Bit the bullet and managed to buy a 3090 - but........

[Justin Raymond]

So I managed to get hold of a EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 FTW3 ULTRA 24GB OC GPU

Plugged it into PC switched on smelled a slight burning smell, noticed the RGB lighting wasn't working and a red led light on the far right of the card. Wouldn't display on screens. Moved cables about etc and then tried to boot again.

This time it booted fine into windows and shows on screens, fans are working, games are working but no RGB and the what I now know is called the Red LED of death still lit up on the card.

Read a lot of issues concerning this GPU with the red LED of death lol so got worried it would go at some point in near future.

Raised a RMA but well peeved that paying the price you pay for a graphics card at the moment and having this happen!

Good thing I kept my 2800

 

[Justin Raymond]

I have RMA'd through the UK company ordered from (who very nicely have a DPD driver collecting on Monday) as it sounds like hell to courier to EVGA as it has to go overseas (Germany i think), brexit etc. EVGA advise you have to cover the costs to return to them.

 

[Justin Raymond]

I have a corsair HX1000i PSU

It's just weird that games run fine as most users say when they get the red LED that's it. I heard it can be caused by blown fuses?. Well it is being collected on Monday and I've asked for a refund. Might wait until next gen comes out so have a more substantial upgrade or move to Consoles.