Varning för New World + FTW3 3090

Som sagt det är inte bara Evga som har gått sönder.

EVGA issued a RMA for people having problems with their 3090 FTW3 Ultra cards where the cards were replaced with a card that had a newer circuit board revision. For most of those people, the repeat problems that they had went away after they received their updated card. Yet its not an EVGA hardware problem to you?????

The problem with EVGA FTW3 3090 design is the circuit board is a basically reference design with an extra power connector and some extra power stages added. In addition to that, the original onboard code stated it was designed for three 8 pin power connectors and one 6 pin power connector. This was confirmed by people who pulled the code off the card with chip readers. What would happen is the card would max out the power draw through two of the 8 pin power connectors then draw more power through the PCIEx16 slot and not the thirds 8 pin PCIE connector. The PCIEx16 slot specs say a maximum power draw of 75 watts across all voltage rails. With the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra, many users were reporting 85-90 watts power draw through the PCIEx16 slot just on the 12v rail alone.

Here is the short version of my experience with EVGA FEW3 Ultra 3090 cards. The first one had a BISO switch that didn't work. The next two constantly crashed with any DX11 game or DX11 graphics benchmark.

I've been building custom PCs for both gamers and business clients since the 1990s. I have NEVER had multiple failures of the same model graphics card before my issues with the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra. I've had 10 different RTX 3090 cards in my hands since release. The EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 ultra was the only one I had multiple repeat issues with.

I had the same issue with the 3090 FTW3 Ultra cards in three different computers with multiple different EVGA and Seasonic power supplies. I had the same problems with both current and new installs of Windows 10 with the latest drivers. In both systems with all of the power supplies I replicated the exact same issue time and time again. I spent many hours troubleshooting the issue on my own and with EVGA support. I tried different hardware combinations and different EVGA card BIOS versions at the instruction of EVGA support.

I tried my own Seasonic and EVGA power supplies, including having a single 1300 watt EVGA G2 or 1300 watt Seasonic Prime Platinum power supply dedicated to power only the card and a separate power supply for the rest of the system. Yet I still had the same issues. I guess a 1300 Watt EVGA G2 power supply or a 1300 watt Seasonic Prime Platinum power supply are garbage and inadequate to to power a single 3090 in your opinion?

I tried having nothing but the CPU, two sticks of RAM, one SATA SSD, and the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 ultra in a system with all the motherboard's onboard extra hardware disabled(expect what was needed) and a new clean install of windows 10 with the latest drivers. Yet I still had the same issues with the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 ultra.

Know what fixed the issue? Swapping in a MSI Gaming X Trio 3090. After that all of the problems went away. I then flashed the 450 watt MSI 3090 Suprim BIOS to the Gaming X Trio. Still No problems. Next I tried flashing the the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra 450 watt BIOS to the Gaming X Trio. Still no problems. After that, I tried flashing the the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra 500 watt XOC BIOS to the Gaming X Trio. Still no problems. In addition to that, I tried both the 520 watt Kingpin "LN2" BIOS and the 1000 watt Kingpin XOC BIOS on the Gaming X trio. Still not problems even when overclocking the Gaming X Trio and pulling 600-700 watts through the three PCIE 8 pin connectors while using the same power supply that I was using when the EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 ultra was constantly crashing. Must be a garbage power supply I guess.

I also tried a 3090 Strix in the same system with the Strix 480 watt BIOS, the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra 500 watt XOC BIOS, and the 520 watt Kingpin "LN2" BIOS. No problems with that card and any of the BIOS versions in the same system where the EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra was constantly crashing, especially in DX11 games.
Since then I've tried two RTX 3090 Kingpin cards in the same systems without issues.

Know what was the common factor in all of the problems in all of the systems? The EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 ultra card. That was the issue, yet you don't believe it was the card.