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After more years than I care to remember of buying EVGA products I finally had one fail on me.

My most awesome 3090 FTW3 Ultra bit the dust yesterday evening. I use it quite heavily in gaming on a mostly daily basis.

Luckily I had the foresight to purchase the EVGA Advanced RMA with next day cross shipping.

 

Called their tech support today, and a very helpful gentleman has already processed the Advanced RMA for it and I should hear back on shipping details in 1-2 business days. Once received I will have 14 days to return the defective card to them.

 

Big kudos to EVGA on this! 

This type of service is why I buy EVGA products. I have always read about their great service and can now attest to the same.


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Don B

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Wow DB. That's good their customer service is that good. I received my 3090 yesterday and flew once last night. I have some system tweaking to do, but I'm happy with the purchase even though I waited for almost a year. 🙂

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9 minutes ago, pimp said:

Wow DB. That's good their customer service is that good. I received my 3090 yesterday and flew once last night. I have some system tweaking to do, but I'm happy with the purchase even though I waited for almost a year. 🙂

 

Yep it is a great card for sure. I will be so happy to have the replacement in hand.

Gonna be a long weekend without gaming going on.

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Wow so I was expecting to hear back in 1-2 business days.

But I just heard back from them already! Everything is approved and I just needed to submit my CC # for them to hold as collateral until they get the defective card back. 

 

This is why EVGA has such a stellar reputation in customer service. They took something I was dreading and made it as simple and painless than I could possibly have even imagen! 

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Yay my replacement EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra is out for delivery today by 7:00 PM.

Made the call to EVGA on Friday afternoon and here it is out for delivery, awesomeness.

Of course that is because I purchased the Advanced RMA with next day air service back when I registered this card, and am very glad I did.

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So what to do whilst awaiting on my replacement 3090 FTW3 Ultra?

Well can't game till it arrives later this afternoon - had a message from MS this morning in Windows Update that my PC was all good to go for Windows 11. So I downloaded the install assistant and off I went.

Yep I am now running Windows 11. I like early adopter stuff anyways lol. Took about 45 minutes and all appears well - course can't game just yet.

 

I did have to go back in and take power management off all my USB peripheral devices again. I hate how MS keeps putting it back on after big updates.

I am now officially on Windows Version 21H2.

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Woohoo card received this evening and back in business! So far working splendidly!

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Sucks, mate, sorry to hear that! Any idea what did it in? Wasn't New World, was it? Good thing you had EVGA on-side to sort it out for you though!

 

I notice our systems are quite similar apart from the 6/8 core CPUs. What's your opinion on the 3090 (founder's edition in my case, IF I buy one) for DCS on VR?

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56 minutes ago, Tocamac said:

Sucks, mate, sorry to hear that! Any idea what did it in? Wasn't New World, was it? Good thing you had EVGA on-side to sort it out for you though!

 

I notice our systems are quite similar apart from the 6/8 core CPUs. What's your opinion on the 3090 (founder's edition in my case, IF I buy one) for DCS on VR?

 

Thanks yeah very glad I had that Advanced RMA I purchased with the card.  This replacement doing very well so far.

No I do not have New World - was playing MechWarrior 5 in VR when it died. Mine was an early model which I got in Nov 2020.

 

As far as the 3090 a lot depends I guess on what you would be coming from. I came from a 2080 Ti FTW3 and it was an improvement but not a huge improvement. I was pleased but it sure was a lot of money for a GPU at the same time. 


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So I've got a 1080 Ti that clocks to around 2000 / 6000 and runs cool and mostly quiet at those clocks. I know what you mean about it being a lotta money, MSRP where I live is around 22-25% more than the USA, but after waiting a whole year, at least I can now get one! 

 

You think the 3090 would give me 50-60% better FPS than I currently get and, more importantly, would it make VR more doable?

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48 minutes ago, Tocamac said:

So I've got a 1080 Ti that clocks to around 2000 / 6000 and runs cool and mostly quiet at those clocks. I know what you mean about it being a lotta money, MSRP where I live is around 22-25% more than the USA, but after waiting a whole year, at least I can now get one! 

 

You think the 3090 would give me 50-60% better FPS than I currently get and, more importantly, would it make VR more doable?

 

Hard to say - but it is a two generation difference and the 3090 has a ton of Vram which DCS likes.

If it were me in your shoes and now had an opportunity to buy it at regular retail I would certainly do it.

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What sorta FPS do you average with your 9900K @ 5.2 and your 3090 in DCS? What settings?

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