Strange still there are no comments from AMD-hysteric-fanboys crying how Nvidia is at fault here, or how "again" Nvidia ruined their cards\PCs\lives. Regardless it is not good when card manufacturers skip the usage of 1cent thermal pads... (manufacturers, not Nvidia.... AMD-fanboys, I note this specifically for you as your precious AMD-cards may also be affected one day)

Amazing how people feel the need to instigate rivalry or even hate... Come on man... was it even necessary to say stuff like that? A problem has been found that customers aren't happy with, EVGA have responded to that problem, given a statement that the cards are operating within spec but offered customers an option to put customer's mind's at ease with a simple solution.

Fan boys ay. Nothing changes.... pathetic...

Strange still there are no comments from AMD-hysteric-fanboys crying how Nvidia is at fault here, or how "again" Nvidia ruined their cards\PCs\lives. Regardless it is not good when card manufacturers skip the usage of 1cent thermal pads... (manufacturers, not Nvidia.... AMD-fanboys, I note this specifically for you as your precious AMD-cards may also be affected one day)

Ok, I will bite: "EVGA has promptly re-titled their EVGA FTW 1080/1070 line to EVGA FTL 1080/1070..."

Strange still there are no comments from AMD-hysteric-fanboys crying how Nvidia is at fault here, or how "again" Nvidia ruined their cards\PCs\lives. Regardless it is not good when card manufacturers skip the usage of 1cent thermal pads... (manufacturers, not Nvidia.... AMD-fanboys, I note this specifically for you as your precious AMD-cards may also be affected one day)

:puke2: Now to dignify this with an actual response: Probably because this is EVGA specifically and not something nVidia did.

:puke2: Now to dignify this with an actual response: Probably because this is EVGA specifically and not something nVidia did.

well I disagree, Nvidia may not be directly to blame, but they have been tremendously aggressive with their GPU lifecycles lately. this could be having adverse affects on quality control from the vendors. reminds me of Samsung's issue with their phones lately...

It is Furmark and in extremely heavy conditions. Like, no games today can even achieve that stress enough on graphic cards. Besides that, i believe EVGA give 3 years warranty for their products.

I wonder if the card warranty is lost if people order the free thermal pads and remove the backplate and heatsink to install them. After all, they have tampered with the card at that point, which technically should serve as a justification for voiding the warranty.

I wonder if the card warranty is lost if people order the free thermal pads and remove the backplate and heatsink to install them. After all, they have tampered with the card at that point, which technically should serve as a justification for voiding the warranty.

The card is known to be faulty without checking it physically. Shouldn't be a problem.

Yes, it was. It was an honest surprise and a preemptive measure against AMD fanboys. Did you see the Thread regarding 1070 RAM issues? It got totally ruined and f***** by Nvidia-haters.

You act like NVidia users don't do the same **** in every AMD thread.... Seems like every AMD thread I go into, whether it's about GPUs or not, has instances of NVidia users attacking AMD.

EVGA was crap anyway :P

EVGA was crap anyway :P

Agreed...

Almost went for the 1070 SC. HH in his review of the card spotted higher than usual VRM temps with thermal imaging, and that was the reason I didnt go for it. http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/evga_geforce_gtx_1070_sc_superclocked_gaming_review,10.html

Will installing thermal pads void the warranty?

Nope.

Simple fix, remove heatsink and put Artic Silver heatsink compound on GPU and reinstall heatsink.

Simple fix, remove heatsink and put Artic Silver heatsink compound on GPU and reinstall heatsink.

Did you even read the post? VRMs are overheating not the core. Plus Arctic silver is low-tier crap now compared to the many better options.

I pre-ordered an EVGA GTX 1080 FTW back in June from Amazon although it was almost two months before it was finally delivered mid-August due to severe stock shortages here in the UK. Apart from a couple of black screens initially, which I put down at the time to over-ambitious overclocking attempts, the card continued to work for six weeks with no real issues. Then about two weeks ago, coincidentally at the same time as I installed the v373.06 driver, I started experiencing numerous black screens across a number of games; sometimes within 5 minutes of playing and other times after several hours or none at all. They could occur during gameplay or during pre-rendered cutscenes. At first I thought it might be a driver issue or even a bug in Windows 10 v1607 (I mean it has plenty, right?) but then I found a 40+ page thread on the EVGA forum from people experiencing the same issue. When the black screen occurs it is accompanied by the fans ramping up to 100%. The only thing I could do was restart my PC. I RMAed the card early last week and received my replacement on Friday. I had to use the Advanced RMA option otherwise I would have had to return my old card first before they would have shipped out a new one, which might have taken 1-2 weeks. As I did not have a spare graphics card to use I ended up having to pay an obnoxious collateral payment (refundable) of £722, which is £122 more than I paid for my card in the first place. As far as I can tell, EVGA have yet to post an official statement on the issue on their forum as a sticky and instead any information has to be found by wading through (currently) 45 pages of posts. It's ridiculous really. I have been using my card all weekend and so far, touch wood, it seems to be working fine (I hope I haven't tempted fate saying that...!!!). My previous card (now on its way back to EVGA so I can get my money back) would not overclock by more than +250 MHz on the VRAM but this new card seems to have no problems with +400 MHz. I suspect the issue may be have been due to the VRMs and VRAM overheating as at no point did the card's core overheat. I saw it heat 82 C during summer but with the default fan profile (which only spins at over 65 C) the temperatures are typically between 65 and 75 C with a fan speed of 30-40%. However, I was using a custom fan profile for the first two months of owning the card and it's telling that the black screen issue started happening shortly after I switched to the default profile. While I waited for my replacement to arrive I switched back to the custom fan profile and did not see the black screen issue again for three days before I swapped the card for the new one. I assume that my new card has the thermal pads fitted (at least I would hope so) but if this card develops the same fault again in two months then I will return the card to Amazon and ask for a full refund. I guess I've been lucky because I have been buying graphics card since 1998 and this is the first "bad" one that I've had.

P.S. I am really glad that websites such as Guru3D are reporting on this issue as it feels it needs to be out in the open if only to get EVGA to make an official statement on their forum and sticky it. They should also be replacing affected cards via the Advanced RMA option at NO extra cost. Asking their customers to lay out large amounts as collateral is just damn cheeky IMO, especially as the issue is down to a design flaw in the cards themselves that is no fault of the customer. My card was faulty from the day I bought it; it just took two months for the issue to make itself known.

P.S. I am really glad that websites such as Guru3D are reporting on this issue as it feels it needs to be out in the open if only to get EVGA to make an official statement on their forum and sticky it.

Agreed. Besides.. no love lost? 🙂

I actually waited so long for a GTX 1070 FTW review from Guru3D but it never arrived. I saw the SC review and I didn't like that hot spot one bit, but I figured since the VRM area is custom and the cooler looks different on the FTW, being more beefy that is, it wouldn't have the issue, I guess I was wrong. *sigh* I ordered my thermal pads... let's see if it brings those temps down.

Almost went for the 1070 SC. HH in his review of the card spotted higher than usual VRM temps with thermal imaging, and that was the reason I didnt go for it. http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/evga_geforce_gtx_1070_sc_superclocked_gaming_review,10.html

Yeah, same here. I saw his thermal images and decided against it.