I GOT AN RTX 3090 $500 BELOW MSRP!!! | But there's a problem...

[@vavanjukebox7137]

What a story! Thanks for sharing this with us. It will surely help some others..

[@OTechnology]

Yea I only got to understand what was going on after I got the card on hand myself. It seems like New World blowing up GPUs was more like EVGA cards being faulty.

[@N0N0111]

@@OTechnology Yes there was a huge community investigation why the cards were blowing up. EVGA was very silent in that period, but they handle it well by giving owners new cards. Some owners even got 4th to 5th replacement models lol. As EVGA came to understand the PCB design was faulty they silently redesigned it and limit the ver. 0.1 on power draws. Good you did some investigations, and i would quickly return this card and get the new revisions with less power blocks and revision fixes.

[@OTechnology]

@@N0N0111 yea I will have a follow-up video comparing the PCBs of the 2 revision to see what exactly they changed. Would be interesting to see because it seems like EVGA is staying silent about what's wrong with the Rev 0.1.

[@HiroMiyo1]

Would be great if you can look into undervolting as well as it seems to have an uplift to performance

[@mahmoudmostafa7587]

You got me concern ,, I have the EVGA RTX 3080 FTW Ultra (rev 0.1) ,, Does it have the same proplem like his big brother 3090 ?!!!

[@OTechnology]

As far as I know yes

[@lewisner]

I recently bought one used for £650. Its pretty sweet , gets 19775 on time spy at stock settings and 60 degrees max temp.

[@stevenross-watt8640]

I managed to buy one used as well. Previously I'd have a 3090fe in my own machine and in this second machine I've now got the 3090 ftw3. I think I'm going to take it out and remove the fans and shroud and clean all dust properly. Did you do any cleaning of yours when you got it? (Update: I removed the fan shroud and each fan and cleaned the dust and fluff on the heatsink, there was very little but I've done it. I didn't remove the fan shroud LED connector, just lay the fan shroud to the side and I didn't remove the fan connectors on the PCB, just carefully pulled each fan out of the way to clean the heatsink and the dust from the back of each fan blade. Looks like new now.

[@RedRandy]

I just bought a RTX3060TI at $279, I feel excited. Gotta wait til it comes :)

[@coltonkelly6303]

Bro I'm looking at used 3090s all day for 800$ usd locally near me even as low as 600$ tested upon arrival

[@techluvin7691]

The ft3w has issues with the 12v power rail. Always the same mofset that fails.

[@amirulhasif9022]

I got it around 795$ last week. Overall, nice solid card tbh

[@pav1u]

did you do the sims? i wonder the exact measure you used to only use shims + copper ;) thank you in advance!

[@N0N0111]

2:28 Don't use liquid metal, it will degrade/dissolve the solder and maybe even ruin the solder points. (ask Der8auer) 2:15 Do the "Copper Plate Mod" the shim mod is dirty and cost a lot time.

[@OTechnology]

No it will not. I have used liquid metal on shunts on every gpu and laptop I had for years. Never an issue with conductonaut. Der8auer even said its fine instead, I think you remembered wrongly. The copper plate is way more expensive for some silly pieces of copper, I've used copper shim pads successfully on all my GPUs as well. Its only difficult if you don't know what you're doing.

[@N0N0111]

@@OTechnology Okay boss. I may have confused other liquid metal brand that damage other metals. Well i want to see your mod more now how you do the copper shims.

[@OTechnology]

@@N0N0111 From what I know the ones that eat solder are the coolaboratory liquid ultra. Conductonaut does not eat solder at all. For sure, look for it in the coming weeks if EVGA RMAs this card quickly haha.

[@davidpeterson6147]

doesn't repeatedly touching the pci-e contact contaminate the electrical connections? I thought it was a really bad idea to touch this area with bare fingers...

[@notchipotle]

not really, unless your hand is dirty/oily, they're gold plated so it doesn't easily react with most element

[@OTechnology]

Just wipe it off if you're paranoid. It's gold so it won't corrode but yes if your hands are super oily and dirty it is bad to touch it.

[@fmondigir]

i hope in indonesia gpu price back to normal msrp soon. or already on msrp? because now tax up to 11% from 10%. how do you think the price in indonesia? tq.

[@Zensaitv]

Wasn't it bad soldering on the MOSFETs might be a easy fix with some flux, or. Buying the MOSFET chips or a thermal camera 📸 lol but hope you get a replacement and can't wait to see the peak gpu spec of that beast.

[@OTechnology]

It was not. It was plain bad PCB design. I will have a follow-up video comparing the PCBs once I get the replacement in. And also ofcourse max overclocking it lol.

