koroem
Finally decided to give this a try this morning. On the stock bios I was power limited around 448w according to hwinfo64, curiously though GPU-Z was reading 450-460w. To do this I ran a custom fire strike ultra at 4k and paused the demo within the first couple seconds when the character is walking through the smoke. This seemed like a decent way to get the gpu to hold the max power rating.
 
Switched to XOC bios and the same setup I'm now power limited around 480w (483w in GPUZ and 497.542w in hwinfo64). I'm not sure if there is a better app/benchmark/game to run to see if I can get closer to the 500w supposed cap, but I did at least seem to gain 30w from 450w to 480w. Something is working for me, now how do I test for those last 20w....
 
EDIT might also be worth mentioning I turned the GPU lighting off. Might save a few watts I figured. Left fans on auto.

Do you still have the GPU radiator fans plugged in to the GPU?  I think perhaps the card is budgeting those fans in to the power limit, whether or not they are plugged in & drawing power or not, which would explain why it's leaving headroom between the power limit & the numbers it's actually hitting... maybe?
I think plenty of folks on here are only hitting 450-470W, with this BIOS installed, and seeing a PerfCap reason of "PWR" despite the fact that it's supposed to be power limited at 500W.

Looks like the new Precision X1 updated my firmware...My card is the FTW 3 Ultra. Interesting... 
 

 
Could you please tell me where's the stock and OC position on the FTW3 - left stock and right OC?
 

Look on the backplate it will tell you

loving that bios for cyberpunk :D

So just for clarification: After installing my kit, I should flash the BIOS with the Hybrid one that was uploaded by Jacob? Just to ensure proper fan control and thermal readings and whatnot.
 

Dabadger84

koroem
Finally decided to give this a try this morning. On the stock bios I was power limited around 448w according to hwinfo64, curiously though GPU-Z was reading 450-460w. To do this I ran a custom fire strike ultra at 4k and paused the demo within the first couple seconds when the character is walking through the smoke. This seemed like a decent way to get the gpu to hold the max power rating.
 
Switched to XOC bios and the same setup I'm now power limited around 480w (483w in GPUZ and 497.542w in hwinfo64). I'm not sure if there is a better app/benchmark/game to run to see if I can get closer to the 500w supposed cap, but I did at least seem to gain 30w from 450w to 480w. Something is working for me, now how do I test for those last 20w....
 
EDIT might also be worth mentioning I turned the GPU lighting off. Might save a few watts I figured. Left fans on auto.

Do you still have the GPU radiator fans plugged in to the GPU?  I think perhaps the card is budgeting those fans in to the power limit, whether or not they are plugged in & drawing power or not, which would explain why it's leaving headroom between the power limit & the numbers it's actually hitting... maybe?
I think plenty of folks on here are only hitting 450-470W, with this BIOS installed, and seeing a PerfCap reason of "PWR" despite the fact that it's supposed to be power limited at 500W.

Well it is an air cooled card, so yes fans are still plugged into the gpu. Waterblock won't be here for a couple weeks until EK decides to ship them. Can test more on this theory later.

Mine is left OC right normal

vgerik1234
So just for clarification: After installing my kit, I should flash the BIOS with the Hybrid one that was uploaded by Jacob? Just to ensure proper fan control and thermal readings and whatnot.

No, that will not work, some others here have already tried it, the BIOS won't flash, it will say no compatible devices found. The Hybrid BIOS will not work on an FTW3 Ultra air-cooled card that's been converted to a Hybrid.  You would have to use the regular FTW3 Ultra XOC BIOS until such time as eVGA puts out a BIOS for the instance of people switching to the AIO via the Hybrid Kit upgrade - if they ever do.
 

M_Ersoni
Looks like the new Precision X1 updated my firmware...My card is the FTW 3 Ultra. Interesting... 

The update did a firmware upgrade for the regular FTW3 Ultra or do you have a Hybrid? I'll have to download it & see if it gives me an update as well.
 
Edit: Wowee they must've broken something with 1.1.3 cuz we already got 1.1.4 on X1.

Dabadger84

vgerik1234
So just for clarification: After installing my kit, I should flash the BIOS with the Hybrid one that was uploaded by Jacob? Just to ensure proper fan control and thermal readings and whatnot.

No, that will not work, some others here have already tried it, the BIOS won't flash, it will say no compatible devices found. The Hybrid BIOS will not work on an FTW3 Ultra air-cooled card that's been converted to a Hybrid.  You would have to use the regular FTW3 Ultra XOC BIOS until such time as eVGA puts out a BIOS for the instance of people switching to the AIO via the Hybrid Kit upgrade - if they ever do.
 

M_Ersoni
Looks like the new Precision X1 updated my firmware...My card is the FTW 3 Ultra. Interesting... 

The update did a firmware upgrade for the regular FTW3 Ultra or do you have a Hybrid? I'll have to download it & see if it gives me an update as well.
 
Edit: Wowee they must've broken something with 1.1.3 cuz we already got 1.1.4 on X1.

Jacob posted air FTW3 Ultra -> hybrid conversion BIOSes yesterday (a zip file with 2 files, one for normal and one for stock OC)
https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/3178114
 
And then said to install the hybrid XOC after flashing those.
https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/3178157
 
These two posts seem to make it clear for the first time, IMO, on how to convert an air FTW3 Ultra to a Hybrid and handle the BIOS properly.  I hope that this is the case and that nobody is running into issues with these steps...