I think my card is fine but I don't want to put this BIOS on it because of the plethora of issues people are having in this thread. My card easily hits its original 450W limit fine in benchmarks and heavy games and my PCI-e slot usually hovers around 77W. I would just feel better about EVGA acknowledging some of these issues and providing an new BIOS at some point soon. My card already overclocks pretty well (+140 core / +550 mem) so I really want to see what it can do with the limit raised. I suppose I couldn't hurt anything trying it but I'd rather wait for a new version.

will999999999
I think my card is fine but I don't want to put this BIOS on it because of the plethora of issues people are having in this thread. My card easily hits its original 450W limit fine in benchmarks and heavy games and my PCI-e slot usually hovers around 77W. I would just feel better about EVGA acknowledging some of these issues and providing an new BIOS at some point soon. My card already overclocks pretty well (+140 core / +550 mem) so I really want to see what it can do with the limit raised. I suppose I couldn't hurt anything trying it but I'd rather wait for a new version.

Air cooler is not enough for 500W, you will get nothing more out of it without exotic cooling.
with the Air cooler I suggest undervolting the GPU for better Overclocks , decreased power draw, and lower temperatures.
If you don't mind me asking what is you core clock in game/benchmark while hitting 450w power draw and what is the temperature.

03GLI

will999999999
I think my card is fine but I don't want to put this BIOS on it because of the plethora of issues people are having in this thread. My card easily hits its original 450W limit fine in benchmarks and heavy games and my PCI-e slot usually hovers around 77W. I would just feel better about EVGA acknowledging some of these issues and providing an new BIOS at some point soon. My card already overclocks pretty well (+140 core / +550 mem) so I really want to see what it can do with the limit raised. I suppose I couldn't hurt anything trying it but I'd rather wait for a new version.

Air cooler is not enough for 500W, you will get nothing more out of it without exotic cooling.
with the Air cooler I suggest undervolting the GPU for better Overclocks , decreased power draw, and lower temperatures.
If you don't mind me asking what is you core clock in game/benchmark while hitting 450w power draw and what is the temperature.

Not true at all... Air cooled is fine with 500w. I saw a 500 point increase with this bios when I was on air. Temps raised to 70c but well under what I was comfortable with. Will you see a much higher score on water? Yes see my post above when I went to the hybrid cooler. 

krs360
XOC beta bios thread about a problem that seems to impact a huge number of people and we've got these guys measuring e-dicks. cmon, get a grip.

This thread is to share results of a working bios not just to **** about hardware related issues with the bios.... Post away

Notchy44

03GLI

will999999999
I think my card is fine but I don't want to put this BIOS on it because of the plethora of issues people are having in this thread. My card easily hits its original 450W limit fine in benchmarks and heavy games and my PCI-e slot usually hovers around 77W. I would just feel better about EVGA acknowledging some of these issues and providing an new BIOS at some point soon. My card already overclocks pretty well (+140 core / +550 mem) so I really want to see what it can do with the limit raised. I suppose I couldn't hurt anything trying it but I'd rather wait for a new version.

Air cooler is not enough for 500W, you will get nothing more out of it without exotic cooling.
with the Air cooler I suggest undervolting the GPU for better Overclocks , decreased power draw, and lower temperatures.
If you don't mind me asking what is you core clock in game/benchmark while hitting 450w power draw and what is the temperature.

Not true at all... Air cooled is fine with 500w. I saw a 500 point increase with this bios when I was on air. Temps raised to 70c but well under what I was comfortable with. Will you see a much higher score on water? Yes see my post above when I went to the hybrid cooler. 

hmm. I can't get temps below 75 @ 500w with fans at 100%
I get better results and higher clocks when I undervolt the GPU and limit power draw. obviously I can't achieve a maximum possible OC that way but at least the core clock does not drop due to thermals. I should probably pull the cooler and replace the TIM

03GLI

Notchy44

03GLI

will999999999
I think my card is fine but I don't want to put this BIOS on it because of the plethora of issues people are having in this thread. My card easily hits its original 450W limit fine in benchmarks and heavy games and my PCI-e slot usually hovers around 77W. I would just feel better about EVGA acknowledging some of these issues and providing an new BIOS at some point soon. My card already overclocks pretty well (+140 core / +550 mem) so I really want to see what it can do with the limit raised. I suppose I couldn't hurt anything trying it but I'd rather wait for a new version.

Air cooler is not enough for 500W, you will get nothing more out of it without exotic cooling.
with the Air cooler I suggest undervolting the GPU for better Overclocks , decreased power draw, and lower temperatures.
If you don't mind me asking what is you core clock in game/benchmark while hitting 450w power draw and what is the temperature.

Not true at all... Air cooled is fine with 500w. I saw a 500 point increase with this bios when I was on air. Temps raised to 70c but well under what I was comfortable with. Will you see a much higher score on water? Yes see my post above when I went to the hybrid cooler. 

hmm. I can't get temps below 75 @ 500w with fans at 100%
I get better results and higher clocks when I undervolt the GPU and limit power draw. obviously I can't achieve a maximum possible OC that way but at least the core clock does not drop due to thermals. I should probably pull the cooler and replace the TIM

Do you have bottom fans blowing cold air up into the card? Seems like that was a BIG help for me. In games at 4k I would never see above 70c at 85% fan speed. Benchmarking I had a avg of around 63c at 100% fan speed on air. Here is a link to my best air cooled vs Hybrid cooled. https://www.3dmark.com/compare/pr/754467/pr/735792

Does any one know why when running a heavy raytracing game, it draws more power? Does it have to do with the core or vram over clock? My undervolt OC holds 2000mhz when up to temps at any non rt game with +750 mem, but when i play a game with Ray tracing, I start bumping power limit again and drops my clocks to 1900ish. Does ray tracing  games use more vram and cause the added power draw making me hit power limit?  Thanks

LegendOfSomething
Does any one know why when running a heavy raytracing game, it draws more power? Does it have to do with the core or vram over clock? My undervolt OC holds 2000mhz when up to temps at any non rt game with +750 mem, but when i play a game with Ray tracing, I start bumping power limit again and drops my clocks to 1900ish. Does ray tracing  games use more vram and cause the added power draw making me hit power limit?  Thanks

I am by no means an expert, but I do remember reading somewhere that RT does increase vram usage quite a bit. So makes sense that there could be a higher power draw.

Hmmm... signed up for notify on 3090 Hybrid and been with EVGA for like 15 years. Some random video on the tube popped up and said boycott blah blah blah... honestly don’t think it will sway me as I’m not gonna push it to its absolute limits and EVGA has been good to me but apparently have some reading to do

Maybe I’m not understanding the first post on the page correctly, but is there no link to the original OC BIOS for the 3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid? All I see is the Normal BIOS and the XOC BIOS.