dwaintr

emsir

dwaintr
"Worked great for a day, then started having problems. Screen artifacts, flickering, crashes. Seems to be the same problem that many others are having. I considered an RMA, but opted for a refund through Amazon after seeing the many reports of people getting refurb replacements, at least one with minor damage. Not acceptable for such a high end card."
 
This is a recent comment on Amazon.com
 
I'm very confused. This guy should have bought a card from the new batch and I don't understand how this guy is still experiencing problems. Is there a production defects on these 1080 FTW cards? Is Vbios update and thermal pad application is just to reduce the effects of the problems of the defected products? 
 
I read a lot of comments in Turkey and a lot of users believe that this card has a production defects, and if EVGA hasn't changed the card's design, then the card still has all of the previous problems.
 
Here is another comment I read on Youtube. "They should change the whole heatsink with a new one that adds not only thermal pad but a solid one that really makes full contact with the heatsink, not only the side of the fins. All they are doing is sending owners (per request) some thermal pads that manage to drive away some heat from the affected area on both sides of the GPU, it even makes the back-plate work as a passive heat-sink." 
 
What do you think guys? Can any EVGA member explain it?

Don't believe in everything you see on youtube. And Turkey? Can you read Turkish???   What's your point....... Where did you see these many reports??? Please provide some links and confirmation.
Post a link to Amazon with comments. EVGA does not send refurbished cards to customers. Post some documentation with pictures that shows the cards are refurbished and some with minor damage.
If you can't provide these things your post is just made up to keep the discussion alive. I don't believe a word you wrote. It's rubbish!

1st, I'm turkish. I read turkish discussion forums.
2nd, you can check Amazon's reviews and as I said that review was one of the recent reviews you can directly find it in less than 15 seconds on the reviews page.
I don't remember on which Youtube video I saw the other comments, it's been days since I wrote this message. I didn't come here to show you proof of what I wrote. I'm one of the new EVGA customers who bought his first EVGA product which is a 1080 GTX FTW and I haven't opened the box because I'll be opening it when I get back to Turkey. So before I go back to Turkey, I wanted to make sure that I did the right thing buying this product from EVGA. And what I did is very normal to me. I'm trying to get many people's opinions, hear their experiences etc.. But finally, I send an email to EVGA regarding my concerns and I had a quite satisfying answer from them explaining what was wrong, how it was fixed etc. So now, I don't care whatever it is written in anywhere. 
 
Ok buddy?

No no, you got it wrong. If you have some info and you know where to find on Amazon about the refurbished thing and damaged card being send from EVGA, it's quite easy to post these comments and links. Now you can't remember where you saw these comments on Youtube......and now you suddenly don't care what is written??
So one can conclude your first post was wrong and now you are happy........ OMG!
And by the way, I'm not your buddy.

emsir

dwaintr
"Worked great for a day, then started having problems. Screen artifacts, flickering, crashes. Seems to be the same problem that many others are
 .....
manage to drive away some heat from the affected area on both sides of the GPU, it even makes the back-plate work as a passive heat-sink." 
 What do you think guys? Can any EVGA member explain it?

....
EVGA does not send refurbished cards to customers. Post some documentation with pictures that shows the cards are refurbished and some with minor damage.
If you can't provide these things your post is just made up to keep the discussion alive. I don't believe a word you wrote. It's rubbish!

 
Emsir I get this answer from evga:

EVGA Support Email

...., thank you for contacting the EVGA Customer Service Team. My name is Markus Kaesbauer and I will answer your question today.

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Your Answer:

Hi,
thanks for the detailed request - those GPU´s are brandly new \ re-worked products, no worries - mostly the only difference would be, not sealed and not within the original package, as due the RMA process we are using different packages,
Please let us know if we can further assist,
Have a nice day,
Regards,"
 
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So yes, maybe the card is either new or either refurbished, it's 50 - 50 what they send.

emsir
 
No. Nothing in the answer from EVGA tell you that they send refurbished cards. The only difference from brandly new and reworked cards are MOLSTLY  not sealed and not within the original package, as due the RMA process we are using different packages. 

You know what reworked cards are, right? Reworked cards are cards with updated VBios and the Thermal mod. And Brandly new cards are.....brand new!

If it is not refurbished, then they will write only brandly new and no brand new/re-worked. You wrote yourself some of the conditions of re-worked cards vbios, thermal mod (but there aren't only these include and others fixed problems) that intervene the technicians of evga to fix it, it's NOT brand new.....
 
The cards that they recieve from rma are the future reworked cards ( they check, clean, add pads and fix if had other problem) and send to the customer.
So at your opinion the brand new/reworked are new, for me reworked are refurbished/used card.
Brand new is a card which is made correct with pads etc. from the factory and sealed at original box.

