Hello,
After upgrading to the new vbios and putting on the thermal pads I noticed a 25-30% degradation in frames in games, forexample, on a 1080p monitor, precision x and Nvidia overlay display approx 95-105 fps on Bf 1 and low demanding games like league of legends see a huge interval of around 120-270 frames. Prior to doing physical upgrade on the card, bf 1 saw around 140-150 frames whereas league had a stable 250-300 frames.

Is there any explanation as to why this is?? Anyone else experiencing this?
Maybe I applied too much thermal paste or dinged a part of the card?

Thank you.

bcavnaugh
Welcome to the Forum
As you made the above changes did you also change the Graphics Drivers?
You have not posted any Temperatures!

The drivers are up to date and I am idling at 34 degreess and see up to 73 degrees in Bf1 and 54 degrees in league of legends. The driver updates where done before the installation of the pads.

Im not too familiar with what the temperatures should be at but according to gamersnexus report it shows somewhere around the 20 degrees range at idle using thermal probes whereas I'm looking at temperatures through the precision software.
Thanks

Both mine are under water and idle temp is 27 - 29. I watched that Vid by gamernexus and I thought they said a 20 degree drop when doing the thermal pad mod and bios update.
I could be mistaken since my mind is focused on turkey.....

Have you used DDU? It's free and a VERY good tool for uninstalling video drivers. It's a very good step to take when you're having video issues.
 
http://www.wagnardsoft.co...94079dec95b7e766c4e684
 
When presented with the option window, choose Safe Mode. Your computer will reboot to safe mode and DDU will open. Make sure Nvidia drivers are selected, and choose Clean. Your computer will restart, and now you can install the driver version of your choice and test again.
 
 

So I finished the DDU and the reinstallation of the most recent drivers, still seeing the lowered frame rates.

Is there any chance that I may have messed up the internals a tiny bit during installation of the pads? Or excess of thermal paste? Just seems very unlikely that the drivers are causing this since the frames before and after installations decreased on the same driver.

Thanks for the help.

The only thing I've done to the card is vbios and the thermal pads so far, it is running on clock speeds.

Same here man. My original 1080 FTW stopped working so EVGA sent me a new one with thermal pads and the new BIOS. My new card runs at 50-60 MHz higher clocks and the temps are 30 C degrees lower but somehow the card performs a lot WORSE. I've tried a bunch of things but haven't found an answer yet. 
 
Here's a link a to my thread if you are curious:
http://forums.evga.com/Ne...ce-m2584626.aspx 
 

baconinabun

IchigoSoulReaper
Same here man. My original 1080 FTW stopped working so EVGA sent me a new one with thermal pads and the new BIOS. My new card runs at 50-60 MHz higher clocks and the temps are 30 C degrees lower but somehow the card performs a lot WORSE. I've tried a bunch of things but haven't found an answer yet. 
 
Here's a link a to my thread if you are curious:
http://forums.evga.com/Ne...ce-m2584626.aspx 
 

 
i do like the final post in that thread "Does anybody else have the Windows 10 anniversary update?" lol i would have thought everyone and their uncle would be using it and onto further versions than that 
 
 
you tried downclocking the gpu? -50 or -60? on XOC mine put the voltage slider on left side to 100% unlink power target and temp target 

I have not tried downclocking it in the negatives. Surely that can't increase performance though? Stock/default at 0 is the lowest clock I've tried. With the voltage, my last one was always on default as well so I've left it that way mostly. I did try 100% with no improvement. My power target is at 130% and my temp target is at 92 C. I can go that high because I use slave mode on the GPU. I did also try master mode at 120%/91 C with no improvement. 
 
I'll keep an eye out on this thread. I'm curious to see if you find any fix. 

I posted my performance on my EVGA GTX 1070 FTW ACX 3.x cooler, on the 63rd page of the VBIOS update thread.   The O.P. might find the read interesting.