For me it would mean a refund of 20 euros !

I vote +1 !!! 
 
This would be THE PROOF for all customers I think... But we cleary can only dream about it 

So if I send my GTX 1080 SC back to you guys, you can send me one with thermal pads and the new VBIOS installed?

EVGATech_ChrisB
Hi WebTourist,
 
I am sorry to hear that you are not confident with your product.  I assure you that we have tested these products and they are within the spec .  Please see our FAQ section at:  http://www.evga.com/thermalmod/ 
 
However, if you are concerned with your product then we are offering to work with our customers to exchange their product for one with the VBIOS installed from the factory if that is preferred.  Please just contact our support if you do want help with this.  http://www.evga.com/about/contactus/ 

Are they still within spec running in a SLI setup? If they are already marginally within spec, SLI will almost certainly lead to catastrophic failure. Nobody (yet) has investigated how likely this is to compound the existing VRM and VRAM overheating issues. This is a very serious concern.

ilyama
 
But we cleary can only dream about it 

 
This will not be a precedent. 
A year ago we got +2 years extended warranty. Free.
http://eu.evga.com/articl...FREE-5-Years-Warranty/
This promotion is more important now for the GTX 1080/GTX 1070.
Evga must show that they believe in the quality of 1080/1070 as in quality of 980/970.
 
Regards

WhatGravitas
At least you can pick up the extended warranty. Bought my 1070 FTW 28th July... meaning the moment the 90-day window for extended warranty lapsed for me, all of this crops up.

 
I completely agree, would be a sign that all is well and trust their products but I think this series will lose the fame that had so far with the guarantees.

Must admit that I tend to agree with this. Thinking about it, if nothing goes wrong with the cards in the relevant warranty period, then this would cost EVGA nothing in reality to do. Especially when you consider that most (obviously not all) PC enthusiast don't tend to keep their cards much more than 2 years anyway (think my average is 18 months).
 
Though remember guys, unless they make special provision, the extended warranty is "not transferable" (IE. only the stock 3 year warranty is).

WebTourist, Agreed. This is my First EVGA Graphics Card. Purchased about 40 days ago...just past the 30 days to return to Amazon. The black screens I have encountered with this card has NOT instilled confidence. A Free Extended Warranty would at least provide confidence that EVGA does value its customers by standing by its products. I am also a bit offended by EVGA's request for Free Labor to install these thermal pads (yes I understand there is a cross shipping offer). As it stands now, I am very unlikely to make a future EVGA purchase.

A month ago  I ordered Evga 1060 FTW for my frend and was even worse.
After 15 minutes BF4 it passed 80 degrees and I sent it back to the caseking.

I dont understand how he manages to have temperatures like this with 90% fans... 

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ilyama
I dont understand how he manages to have temperatures like this with 90% fans... 

Its FurMark which totally taxes the GPU to the max

Which is why it is an unrealistic benchmark

Yet the Founder Edition reference designs are having no such issues what so ever. I'm pretty happy I went with the card I did, avoiding all these thermal, fan, and memory issues. Geez, I don't know how so many things could of been done wrong on these aftermarket version cards.
I would of sent my card back already if I purchased a SC/FTW card, and trust me, I almost went with the FTW version because of their history of monster/stable OC's. I have owned several SC/FTW version cards in my day, no problems except for the fans on the ACX version cards use to make way too much noise at high rpm(770 SC ACX SLI). From now on I stick to reference designs/radial cooling fans.

+1 and I think it will make a very very good lesson for EVGA so I will buy EVGA again...

I'm still thinking that others brands will not do anything in that case because the products works well in normal conditions...

Can you make some tests WITHOUT pads and ingame only ? I think nobody with pads will be worry about something...
But for those who wont put the pads, some tests from you would be a great idea !!!

BF1, GTA V for example... dont care about furmark just want to see VRM temperatures ingame with different curve fan...

I just want proofs that there is no problem at all if I use a good fan curve ;)

I already do know that but proofs are the best way to argue against someone who say "this is the end of the world, all evga are gonna explode..."

Well at the very least EVGA could lift that 90 day window so people could buy that extended warranty if they missed out and feel uneasy with the entire deal.  
(i'm honestly not 100% sure that heat is the reason, if there was just a bad batch of VRMs or other components that we don't know about then this thermal pad thing might be a complete placebo.)  
 
Just for perspective, in Germany (where i am), Zotac has a 5 year warranty for FREE (3 years in the US), and Gigabyte has 4 year warranty on all GTX 10xx Series cards, if i want 5 year warranty from EVGA i have to pay 25€ extra? and i can't transfer the extended warranty if i sell the card in that time?    
...does not really sound that competitive of an offer, i was honestly surprised to find out that it did cost money at all, i thought i would just have to register my card within 90 days and the 5 year warranty would be free, well NOPE, somehow none of the reviews i've seen talked about that.  
 
And the "Step Up Program" is also limited to 90 days (and even more, limited to specific cards? not even including my 1080 FTW !?), which means that i can't step up to a 1080ti when that is released... because those aren't released within 90 days, i hear January ... not that i was planning too, would have been a nice option though.  
And not to a Classified or the watercooled one either... because mine isn't on the list.  
...so NONE of that stuff even applies to me.  
 
To put the icing on the cake, i bought my 1080 FTW too early and did not get into that Gears of War 4 promotion, did buy the game myself.  
 
...and THEN this nightmare with the Thermal Pads (why isn't there a heatpipe on all the stuff that needs cooling anyway? others have a heatpipe on their VRMs... the hell? you can be sure next time i'll take a closer look to the underside of the Heatsink of the next gen cards before i buy another GPU)  
...still waiting for those Thermal Pads btw. it's been 2 Weeks now and counting.