I plan to use my 3080ti FTW3 normally, as I would expect to, for gaming, accelerating video rendering, and so forth. I'll OC it, but won't run an extreme OC during games. I pushed my OC to the limits for some benchmarking, but won't expect to run it like that. I haven't mined on the card and don't expect to. The card is water cooled with the excellent full-coverage Optimus block and there is a gigantic full-sized (ie: covers the entire PCB) slab of thermal pad between the back of the PCB and the thick, finned milled aluminum backplate to help dissipate heat that soaks through the PCB from the components on the front side.
 
I purchased a 10-year extended warranty on this card. I'll use it as intended, not abuse it, and if it ever poofs I know EVGA will stand by it. I still have a functioning EVGA 960 to use as a placeholder if need be in the event of an RMA. I don't intend to baby this card or intentionally run it at lower than stock power levels or anything to protect it. I expect it to work, and I expect EVGA to stand by it if it doesn't. I paid a lot of money for this card even though I got it for approximately MSRP through the Newegg Shuffle, and I'm going to get my money's worth out of it. So far I've loved it.

eg1122
Today I woke up to my 3090 Ftw3 hybrid going dark during games. It's been almost a year since my last RMA. This will be the 5th replacement since I got my original card on December 2020. PC boots up fine but any kind of load on the gpu causes for signal to be lost and fans to ramp up. I also notice that when this happens my GPU core load drops to 0. I have a system monitor and this is the only component that drops as soon as the black screen starts. Sound remains on for a moment then it dies off as well. Already started an Advanced RMA and hope there are no issues with the replacement card. BTW this card is a rev 1.0 card. The 3 before this one were rev 0.1 all with black screen and fan ramping up issues.

EVGA gave me a full refund after 3 RMAs on the 3090 FTW3.  If you can get yourself a Strix, Gaming X Trio, or Suprim, I'd take a refund.  My card was having the black screen and 100% fans issue with the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra cards in multiple PCs.  That doesn't happen with a Strix, Gaming X Trio, Suprim, or Kingpin in the same systems.

joseph305

Moonman1969

KimbaWLion
I just received my 3070Ti after being in the queue since it came out. I was thinking of stepping up to the 3080 or 3080Ti within my 90 days and just wait it out. I understand that were some initial issues with the 3080s but I would LIKE to think that most issues would have been addressed by now.......................
 

AFAIK the 3080 is not currently available in the step-up program. Might change within 90 days though but sadly the only option up is the 3080ti or the 3090 at this point.

I have a 3070ti ftw3 and was going to use my step up for the 3080ftw ultra , waited 
with 8 days left on my step up. Went to use step up for that 3080ftw3 ultra, but evga
 just removed it from the available step ups. I posted in a thread here on evga and got 
a reply from evga , basiclly saying ' sorry , you'll have to step up to 3080ti instead.' 
 
So, I feel I got ripped off by evga , not letting me step up to the 3080ftw3 ultra, since
they were still available on the European step up queue ... and still are !
 

I feel your pain. I actually signed up a few months back and got my turn for the 3080 but it was extremely bad timing for a myriad a reasons so I decided to cancel and try to get back in queue for hopefully a shot in another few months but it was gone. Then the bugged entry thing happened and I signed up again only to be told sike jk that was just a glitch lol. They got us good with that one

yes we can

ObscureEmpyre
What’s going on with the 3080 Ti? I’ve got three and haven’t had any issues. One is an absolutely terrible overclocker, but that’s about the extent of it.

Its already been tested that power delivery is still unbalanced on the 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra - connector #2 runs way hot - and you cannot monitor this in software once it goes above 150+W.  Someone tried flashing the card with one of the super OC BIOS from I believe it was a HOF BIOS that's capable of 1000W...  and tested with the wires, came to the conclusion very quickly that the card could not safely deal with nearly that much power and even stock, #2 runs hot but the cards should be generally ok.  But by no means are the FTW3 cards this generation anywhere near a true XOC card.
 
They (EVGA) never designed the FTW3 right from day 1 and it still haunts them in all the newer FTW3 cards.  Will be interesting to see how much they limit the FTW3 3090 Ti to - my guess is at best it'll be a 500W limit in BIOS.