I bought an EVGA FTW1080 and dissapointed in it at all. It has coil whine issue, the working temperatures is too high, and it cant reach stable 2088+ clocks, 2076 only with +100 voltage, but with additional voltage is heated much more and thtrottling to 2050. Why for that card has 10 phases, if the cooling system cand handle the stock clocks temperatures, GPU chips wasnt at quality controll, and it cant be OC'd at all? I'm dissapointed, really.
 
 And question - if i change the thermal paste (to liquid metal) - my warrianty be cancelled?
 
 

richurd, the deal is not only in sillicon lottery (but in the FTW version, i expected the better chip than in SC, ACX3.0 and FE versions of cards, if is not so, so that the differenes between FTW and SC?), the deal is in cooling solution! It cant handle OC! it going to 72 degreas in UNIGINE HEVEN, when the card not loaded at all, at stock clocks. And to stop temperatures growing at OC to 2050-2073 at 74 degree at Battlefield 4 - i was pusshed the coolers of card to 85%, and case fans to 100%. Terrible

veganfanatic, i have MX4, and i also have liquid metal. Last usually gives few degreas of difference with MX4

Scarlet-Tech
The FTW version has a larger power delivery system for more exotic cooling solutions.  The RGB is also included.  The Cores on the FE, the SCC, the FTW, the reference and all other cards are exactly the same cores, and are all met with the same limitations. 
 
You say the cooler is at fault.  72 degrees is not hot or even near the limit.  Every Pascal cards starts reducing clocks at 60c, and then slowly reduces up to the minimal boost clock advertised which is 1860.  You keep saying 2050 mhz.. the card is not advertised to run at that clock, so getting there is a good thing and you should be happy with it.  To get a better understanding of your system, you need to provide more details.  What case fans are you running, how many, are how many intake and how many exhaust, what CPU cooler are you using and is it adding to the heat in the case.  
 
The coil whine is frustrating and not good for your ears, but it does not hurt the card at all. 

+1
 
 
Welcome to the forums ATRedline
 
Need details of your PC build and Temps: CPU, GPU & room
 
OC is Not guaranteed
 
EVGA is the only GPU Mfg I know that warranty is no automatically void for pulling cooler.  However if you cause damage (like conductive TIM causing short / arch) the warranty will / can be voided.
 
Only use non-conductive TIM
 
Adding voltage to a GPU that is getting warm enough to throttle is self defeating
 
 

>You say the cooler is at fault.  72 degrees is not hot or even near the limit. 
72 degrees in Unigine Valley, its cant load card to 100%, but 77-79 in battledield 4 Singleplayer (may be more in multiplayer).
>Every Pascal cards starts reducing clocks at 60c, and then slowly reduces up to the minimal boost clock advertised which is 1860.
And this is most sadly. Some of other manufactures can doing the cooling systems, what can prevent temperature grooving after 70c, to prevent thermal trottling. I dont care, whats the limit of pascal, then i buy such card as FTW - i care only core clocks what i can reach, and the cooling system - the first thing what make abilyty for good OC. If i'll want to saw to thermalthrottling - i'll better get an FE version
 
>To get a better understanding of your system, you need to provide more details.  What case fans are you running, how many, are how many intake and how many exhaust, what CPU cooler are you using and is it adding to the heat in the case. 
its open stand, air conditioned room
 
>The coil whine is frustrating and not good for your ears, but it does not hurt the card at all.
Yep, but then i bought the card of 700eu price, and its make noise of coils - its very, very sad.
 

Cool GTX,
>Welcome to the forums ATRedline
Thanks :) Or, what should i say?)
>Need details of your PC build and Temps: CPU, GPU & room
Open stand, air conditioned room

 
>warm enough to throttle is self defeating
In pascal case, the adding of voltage allow the card to stay at higher boost on highter temps, for example, if i set +140 to core, than it takes 2114 by 60 to 70, and then reduce it to next level of boost. If i add the voltage to 100% (and the limit of coarse), then the card can stand 2114 to ~79 degrees, but it crashes because of my bad chip at 73-74d.

 
ganzosrevenge,
man, its the theory, and in the practice, the 10+2 "powerplant" of FTW - gives nothing to usual user. The most sad part of that story, what in the pascal, the most avaible for OC card - the cards with the good cooling solutions. Unfortunately, as i understand - FTW cooling solution - is not good. Then the bios editors will be avaible, then maybe the increasing of voltage can help to OC card to standart pascal 2100+ overcklocking level, but i cant increase the voltage on FTW, because of its weak cooling.

normal power limits in BIOS 1: 122%
normal power limits in BIOS 2: 130%
(In 1080 Classy)
 
Voltages: I'm not testing that... I'm chicken.

ganzosrevenge, can you dump the bios with 130% limit? Here is the screenshot how to do this:
rgho.st/88pvgKN7c.view
 
The last version of GPU-z:
techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

ATRedline
ganzosrevenge, can you dump the bios with 130% limit? Here is the screenshot how to do this:
rgho.st/88pvgKN7c.view
 
The last version of GPU-z:
techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

I will dump the BIOS as requested, but I take NO responsibility if your GPU bricks.  If that's OK, I'll do it.

Nö need to flash the classy Bios on an ftw - the 2nd Bios on the FTW also has a Power Target of 130%.

/Edit : Except if the voltage are different :>

ganzosrevenge
I uploaded it.

Hm, where is nothing in online database, strange. Maybe you can upload it to rgho.st?

Its been proven time and time again an open bench (even in an air conditioned room) does not cool as good as a case with good airflow. Even with AC the heat will only dissipate rather than be blow off and away from the system. I would suggest placing a fan to blow the hot air away from the GPU.

I continued my tryings to overclock my FTW, today i'm tried to use EVGA PrecisionX, and with what soft it takes 2114 and more, with same options i used in MSI Afterburner, but with manual voltage graphic. Dont understand what the differences, but with precisionX it works at the same clock/voltage/power as MSI Afterburnier, but with afterburner driver crashes