm using Precision X1 "VF Curve Tuner", and I simply cannot get the program to finish before my computer automatically reboots (crashes). I have an RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra and have tried both the original bioses and OC bioses (4 in total), but it simply does not work. Are others having the same problem? Have to be honest this is incredibly frustrating. My power supply is an AXi1600 Watt by Corsair (overkill I know). 

I got one of the first ftw ultras in my area.
Ive spent tons of time on this and never see more than 420-440w MAX regardless of bios or px1 version.
No matter settings are applied im getting 13700max in port royal. Card cant maintain a decent clock at all no matter the core or memory.
Also my computer is starting to restart when im gaming for 8~hours now. Mobo is telling me vga errors and other random codes. Weird stuff is happening lately. 
Hoping there can be a fix that doesn't require me to modify my card for correct performance. I didnt spend 2700$ for a card to set and forget.
 

 Is your card is really well place in the pcie slot, coz mine was verry hard to put till it sit at the bottom coz its really tight, ive never saw tight like that before.
 
 Also what is your psu ? is this a old psu ? what is your cpu, do you overclock all compoments ?

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Is there a way to extract the BIOS from the Update.exe or should I just wait for a real 3988 owner to put it up via GPU-Z?

Yes you can. You need a hex editor, like HxD. Start at byte offset 79A5E0, and select the following 999,424 bytes. Save that selection to a separate file. That is the BIOS file.
 
-Jeff
 
 

Doesn't appear to be a valid ROM file.

Which upgrade.exe did you use? Maybe it's a different offset. I tested two different ones and they both had the same offset, and they were both valid. I checked them with nvflash64.  Also, make sure when you select the 999,224 byes, that the amount is in Decimal and not Hex. The offset is hexadecimal, the length is decimal. If you can't get it working, it's probably best you wait.

I used the Update.exe in the front page for the FTW3 Hybrid OC. You earlier said it was 999,424 bytes. Now you are saying 999,224 bytes, which is it?

Are you sure the offset is 79A5E0 (7972320) bytes?

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 Is your card is really well place in the pcie slot, coz mine was verry hard to put till it sit at the bottom coz its really tight, ive never saw tight like that before.
 
 Also what is your psu ? is this a old psu ? what is your cpu, do you overclock all compoments ?

Ya I noticed this card was difficult to seat. I must have messed with it for over 2 hours. Took off the nvme cover below it, mobo armor and the mounting plate to make sure I wasnt binding on something. 
 
I have a few powersupplys. Even tried a brand new corsair hx1200. Have msi godlike, tried 3800x and 3900x and few sets of ram. 
Forgot to mention my pcie slot reaches 80-84w max every time I use my pc. 
 

Just flashed my FTW3 Hybrid with the new Uber XOC bios.  Maxed out PL.  Put it on Port Royal loop.  After 15 minutes, I have a Max spike of 445.6W.  Average of just 426.1W.  Big solid green "power limit" perfcap reason the whole time.  XC3 bios is still better.  It's a little upsetting that there's been no communication from EVGA regarding why it's not working, what they're doing to fix it, and whether it even can be fixed. 
 
Edit:  Checked PCIe slot power usage on the XOC bios which is limited to about 430W~ power limit on my card and many others, and it uses 75W.  On the XC3 bios which gives I think somewhere between 480W-520W power limit, it only pulls 65W from the PCIe slot. Haven't been able to approximate the power draw because one pin is pulling 150-165W, one is *reporting* up to 75W but could actually be pulling double that.  Third pin is just not reporting anything but likely pulling same as the first connector at 150-165W. 

 You didnt talk about ur overclocking procedure, but i can tell you, like actually i oc my ftw3 ultra at +115 and + 800 and if i apply +30 gpu core voltage, many games will run fine but others will crash sometimes for sure and if i apply +60 most of my game will run fine but 2 or 3 game will still crash after 10 or 30 minye, even hours after i start play and if i apply full +100 i have no crash with alllll games.
 
 If you oc ur cpu ram it can be the issue, even it pass stupid stability test, if your cpu cash is oc this can be also an issue.
Try disable oc on cpu and memory if you still have this issue. Sometime it can be a bad cable, pci cable, power cpu cable and is your psu is plug direct in the wall socket or if you plug it on cheap power bar and while your pc running you touch the psu plug and it feel hot. So many thing can happen, sometime its weird and really hard to catch a problem. Did you try gaming hours on another card and all is fine ? Is this problem begun with ur new graphik card ?

TheHyperMatrix hi :), what is the card in your hand now, coz you change your graphik card like i change t-shirt hehehe. I not sure if you have an hydro copper or a ftw3 ultra with hybrid kit or another one ?