nataku24
Greetings everyone,
 
First off I want to give a big thank you to the various people in this thread who helped clarify and post a ton of valuable information on how to properly get to the magical 500w limit. With that said, I have a concern that I hope to get some feedback on. I recently got a replacement card (REV 1.0) however I noticed that my temps have gone up pretty significantly. My previous REV 0.1 card usually stayed within the 69-71c range when gaming. For reference, that is with the higher power limit bios installed but no overclock. Now with the new card it hits around 77-78c under the same exact conditions.
 
To make matters worse when I OC the card and give it the full 500w power, it creeps to about 87-88c (with 90-100% fans). Is this normal behavior for these REV 1.0 cards? I have replaced the thermal paste as I figured maybe there was a factory defect on the paste but results stayed the same. Has anyone else experienced any increase in temps from swapping cards or do I possibly have a bad card?

Sorry to hear about the problems you are having. I had a rev 0.1 card which I sent on early May 2021 and a month+ later I got a rev 1.0 card which was stuck at stock clocks and whatever I did crapped out so I sent it back again and waited another month++ and got a decent rev 1.0 card. It's all posted here, also which BIOS has to be used to reach 500W and more valuable info. I have to say that both of my rev 1.0 cards were super cool with the stock cooler, a thing that I also posted and main reason why I didn't even bother to install the waterblock yet. As far as your problem if you already changed the thermal compound and/or replaced thermalpads can be the silicon, some GPUs and GDDR6X Chips (as all chips) are hotter, some are cooler, some use more volts and others less. If you are keeping this card I wouldn't spend any money on the hybrid cooler, from my experience it's not good, the best it's still a custom waterblock, specially the active ones. If you feel that can be a hardware issue (you can spot this using a thermal camera) then send it back.
 
All the best, Sergio!

andressergio

nataku24
Greetings everyone,
 
First off I want to give a big thank you to the various people in this thread who helped clarify and post a ton of valuable information on how to properly get to the magical 500w limit. With that said, I have a concern that I hope to get some feedback on. I recently got a replacement card (REV 1.0) however I noticed that my temps have gone up pretty significantly. My previous REV 0.1 card usually stayed within the 69-71c range when gaming. For reference, that is with the higher power limit bios installed but no overclock. Now with the new card it hits around 77-78c under the same exact conditions.
 
To make matters worse when I OC the card and give it the full 500w power, it creeps to about 87-88c (with 90-100% fans). Is this normal behavior for these REV 1.0 cards? I have replaced the thermal paste as I figured maybe there was a factory defect on the paste but results stayed the same. Has anyone else experienced any increase in temps from swapping cards or do I possibly have a bad card?

Sorry to hear about the problems you are having. I had a rev 0.1 card which I sent on early May 2021 and a month+ later I got a rev 1.0 card which was stuck at stock clocks and whatever I did crapped out so I sent it back again and waited another month++ and got a decent rev 1.0 card. It's all posted here, also which BIOS has to be used to reach 500W and more valuable info. I have to say that both of my rev 1.0 cards were super cool with the stock cooler, a thing that I also posted and main reason why I didn't even bother to install the waterblock yet. As far as your problem if you already changed the thermal compound and/or replaced thermalpads can be the silicon, some GPUs and GDDR6X Chips (as all chips) are hotter, some are cooler, some use more volts and others less. If you are keeping this card I wouldn't spend any money on the hybrid cooler, from my experience it's not good, the best it's still a custom waterblock, specially the active ones. If you feel that can be a hardware issue (you can spot this using a thermal camera) then send it back.
 
All the best, Sergio!

