Vayra86
The nature of component degradation is that failure occurs over extended periods of time, not instantly. It is also a fact that the VRM area gets hotter than it ideally should, and increased degradation of the GDDR5 next to it is almost a given. Users can experience problems later in the lifespan of the card because currently its a lot of GPU horsepower and not everyone needs it all today. Add a bit of age and dust... If it already affects 3-4% right after release, check back in a year's time and you can probably double that number. Those thermal pads for *all* users are not there without reason, and as I gathered will also be added to new products from now on - that alone says it all.

NucleusX
I totally understand the OP's concerns. Its a bit hard not to be concerned after witnessing EVGA getting hammered
with endless forum posts of failures and RMA's. The failures themselves  arn't all that varied, and mostly the same
kind of failures are reported. Its at a point now where ppl are losing their consumer faith in EVGA over this new
Pascal series with all these similar reports. It has some thinking that there's something fundamentally wrong with
with EVGA's design, and even tho nothing has happened yet to their hardware, the paranoia is there because of
how the faults manifests themselves from ongoing use over time. Heat related problems can't be timed to an
exact science, but its common knowledge that heat will kill electronics given enough time and intensity. Yeh
EVGA might be great at having your back, but that does nothing to bolster my faith in their Pascal engineering.

jarablue

NucleusX
I totally understand the OP's concerns. Its a bit hard not to be concerned after witnessing EVGA getting hammered
with endless forum posts of failures and RMA's. The failures themselves  arn't all that varied, and mostly the same
kind of failures are reported. Its at a point now where ppl are losing their consumer faith in EVGA over this new
Pascal series with all these similar reports. It has some thinking that there's something fundamentally wrong with
with EVGA's design, and even tho nothing has happened yet to their hardware, the paranoia is there because of
how the faults manifests themselves from ongoing use over time. Heat related problems can't be timed to an
exact science, but its common knowledge that heat will kill electronics given enough time and intensity. Yeh
EVGA might be great at having your back, but that does nothing to bolster my faith in their Pascal engineering.

Guess what? If the card dies for any reason, evga will replace it and more than likely cross ship it for no cost. No bull huh? The card is covered 100%. Are we that impatient in this day and age that we can't wait a three or four days for a brand new card to show up at our door?
 
I mean really?? EVGA, we will always buy your stuff cause we know you come through when we need it.
 
Thanks.

NetQvist

jarablue

NucleusX
I totally understand the OP's concerns. Its a bit hard not to be concerned after witnessing EVGA getting hammered
with endless forum posts of failures and RMA's. The failures themselves  arn't all that varied, and mostly the same
kind of failures are reported. Its at a point now where ppl are losing their consumer faith in EVGA over this new
Pascal series with all these similar reports. It has some thinking that there's something fundamentally wrong with
with EVGA's design, and even tho nothing has happened yet to their hardware, the paranoia is there because of
how the faults manifests themselves from ongoing use over time. Heat related problems can't be timed to an
exact science, but its common knowledge that heat will kill electronics given enough time and intensity. Yeh
EVGA might be great at having your back, but that does nothing to bolster my faith in their Pascal engineering.

Guess what? If the card dies for any reason, evga will replace it and more than likely cross ship it for no cost. No bull huh? The card is covered 100%. Are we that impatient in this day and age that we can't wait a three or four days for a brand new card to show up at our door?
 
I mean really?? EVGA, we will always buy your stuff cause we know you come through when we need it.
 
Thanks.

 
Thing is that when you have a GPU you can't trust it pretty much ruins gaming, I went through 1 month of hell with a EVGA 1080 FTW because of the issues it had.
 
After this I'd much rather have bad customer support and a good product at this point so I never have to get in touch with customer support in the first place! Also I really want to know the return rates on say EVGA FTW cards compared to Asus STRIX or MSI Gaming ones but I haven't been able to find any publicly since the big retailer here which exposes them doesn't sell EVGA products.

hapkiman
I'm curious what you have there.