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I bought one without knowing about any of this. Now that I have educated myself on this issue it appears to me that catastrophic failure may have been due to bad MOSFETS. I think the statement EVGA has given about the card being perfectly fine to use even without the pads is true. So if you put pads on the heat will not be an issue. Also, the Micron memory issue affecting many brands of 1070/1080 models has been fixed in bios updates as far as I know. You should be safe to buy one. Also remember you are getting a 3 year warranty instead of 1 year with Founders Edition. (Although I know none of us enjoy doing an RMA)

• 1607MHz Base Clock
• 1733MHz Boost Clock
• 257.1GT/s Texture Fill Rate
• 8192MB GDDR5X Memory
• 10000MHz Memory Clock
• 320GB/s Memory Bandwidth

Salem13

UmutC
Hello,
I'm a watercooling enthusiast and I have some leftover thermal pads. I was thinking to buy EVGA GTX 1080 FTW ACX 3.0, but the recent news made me doubt it.
If I buy it, I can put thermal pads on VRMs and use the card like that. Is it safe to buy it despite the recent problems? Are there any problems other than the lack of VRM thermal pads?
Or should I forget about this card and go look for another brand? Thanks.

If you are going to water-cool I believe and quite frankly hope, you will be OK with a FTW water block.

You will be having contact cooling across all of the heat effected areas. :D

This issue, as I , a layman and enthusiast believe is involved in the cooling of the simple plate spreader?

That part of the ACX 3.0 is replaced entirely with the likes of the EK block... I do however question adding more pads between the card and back plate?

mikenogo

Sajin
The thermal pads aren't required. Yes, it's safe to buy.

Lies. Seriously if you think this is a proper answer to your question then by all means risk yourself to burning the rest of your pc and probably your house as well.

mikenogo
Lies. Seriously if you think this is a proper answer to your question then by all means risk yourself to burning the rest of your pc and probably your house as well.

Akwrath
After a few hours of reading all of this. It seems like a few "rare" circumstances are causing every EVGA owner to flood to the forums and want a thermal mod or new card.
 
I requested my thermal mod and have not had the card long enough to have known of issues. As of like a week ago, all i read was amazing reviews on the 1080 GTX FTW edition so i bought it.
 
Now that there is this problem with VRM after running an insane program for hours - here we are.
 
I gave it thought - submitted a ticket to see if EVGA will do me a favor and ship me a new card and I return my old. We will see what happens.
 

Akwrath

arestavo
 
 
If your card was sent out from EVGA prior to Sept. 1st (I forget the exact date, somewhere around 31 Aug) then it can be RMAd for one that has the thermal pads already applied - or you can request the thermal pads from EVGA and add them yourself if you want to save time.
 
http://www.evga.com/thermalmod/
 
Edit: And yes, there is a reason why Furmark is blacklisted within Nvidia drivers - it's an unrealistic load, and running it for extended periods really is stupid.

My card was shipped out 9/21/16. Does that mean the thermal pad has been applied? I would love to see what it looks like so i can check my GPU after work.