[@Zensaitv]

@@OTechnology oh gotcha well neither way good find and to get the replacement for 1.3k is nice 👍 can't wait in the next weeks

[@OTechnology]

@@Zensaitv yea i am super happy getting it lol will do more interesting videos on it.

[@Bekcak]

Just two week ago I got my EVGA RTX 3090 XC3 Ultra for 650 US Dollars and it still has warranty. I played and run some test with it for a week and send it to RMA for a fan replacement and cleaning the card.

[@Gamevet]

I picked up the same card about a month ago. The 3rd fan won't function, until you install EVGA Precision X-1. This card is not one that someone would buy for over-clocking. I've basically set the fans at 75% and lowered the clock by 50MHz. It stays above 1800 Mhz and never goes above 75c, while gaming.

[@coltonkelly6303]

@Gamevet is that something to expect with all these cards? I'm looking at them right now some around 600-800$ and I'd really hate to pass that up as I'm currently making a list for my first pc

[@Gamevet]

@@coltonkelly6303 I had an EVGA GTX 1080 Classified, that wouldn't enable the lighting, without Precision-X, so it is likely that way.

[@coltonkelly6303]

@Gamevet dam okay thanks alot man good tips

[@dragonbike471]

Recently got one for $550 I was wondering if evga still takes it for rma I mean it looks fine to me

[@awprice007]

I just picked up an EVGA 3080ti FTW3 Ultra for $680. Cant believe how far down these prices have come.

[@OTechnology]

Yep I even lost money on this one lol

[@awprice007]

@@OTechnology Such is life in the tech world lol

[@reviewforthetube6485]

I hate you got the bad pcb evga, luckily they don't have this issue with the 3090ti! I wish you got a rev2 of the 3090! Bevause holy shit the rev2 3090 evga is a monster. Regardless the 3090ti is so damn good I'm shocked. Can even use the xoc asus 3090ti bios 890watt! Yeah thats right an 890watt bios it's insane what it can do with the asus and evga cards. I really really hate that evga 3090 had this issue. Maybe you can get the 3090ti evga and enjoy! Believe me when you get a good evga 3090 you won't want to get rid of it haha.

[@OTechnology]

I replaced mine with the rev2 3090 FTW3. It ran the 1000W XOC BIOS no problem lmao although it can't really stay cool above 700W.

[@reviewforthetube6485]

@@OTechnology of course it can't, most cards can barely hit Over 610 you are lucky af if you got it to 700! Even the asus 3090ti doesn't like to get to 700watts

[@OTechnology]

@@reviewforthetube6485 just used liquid metal between the gpu core and the heatsink. Works great for about 600-700W power draw but needs max fan lol.

[@reviewforthetube6485]

@@OTechnology good stuff, well you don't need a ti then you are alresdy hitting all the ti numbers with watts that is. I'm not kidding you are hitting mror watts then the gigabyte, msi, etc only one able to do that is asus and evga on that bios. I mean I've not seen one other person with any 3090 hit 700watts. That's fucking insane! Where are you sitting on the leaderboards in timespy?

[@reviewforthetube6485]

@@OTechnology may I ask what the max clock you were able to get out of yoyr evga 3090? I mean I bet you didn't expect to be able to pull 700 watts with that card either did you? I will say it seems like most cards like 90s and ti variants of the 90s are sitting within 600-700watts in that bios. So it's hard to get past that unless it's with the kingpin ti hybrid or as you said the asus hybrid. I really expected the suprim x to be the best variant cor air cooled but Temps weren't as stable and it's clocks didn't go as high when overclocking which was unexpected memory overclocked great though! But yeah Idk it just seems evga knows what to do regardless of reading a spec sheet they know what to do for overclocking needs. I hate using places like techpowerup but even they weren't able to overclock cards as well as they could with the evga 3090ti and the asus strix 3090ti. It was there top 2 I'm 3090ti. Now out of rhe box yes some are higher but overclocked nope evga and asus sit at the top in air cooled and in hybrid varaints. Weirdest part is you can't find those results unless you look at the overclocking snd poeer limit page on there site of the suprim x then it shows there max oberclok of the cards and the evga ftw3 ultra and the asus hybrid were thw top 2. The sad part is my ultra is much higher then there's even. Most people I know are.

[@ericb.2920]

Do you know if this same issue you’re talking about applies to the FTW3 3080ti REV 1.0 ? I just bought one. Thanks for the vid.

[@OTechnology]

The 3080Ti does not have this issue it was only the 3090 cards.

[@BlaZebura]

@@OTechnology unfortunately it does have the screwed up balancing. I had one and ended up selling it for the strix LC

[@OTechnology]

@@BlaZebura 3080Ti? I thought it was only the 3080s? Interesting. Any source to this?

