So has anyone tried playing with the classified tool on the ftw3 3080 and 3090's too see what happens? (or is it locked to Kingpin cards only? Has anyone been able to get around that? I guess maybe on a 3090 you could flash the bios but not a 3080?)
Clearly this is just another "issue" in a string of problems with these cards that just seem to be cost cut hard, for whats ment to be one of their top tier cards, they're not much better than a bottom end tier brand.
As Buildzoid points out, it seems to just be a reference card overspec'ed in the wrong areas and woefully underspec'ed in others (like a good cooler, great power delivery but gimped by an cheaper caps and an analog voltage controller).
Ughh, i know in gaming it probably only nets very little "gain" but it still miff's me that the card was sold with the PWR limit of 420w and mine, thats watercooled (after umming and ahhh'ing over the whole Bricking fiasco when you remove the cooler/fit a water block), running nice and cool and ready to overclock can't even hit that with the 450w bios (EXCEPT when it put under OCCT, where it'll draw 100w on that final plug #3 and hit 420w, in games you bet that im hitting the same values, sitting at 380w and gimped.
Then you just know theres others who have no intention to OC or do anything other than plug it in and play (which is also perfectly fine) who probably have cards with no power issue)
I'm very near just throwing caution to the wind and running the hacky bios to get full power (i mean you can always keep the OC bios from the switch on the eVGA bios and switch back if it fails....), hell if there was a decent hardware modification that'd fix this problem (such as maybe all these cards have a bad batch shunt resistors or something stupid that causes the voltage reg to read/report incorrectly?) that were removable (maybe hotglue shunt mod like Frame Chasers likes to do), i'd even consider that option
Anyway, guess i'll put my name down as another Gimped 3080 FTW3 (Ultra.....) that probably won't get "fixed", just swept under the rug (i mean Jacob said stay tuned for news in a couple weeks on this issue....that was in February no?)....i wouldn't have been so worried about my card when waterblocking it if i had have known about this before....probably would have risked an EK block over a Bykski too, if it died its a decent reason to RMA it.....
Only saving grace is i got this card as proper Australia MSRP ($1250 delivered) and not the $1750ish they're asking now (or higher for other brands), i guess now i know why it was so cheap?!?!?
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