Not to mince words, but a public statement a companies employees can greatly be regarded as true statements. Especially when they identify themselves as such. Lying would put the company in serious jeopardy regarding lawsuits and reputation loss. This is the ma I need reason it takes so long for them to comment about these issues in the first place. They must ensure that they have their facts straight. Many so called news sites don't have such restrictions. They pay their writers very little, if they even have actual staff writers, and usually only care about views for ads. Reputable sites get caught up in this too, which is why certain sites need to be taken with a large bag of salt.

I personally ran my 1080FTW on kboost at 2ghz for most a week to test out its folding skills. My backplate measured close to 60C the entire time and airflow through the cooler is limited by the 970 below it in the case . If this was real problem in design, my card would have been hosed. Plenty of folders in the forums run these cards 24/7 as well for folding. We would have expected seen real reports from these folks as folding is more intensive use of a gpus resources than most games.

But in the end, do what you want. Either be happy with the evga card or buy another. Real chances of failure are similar no matter what brand you buy.

ilyama
For the moment, it's only 2 owners who had an issue with their graphic card no ? 

I do recall One Thread Here showing us some Photos of a card that shorted out.

I've opened up this thread as I said before due to past experiences, not with EVGA but with XFX. At the time I was sure that my card was faulty due to constant blacks screens and freezes and their RMA wasn't too helpful by pointing the problem to be originating from my motherboard.
 
I kept telling the company that the problem but fell down on deaf ears. After sometime when I had posted it for another RMA they confirmed that it was faulty but couldn't do anything cause the warranty was expired. 
 
I'm not saying that this would be the same treatment I would get from EVGA but past experiences like this can make you sour and preemptively strike at the heart of the problem, and that is why in this case I have asked the supplier to change it for me.
 
Agree or disagee, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

No, that is exactly not what I am saying. I know of three cases. All three documented here on the forums.

http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GTX-1070-FTW-Suddenly-black-screen-and-sparkle-inside-the-case-m2571151.aspx
http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-1080-FTW-Caught-fire-with-some-parts-exploding-m2558654.aspx
http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2566133

What 3 or 4 Cards out of a Few Thousand Cards.
Some of them images posted are also from the net and are not from the member who posted them, thought you should know.

Use it on a new tab instead of this one.

Angier_1985
Use it on a new tab instead of this one.

i did but doesnt change.. keeps redirect me here

Poliacido

Angier_1985
Use it on a new tab instead of this one.

i did but doesnt change.. keeps redirect me here

Go to the EVGA website of YOUR REGION/ COUNTRY and try from there, it's not a hidden web address. Choose  SUPPORT> GUEST RMA> enter in your serial number.

wirerogue
i've had my ftw dt for a couple of months now and i still suck at overwatch.
 
can i get an rma for that? 
 
 

EVGATech_RayH
Personally I am not sure where the reports are coming from. All of the techs here at EVGA are concerned when our cards develop any issues, we are all owners of the cards ourselves. We understand completely customer concerns, and I fully expect that as this develops we will have more information to present.

Websites mostly, and the Tom's Hardware report in particular.
 
Those infra-red images and the big numbers attached to them made people take notice.  It's then easy to link any issue/fault with that, even if it probably isn't. 
 
An eVGA rep has come out and said the test run by T/H wasn't valid, as it isn't recommended, and eVGA have done their own testing with more accurate probes, but that is just words in a bigger news story.
 
eVGA should, on it's website, publish these results in a similar form to what people see on tech review sites.  In an information vacuum, there will be plenty of rumour and opinion to fill the void.  You can see this already.
 
Paradoxically, eVGA offering the thermal pads, will just confirm in some minds that there is a real problem here.
 
What people would also have noticed on the testing (irrespective of whether it recommended or not, or its real-world or not) is that the eVGA cards recorded temps 20-30 deg C (IIRC) higher than the other brands tested.  That suggests ACX 3.0 is an inferior cooling solution, compared to others.   It may well be adequate, but that will shift perceptions.
 
I don't consider myself to be much prone to knee-jerk reactions, but I'm considering returning my 1070 FTW for a refund - i don't think it's going to explode and burn my house down, but, all things being equal, the hotter running card is more likely to encounter issues than a cooler one. 

EVGATech_RayH
Personally I am not sure where the reports are coming from. All of the techs here at EVGA are concerned when our cards develop any issues, we are all owners of the cards ourselves. We understand completely customer concerns, and I fully expect that as this develops we will have more information to present. As it stands right now if there was a serious issue with the cards we would have a huge number of customers contacting us about their cards failing and having caught fire, I have yet to see a valid case of this. For 10 series cards we are currently offering additional thermal pads for the cards, but these are entirely optional and not needed to improve the stability or performance or lifespan of the cards. We are offering the pads as a gesture of good will to our customers to make the cards run even cooler than they do at present. We take the customer concerns very seriously, if you are having any issues with your card then please do not hesitate to contact us.

You guys need to stop using this line.
It begs the question why you didn't try to make the cards as cool as possible the first time round. That's one of the reasons we paid the big money for the card.
I guess that is the "oversight" that was mentioned.

EVGATech_RayH
Personally I am not sure where the reports are coming from. All of the techs here at EVGA are concerned when our cards develop any issues, we are all owners of the cards ourselves. We understand completely customer concerns, and I fully expect that as this develops we will have more information to present. As it stands right now if there was a serious issue with the cards we would have a huge number of customers contacting us about their cards failing and having caught fire, I have yet to see a valid case of this. For 10 series cards we are currently offering additional thermal pads for the cards, but these are entirely optional and not needed to improve the stability or performance or lifespan of the cards. We are offering the pads as a gesture of good will to our customers to make the cards run even cooler than they do at present. We take the customer concerns very seriously, if you are having any issues with your card then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Seriously ? not one case from many examples are considered valid ? I find that hard to believe. So your saying those people's RMA requests where denied ?

Guys, when I bought in 2012 an Asrock Mobo everyone told me it will die in maximum 3 years because of cheap capacitors. I sold it last year and now it still works perfectly. But, I had 2 kits of Kingston RAM with 99 years warranty which died. Nobody believes me about this story. More than this, I owned a top of the line Seasonic PSU which was replaced in warranty after 2 years (X series 1050W). What I want to say: every vendor has its problems and if you RMA a video card only based on what you read on the internet you are basicly not solving anything. I just googled "GTX 1070 exploding" and found on a forum a problem about a MSI Pascal card.
For me it is enough if EVGA informed me that all the cards shipped after 30.08 are fine, more than this, I trust more an EVGA card manufactured after this incident than other vendors... And my PC was also 5000 EUR if I make a sum. You find specs in my signature (PSU was replaced with Corsair, as well as RAM).

As far as I understood 30.08 was the last batch with some faulty VRM where is a chance of 4% to have problems (malfunction, black screen).
Mine are from 5.09 and I never had 1 black screen or other problem. I overclocked the cards and everything seems fine.