Thanks for the input, its greatly appreciated. I gave it a few days and it hits 80-81c stock which is now 10-11c above my last card. I will most likely return this one as well and hope that I can get a better one next time. Fingers crossed & best of luck to everyone else who is still trying to get a 1.0 unit as well!

nataku24

andressergio

nataku24
Greetings everyone,
 
First off I want to give a big thank you to the various people in this thread who helped clarify and post a ton of valuable information on how to properly get to the magical 500w limit. With that said, I have a concern that I hope to get some feedback on. I recently got a replacement card (REV 1.0) however I noticed that my temps have gone up pretty significantly. My previous REV 0.1 card usually stayed within the 69-71c range when gaming. For reference, that is with the higher power limit bios installed but no overclock. Now with the new card it hits around 77-78c under the same exact conditions.
 
To make matters worse when I OC the card and give it the full 500w power, it creeps to about 87-88c (with 90-100% fans). Is this normal behavior for these REV 1.0 cards? I have replaced the thermal paste as I figured maybe there was a factory defect on the paste but results stayed the same. Has anyone else experienced any increase in temps from swapping cards or do I possibly have a bad card?

Sorry to hear about the problems you are having. I had a rev 0.1 card which I sent on early May 2021 and a month+ later I got a rev 1.0 card which was stuck at stock clocks and whatever I did crapped out so I sent it back again and waited another month++ and got a decent rev 1.0 card. It's all posted here, also which BIOS has to be used to reach 500W and more valuable info. I have to say that both of my rev 1.0 cards were super cool with the stock cooler, a thing that I also posted and main reason why I didn't even bother to install the waterblock yet. As far as your problem if you already changed the thermal compound and/or replaced thermalpads can be the silicon, some GPUs and GDDR6X Chips (as all chips) are hotter, some are cooler, some use more volts and others less. If you are keeping this card I wouldn't spend any money on the hybrid cooler, from my experience it's not good, the best it's still a custom waterblock, specially the active ones. If you feel that can be a hardware issue (you can spot this using a thermal camera) then send it back.
 
All the best, Sergio!

Thanks for the input, its greatly appreciated. I gave it a few days and it hits 80-81c stock which is now 10-11c above my last card. I will most likely return this one as well and hope that I can get a better one next time. Fingers crossed & best of luck to everyone else who is still trying to get a 1.0 unit as well!

good luck bro!

All my ICX Sensors are gone except GPU one after installing Alphacool RTX 3090 FTW3 Waterblock, I did it because temperatures are getting higher here and the GPU was hot and so memory...GPU-Z keeps reporting except iCX PWR5
 
I tried a lot of things and nothing seems to work, I saw another post of a guy with a EK Waterblock that happened just the same. After some time GPU-Z crashes and saw some BSOD that I never seen before, in fact I don't recall having one since a year...all pointing "cannot allocate video memory".
Can't believe this, it's my third card...
 
This is what PX1 shows me now:
 

 
 

 
Good Afternoon guys, I have updated my Bios on my FTW3 Ultra 3090 to the XOC Bios and here is the result gaming, can you guys advise on if and how I should request an RMA to the new Revision card?

AlpAne
Another short update.
 
I have now managed to check the PWM controller without removing cooler, had to use a flashlight and magnifier, was really hard to see it through the cooling fins but after some effort I could identify that it was revised new NCP81610 PWM controller on my PCB. Also my new card has black lips as expected. I'm happy so far! :-)
 
Only left to test the PCIe power draw and some OC performance. Will hopefully come back with test results in a couple of days.

Well done on spotting the PWM without pulling the cooler!  Is anyone else with a replacement card able to verify this?
AlpAne, how did you get on with the OC checks?

So for 3982 v1.0 black lipped card the 94.02.42.80.27 bios is best. What is the latest consensus on best bios for a red lipped v0.1 24G-P5-3987-KR if one were to stick with that due to silicon lottery luck?

So, I´ve just send them the email to get a rev 0.1 . How is the process?
 
Edit: I have already gotten a response and I have been asked to pay for the shippping. As I live in the EU, isn´t this against the law? Should not evga pay for the shipping?

Edit. Found answer.

So question...I installed the 500W BIOS when I bought my RTX 3090 last year in November 2020.  Do I need to update to a newer version of BIOS since then?