I’m interested in this as well. I know GN and Frame Chasers did these mods. Might have to look at what they used.

BiscottoMan
Guys what would be the best resistors setup to use on a 3090 ftw3 ultra shunt mod?

What is the takeaway from this thread? There are so many pages that it would take forever to find meaningful posts.
 
Are EVGA looking into this or do they not consider this an issue?

I remember Jacob said they were looking into the problems a couple months ago. No details tho.
I’m remaining hopefully they will have some positive news for us soon.

Yeah.. would be nice for everyone's sake I think. It's weird that the XC3 (a 2 PCIE power connector) bios allows the card to pull more power than the actual 3 pin XOC bios.
 
I have the ASUS ROG Thor 1200W PSU and it has a built in wattmeter in the side, as well as having one in the wall. XC3 bios seems to allow the card to draw about 50 more watts which would make it ~500w. With that in mind I'm hoping it's just a bios fix that they need to roll out. It's weird that the first card I had that died (2014 serial) to the red light issues took the 500w bios no problem but this new one (china 2012) really doesn't seem to like to exceed 100% PT and if it does it's only for a brief second before it comes flying back to about 420w.

krs360
Yeah.. would be nice for everyone's sake I think. It's weird that the XC3 (a 2 PCIE power connector) bios allows the card to pull more power than the actual 3 pin XOC bios.
 
I have the ASUS ROG Thor 1200W PSU and it has a built in wattmeter in the side, as well as having one in the wall. XC3 bios seems to allow the card to draw about 50 more watts which would make it ~500w. With that in mind I'm hoping it's just a bios fix that they need to roll out. It's weird that the first card I had that died (2014 serial) to the red light issues took the 500w bios no problem but this new one (china 2012) really doesn't seem to like to exceed 100% PT and if it does it's only for a brief second before it comes flying back to about 420w.

I'm guessing that it is an issue with the earlier cards. Mine arrived yesterday, installed 500w bios right away, and it hits nearly 500W just running regular Timespy. Maxes out at 502w according to GPUz while gaming.

Clayman31

krs360
Yeah.. would be nice for everyone's sake I think. It's weird that the XC3 (a 2 PCIE power connector) bios allows the card to pull more power than the actual 3 pin XOC bios.
 
I have the ASUS ROG Thor 1200W PSU and it has a built in wattmeter in the side, as well as having one in the wall. XC3 bios seems to allow the card to draw about 50 more watts which would make it ~500w. With that in mind I'm hoping it's just a bios fix that they need to roll out. It's weird that the first card I had that died (2014 serial) to the red light issues took the 500w bios no problem but this new one (china 2012) really doesn't seem to like to exceed 100% PT and if it does it's only for a brief second before it comes flying back to about 420w.

I'm guessing that it is an issue with the earlier cards. Mine arrived yesterday, installed 500w bios right away, and it hits nearly 500W just running regular Timespy. Maxes out at 502w according to GPUz while gaming.

I don't think the card I got was an early one as it has the black lips. Does it sustain around 500 or does it peak and then fall to low 400s and then repeat this process over and over?

wknowles
I’m interested in this as well. I know GN and Frame Chasers did these mods. Might have to look at what they used.

I follow frame chasers too and at the moment i'm very doubtful about getting an ftw3 ultra or not. I'm scared about the possibility to get power limited even shunting the card since the auto power balancing it has; i also know that you have to be really careful about not heavy shunting the pcie connector (like you could have done on an Asus card for example) beacause at stock i already reaches 80-85w so it's really easy to go past over the 120w blowing up the 10A fuse. As a matter of fact i'm looking for some advice by the owners of this GPU, who has shunted It, about the best possibile setup to run under watercooling

krs360

Clayman31

krs360
Yeah.. would be nice for everyone's sake I think. It's weird that the XC3 (a 2 PCIE power connector) bios allows the card to pull more power than the actual 3 pin XOC bios.
 
I have the ASUS ROG Thor 1200W PSU and it has a built in wattmeter in the side, as well as having one in the wall. XC3 bios seems to allow the card to draw about 50 more watts which would make it ~500w. With that in mind I'm hoping it's just a bios fix that they need to roll out. It's weird that the first card I had that died (2014 serial) to the red light issues took the 500w bios no problem but this new one (china 2012) really doesn't seem to like to exceed 100% PT and if it does it's only for a brief second before it comes flying back to about 420w.

I'm guessing that it is an issue with the earlier cards. Mine arrived yesterday, installed 500w bios right away, and it hits nearly 500W just running regular Timespy. Maxes out at 502w according to GPUz while gaming.

I don't think the card I got was an early one as it has the black lips. Does it sustain around 500 or does it peak and then fall to low 400s and then repeat this process over and over?

Good question! I will do some testing and get back to you after work.

Ok I did some quick testing. It definitely does not stay at 500w, but it doesn't seem to "bounce" either. Seems to drift between 460 and 492 in Timespy depending on how demanding the scene is.

From what I’ve read, I wouldn’t trust those readings. A lot of people on here were talking about how they were supposably drawing 500 but in reality it was like 460 when they measured it from the wall or psu.