So I've skimmed the first half of this thread and read all of the second half. A lot to take in.
 
I've got a 2114 b-stock card on water now with the 94.02.42.80.27 bios and rev 0.1 board. It's been a good card so far, seems to clock decently. 14845 on Port Royal with 5° water. With power maxed stays at around 420-430 watts with spikes as high as 445. Pulls 74 at the slot as reported in GPU-Z, so over spec as others have pointed out. But I'm ok with that.
 
So all this is fine but I recently added capacity to my cooling with the intent to run the full 500 or 520 watt bios. I'm wondering if I should just be happy as it is or if it's actually a ticking time bomb anyway.
 
I have 3 other ftw3 ultras at my disposal. I could bench each one on air and see which one clocks highest and allows the most power draw, then swap the blocks.
 
Does anybody know anything yet about the 2110 cards? What does that indicate? The other cards I have are as follows:
 
2114 rev 0.1 purchased 02/2021 from retail store
2110 rev 1.0 purchased 09/2021 from EVGA
2114 rev 1.0 purchased 11/2021 from retail store

badass1982
yes it does if the bios is killing their flagship cards they probably shouldn't have released it. Especially if it's killing this many cards , which is why I suspect it has nothing to do with the beta bios (and my current card has the upgraded voltage controller that was added to mitigate the initial issues the evga 3090's were having.

All NVIDIA cards have a potential issue caused by NVIDIA's decision to use average power limiting. Average power limiting is unable to detect and prevent peak power spikes. This is especially an issue when the product is a capable of high power consumption, with a high power limit, operating close to the max capability of the reference design's VRM. This is especially, especially an issue because NVIDIA's reference design decided to essentially disable the VRM's hardware-based protection (probably because it was triggering too often and would annoy people).
This is labeled as a Beta BIOS. It is not officially NVIDIA approved and may cause issues.
The warranty allows you to keep killing cards using this BIOS, but is the time and expense worth it to you?
This BIOS won't necessarily kill your card, but it certainly increases the chances.

ty_ger07

badass1982
Just thought I'd pop back in here to mention how my 4th , yes 4th EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra just died. Via a remote session i attempt to install the drivers and apparently it cant find any compatible hardware , no display on any of my monitors and the ONLY way i can see my desktop is through a remote session.
 
Card has been under water since install and hasn't gone above 60c. Pissed doesn't even begin to cover it. 4 (soon to be 5) if i have to RMA it 1200+ dollar cards is a joke.

Of note, you are posting this in the XOC Beta BIOS thread. If you are using this Beta XOC BIOS on all of your failed cards, you might want to consider a different BIOS next time with a lower power limit. Does a lower power limit really make a significant difference for whatever application you are using it for?

I was kind of thinking this myself. It seems unlikely that 4 cards die from EVGA. My guess...something else in the system is making this a bigger problem. Maybe it's because you are using water cooling and think you can push it super hard or maybe the PSU or mobo is causing an issue. 4 cards is A LOT. I would start checking elsewhere in your system to be honest...don't just keep putting video cards in there and breaking them. I know it's easy to blame EVGA and their card and I know it's frustrating that your very expensive GPU is dying but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the GPU's fault. 

well its a XOC bios. (xtreme over clocking) its not meant to be as safe as the 450 watt bios. its for people to push the card past its safe parameters.

I am having problems getting this bios flashed. I have a FTW3 Ultra part # 3987-KR. Every time I download the XOC Ultra bios on normal or OC it says “no display adapter”. So I tried to download the stock bios for the Ultra it to says “No display adapters” Anyone got a fix for this ? Please don’t roast me if this has been solved this thread is really long.

raymondb04
I am having problems getting this bios flashed. I have a FTW3 Ultra part # 3987-KR. Every time I download the XOC Ultra bios on normal or OC it says “no display adapter”. So I tried to download the stock bios for the Ultra it to says “No display adapters” Anyone got a fix for this ? Please don’t roast me if this has been solved this thread is really long.

Yep - make sure you downloaded the proper VBIOS flash, as this thread is for the rev 0.1 3090 FTW card and not the newer rev 1.0 cards (double check your card's part number to match it up): https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-30-Series-HYBRIDXOCDefault-BIOS-Thread-m3407542.aspx 

arestavo

raymondb04
I am having problems getting this bios flashed. I have a FTW3 Ultra part # 3987-KR. Every time I download the XOC Ultra bios on normal or OC it says “no display adapter”. So I tried to download the stock bios for the Ultra it to says “No display adapters” Anyone got a fix for this ? Please don’t roast me if this has been solved this thread is really long.

Yep - make sure you downloaded the proper VBIOS flash, as this thread is for the rev 0.1 3090 FTW card and not the newer rev 1.0 cards (double check your card's part number to match it up): https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-30-Series-HYBRIDXOCDefault-BIOS-Thread-m3407542.aspx 

The newer board 3090 will allow the power slider to 119% ? mine is stuck at 107% 
 

raymondb04

arestavo

raymondb04
I am having problems getting this bios flashed. I have a FTW3 Ultra part # 3987-KR. Every time I download the XOC Ultra bios on normal or OC it says “no display adapter”. So I tried to download the stock bios for the Ultra it to says “No display adapters” Anyone got a fix for this ? Please don’t roast me if this has been solved this thread is really long.

Yep - make sure you downloaded the proper VBIOS flash, as this thread is for the rev 0.1 3090 FTW card and not the newer rev 1.0 cards (double check your card's part number to match it up): https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-30-Series-HYBRIDXOCDefault-BIOS-Thread-m3407542.aspx 

The newer board 3090 will allow the power slider to 119% ? mine is stuck at 107% 
 

Couldn't tell you. And it's all relative to the base power, so if it's a 500W VBIOS, I doubt that it would have the same % increase as a 450W VBIOS. 

murlo26

ty_ger07

badass1982
Just thought I'd pop back in here to mention how my 4th , yes 4th EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra just died. Via a remote session i attempt to install the drivers and apparently it cant find any compatible hardware , no display on any of my monitors and the ONLY way i can see my desktop is through a remote session.

Card has been under water since install and hasn't gone above 60c. Pissed doesn't even begin to cover it. 4 (soon to be 5) if i have to RMA it 1200+ dollar cards is a joke.

Of note, you are posting this in the XOC Beta BIOS thread. If you are using this Beta XOC BIOS on all of your failed cards, you might want to consider a different BIOS next time with a lower power limit. Does a lower power limit really make a significant difference for whatever application you are using it for?

I was kind of thinking this myself. It seems unlikely that 4 cards die from EVGA. My guess...something else in the system is making this a bigger problem. Maybe it's because you are using water cooling and think you can push it super hard or maybe the PSU or mobo is causing an issue. 4 cards is A LOT. I would start checking elsewhere in your system to be honest...don't just keep putting video cards in there and breaking them. I know it's easy to blame EVGA and their card and I know it's frustrating that your very expensive GPU is dying but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the GPU's fault. 

Yeah except I hadn't actually overclocked them or overvolted them yet so nope.

Hi guys. Quick question (waiting for evga to respond on my ticket): I received a rev 0.1 3090 ftw3 ultra because my first card died/popped during New World. I just discovered that the XOC Bios doesnt work. The Card limits the power between ~380-400 watts. I never had this issue with my old one (also rev 0.1). The funny thing is the normal non OC Bios will run up to 420 watts...
 
Has someone experienced the same issue an solved it?