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The Ampere RTX 3090 Owners Thread

I am done with EVGA after my 1080Ti FE fiasco (bought directly from them for years), Titan Xp (2017) was obviously from Nvidia so was 3090FE and from now on will remain that way.
 
The FE is no better and has two faults really the bad whining and the fans that either rattle or make this screaching noise like on the video below, most of our 3090 FE cards at work make some noise now and have been sent back for AIB cards of the blower type.

 
Purgatory said:
The FE is no better and has two faults really the bad whining and the fans that either rattle or make this screaching noise like on the video below, most of our 3090 FE cards at work make some noise now and have been sent back for AIB cards of the blower type.

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Sounds like the fan is clipping some of the fins.


How are you getting blower fan cards? They were all removed from advertisements a while ago.
 
Purgatory said:
The FE is no better and has two faults really the bad whining and the fans that either rattle or make this screaching noise like on the video below, most of our 3090 FE cards at work make some noise now and have been sent back for AIB cards of the blower type.

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Both my FE 3090 cards are very quiet and don't have the problem in the video.

Having said that I think it is the luck of the draw.

For a lot of people buying FE cards it's not a problem anyway as they all sound the same with a waterblock.
 
Kaapstad said:
Both my FE 3090 cards are very quiet and don't have the problem in the video.

Having said that I think it is the luck of the draw.

For a lot of people buying FE cards it's not a problem anyway as they all sound the same with a waterblock.
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It is the luck of the draw sadly, we purchased a lot and most seemed fine at first, then the rattle would start on some and the ones that whined would whine from day one and not really get better over time. We just got fed up of them and we only have like 4 pairs left in 4 NVlink systems. Rest got sent back for a refund or changed for other cards after sending them back for replacements more than one time to get cards doing same or worse, they also said it's not a fault ... just how the cards work the whining we said nope, enough is enough now we have replaced over 20+ cards and still ending up with cards that are worse, so refund or we will make a legal issue out of it. So they refunded us and replaced some with blower cards or other AIB cards we were happy with.
 
Kaapstad said:
EVGA are not the same company as they were 5 years ago.

I am so glad I did not buy one of their Mingpin 3090s.
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Yes I saw that on the EVGA forums and every post is a problem or failure of their 3000 series card now. I dodged a bullet with them this time, I did want the 3090 ftw ultras, but of course they never let us have them in UK and by time people got them and all the faults I decided to avoid and get something else that doesn't cause issues. EVGA don't even care about the UK anymore and even people in EU are saying same. Their loss really.
 
Purgatory said:
It is the luck of the draw sadly, we purchased a lot and most seemed fine at first, then the rattle would start on some and the ones that whined would whine from day one and not really get better over time. We just got fed up of them and we only have like 4 pairs left in 4 NVlink systems. Rest got sent back for a refund or changed for other cards after sending them back for replacements more than one time to get cards doing same or worse, they also said it's not a fault ... just how the cards work the whining we said nope, enough is enough now we have replaced over 20+ cards and still ending up with cards that are worse, so refund or we will make a legal issue out of it. So they refunded us and replaced some with blower cards or other AIB cards we were happy with.
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3090 FE cards are pretty useless for SLI even without the noise problems, way too bulky triple slot cards and it is difficult these days to find suitable motherboards to run them.

I have 2 FE 3090s but have not got around to using them in the same PC because of the above.

Hopefully for the next Gen NVidia can produce high end cards that only use 2 slots and a decent cooler.
 
Kaapstad said:
Both my FE 3090 cards are very quiet and don't have the problem in the video.

Having said that I think it is the luck of the draw.

For a lot of people buying FE cards it's not a problem anyway as they all sound the same with a waterblock.
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Noise is very dependant on a person's age. What a teenager or person in their 20's will find audible/annoying will be very different to a person even in their forties, especially for men. Once men get in their 50's or 60's, on average they've lost much of the higher frequency audible spectrum, so are not reliable indicators on whether a GPU (or anything else) is noisy :p
 
Kaapstad said:
3090 FE cards are pretty useless for SLI even without the noise problems, way too bulky triple slot cards and it is difficult these days to find suitable motherboards to run them.

I have 2 FE 3090s but have not got around to using them in the same PC because of the above.

Hopefully for the next Gen NVidia can produce high end cards that only use 2 slots and a decent cooler.
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If you want to use them in sli with your 5950x in a 4 slot board, the only one is the MSI x570 GodLike, nothing else for x570.
 
Purgatory said:
Yes I saw that on the EVGA forums and every post is a problem or failure of their 3000 series card now. I dodged a bullet with them this time, I did want the 3090 ftw ultras, but of course they never let us have them in UK and by time people got them and all the faults I decided to avoid and get something else that doesn't cause issues. EVGA don't even care about the UK anymore and even people in EU are saying same. Their loss really.
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I saw one guy on their forum trying to get the maximum out of a Kingpin 3090 with normal cooling, even with custom bios and support from Vince himself the card did not perform any better than guys on this forum have managed with just a normal card and waterblock.
 
Dave2150 said:
Noise is very dependant on a person's age. What a teenager or person in their 20's will find audible/annoying will be very different to a person even in their forties, especially for men. Once men get in their 50's or 60's, on average they've lost much of the higher frequency audible spectrum, so are not reliable indicators on whether a GPU (or anything else) is noisy :p
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Best way to see if a GPU is noisy is to ask the missus !!!

Women's hearing is better than Men's, I wonder if evolution did that on purpose to make our lives miserable.:eek::)
 
Kaapstad said:
I saw one guy on their forum trying to get the maximum out of a Kingpin 3090 with normal cooling, even with custom bios and support from Vince himself the card did not perform any better than guys on this forum have managed with just a normal card and waterblock.
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Yes sadly they are no better than any other good AIB card with a decent VRM and VBIOS with a 400w+ limit. The problem is the GPU chip they are already working at their limits in most cases with boards that have the higher power limits, adding more power does nothing in most cases unless you get a really good chip and even then it's hardly a boost and in real world makes zero difference and only shows up on benchmarks.
 
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