[@BlaZebura]

@@OTechnology yeah It’s also on EVGA forum(and my personal experience, though probably not as weighted)

[@BlaZebura]

Also i’d like to add on the GA102 based FTW3 cards(minus the 90Ti-still unsure), they all have some sort of fuse on all 4 PCIE inputs(pcie slot, 8 pin 1-3) that can and will blow, causing the infamous red light of death this was the other reason I ended up selling it since coupled with the absurd power limit imbalance, I was putting way too much load on the PCIE slot when I was using the GALAX XOC bios(something that isn’t an issue on the strix LC due to its superior VRM and less power balancing issues compared to the EVGA where the PCIE slot, Pin 1 and 2 just takes the full weight of the power while pin 3 is maxed out at 100w afaik(other pins are >130 if I recall correctly)

[@cyxus8333]

will you be doing a tierlist for the 3050?

[@OTechnology]

Almost finished with it

[@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine]

Default display ports they have a get your own that need to be installed by a computer technician

[@lansiman]

i don’t quite understand the whole thing with risking stability,hardware reliability and huge power draw for tiny difference in performance

[@OTechnology]

I just like to overclock. Same as with cars, if you just want to get from A to B you don't buy a BMW M3 you buy a Corolla or something.

[@lansiman]

@@OTechnology in this case its like having a 1500hp chiron and still think it need some mod, but i get it,i won’t spoil the fun

[@OTechnology]

@@lansiman Yea sure if you think the stock performance is enough and you don't really care it works "fine" but this EVGA card is just not performing as it should having a 500W BIOS available officially that cannot actually draw 500W.

[@Rangerscott69]

That card looked way more balanced than my rev 1.0.

[@TheWarcraftz]

heyy broo, whats up, extremely good GPU comparison content for the channel, hope that you can make one video comparing all the GTX 1660/Ti/Super cards in the near future, that would be a good one to make.

[@seafood5433]

Glad you love my card !

[@OTechnology]

Haha thanks dude

[@rainidayz5021]

What software is it you use to see the power from each pcie 8 pin?

[@Worms_Pro]

Why didn't he switch it out?

[@gouen95]

ayo is that a logitech g502 x mouse?

[@OTechnology]

Its a G502 SE yes

[@kiflix]

Your have new product 👍👍👈👈

[@OfficialGundem]

update with this card?

[@henrikpflanz6647]

any amd buying guides soon?

[@OTechnology]

Honestly all the AMD cards are great to ok to buy with all very strong VRMs, seriously I haven't seen a card that's so bad I would tell anyone to avoid. Either their reference specs are higher than Nvidia's or just fewer manufacturers means less skimping out on parts from crappy manufacturers. So I see less point in making buying guides for those. Especially when I always get way less demand and views for them...

[@henrikpflanz6647]

@@OTechnology just wondering. 3050/ 3090 ti buying guides?

[@mohahhafiiz2153]

what mic are u using

[@Hi-levels]

I got zotac 3090 700 usd used

[@Neonloverx]

it costs around 700$ now. so ummm you paid twice that

[@ClassicalPan]

Why'd you have to say "Not just some crappy XC3"? That's the model of 3080 I want because it has decent thermals and a bit of OC headroom. Sort of the high end of "middle of the road" GPUs, which I decided based on your video! lol

[@OTechnology]

It is one of the crappiest RTX 3090, the two slot cooler barely enough to keep it cool. The PCB is also just a very basic bare minimum reference PCB. It works but its really not great.

[@ClassicalPan]

@@OTechnology Fortunately I'm not wealthy enough to consider a 3090 anyway. Hopefully the XC3 3080 isn't as crappy as the 3090 variant.

[@LawrenceTimme]

@@ClassicalPan the evga xc3 3080 also suck. I have that one. Please do not buy. Would recommend Asus tuf oc or something bigger.

[@ClassicalPan]

@@LawrenceTimme In what ways does it suck? It has a low power ceiling which limits OC potential, but that's not an issue for me.

[@LawrenceTimme]

@@ClassicalPan runs hot and load. The low power limit is because it already runs too hot. Lol

[@LawrenceTimme]

Epeen +500

[@OTechnology]

I've never been so e-rect

[@qT_p13]

Have fun with your new toys until you get tired of them and put them back in the box.

[@anon2036]

lmao me in 2023, who just bought one for 600 dollars.

[@OTechnology]

Yep I sold it before the value dropped at all lol

[@scrubclowngaming189]

I got mine for 800

[@mikeshobbiesandrandomstuff]

B stock is even cheaper

[@roguenation4822]

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[@Pertamax7-HD]

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