There is misunderstanding because I don't make clear what rma I talked

emsir
You don't understand how things work in a business. You think that if a customer send a RMA product because of updating the VBIOS and the thermal mod, he/she will get a brand new card in return.

 
The above answer I get from evga it concerns about the advanced rma procedure/scenario. 
Because they don't give me at first a clear answer and after a lots emails they write me about brand new/reworked card.
For the simple rma they recieve, fix the problem and send back the same card (if could fix).
As you write there a lots of scenarios and the conditions of problems, Evga accordingly will move.
 
Have happy holidays and new year.

 
 

Is there any update or pads needed for a 03G-P4-6160-KR EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GAMING

ilyama
 
Thanks for the information, it seems that there is some problems for all brands for this generation...

I read Zotac, Asus, MSI, Gigabyte, Asus...
Not sure if all is true of course :D
 
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/...oded_and_rma_rejected/
 
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/522bzy/anyone_else_had_a_1080_explode_on_them/?st=ix6exj5s&sh=6a4932b5
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/...6exj5s&sh=6a4932b5
 

Well, then. That settles it, the 1070 is cursed.

I risked the fan issues with ASUS. With rebates it was the best looking, fastest and cheapest 1070 on the market. Will advise if I experience any problems with it.

Everyone, when posting please respect the forum member's post even if you disagree with them. We've had some complaints so those posts off topic or far too argumentative will be edited or deleted from this thread.

Paulo Elias
I would like to share if I may a recent experience I had with my GTX 1080 SC and Windows 10:
 
I already reported in a previous posting that I had on occasion a double cold startup in my PC. Briefly, turning on the system after POST Windows starts to load, after a few seconds the screen goes blank and a second cold boot starts, albeit slightly slower.
 
I tested every single piece of hardware except for the power supply. The EVGA support staff referred to the blank screen episode to be a graphics card related issue. I had the 1080 installed since the end of October.
 
What I found out by using the trial and error experimentation method was that disabling Windows 10's Fast Startup stops the double cold boot and the blank screen from turning up.
 
So far, no explanation was found by me about the effects of this change. It is nevertheless possible that the Windows 10's anniversary update has a bug in the algorithm that covers for example a driver that is not fully compatible.
 
My system is now under proper scrutiny but it seems that the blank screen issue is now gone. In which case a RMA for my card is being discarded.
 
I hope that my findings may help anyone with the same issue.

If your power is totally removed from your PC and you have a fresh startup the PC might power up then down for a second or two and power back up. This is actually normal. This happens when my X99 starts from a cold power on. If I keep the PC plugged into power then I don't have this.

Hello.
My pads have the status:Request Shipped 11/28/2016 (Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery).
But until now, no one in Russia doesn't get it.
What do we do?
Happiness New Year!

Hello everyone,
 
I hope everyone had a happy holidays! I bought my EVGA GTX 1070 FTW back in October and didn't come across this thread or any of the overheating reports until recently. Although I had EVGA Precision installed, I never really monitored my temperatures. Just recently I've gotten into overclocking and although I've just been working on my CPU/RAM, I've finally been monitoring temperature through my benchmarking runs. I've noticed that my card idles at about 45-50C (Room is about 22C, HWinfo shows temperatures around the case at approximately 30C) and during WoW and CS:GO it runs about 75-80C on load. From what I've been reading here that seems to be on the high end of temperatures.
 
I've been using the EVGA Precision aggressive fan curve so my fans are always on, and are at 80-90% while gaming. Will I see any noticeable differences with the VBIOS update? Also, I'm never uncomfortable opening up my card to apply the thermal pads. I saw on the thermal mod website that you can RMA if you cannot install the VBIOS yourself but doesn't say anything about the thermal pads (I understand they are optional).
 
Although I don't feel like my gaming has been hindered by these high temperatures I was hoping that my GPU fans didn't have to be running at almost max speed any time I turned on a game.
 
Am I overreacting and these temperatures are normal or can I RMA this card since I'm not comfortable with the thermal pad install? I've checked the serial number and the model is covered and it doesn't look like the card came with the pads or the VBIOS update.

shinmoon
Hello everyone,
 
I hope everyone had a happy holidays! I bought my EVGA GTX 1070 FTW back in October and didn't come across this thread or any of the overheating reports until recently. Although I had EVGA Precision installed, I never really monitored my temperatures. Just recently I've gotten into overclocking and although I've just been working on my CPU/RAM, I've finally been monitoring temperature through my benchmarking runs. I've noticed that my card idles at about 45-50C (Room is about 22C, HWinfo shows temperatures around the case at approximately 30C) and during WoW and CS:GO it runs about 75-80C on load. From what I've been reading here that seems to be on the high end of temperatures.
 
I've been using the EVGA Precision aggressive fan curve so my fans are always on, and are at 80-90% while gaming. Will I see any noticeable differences with the VBIOS update? Also, I'm never uncomfortable opening up my card to apply the thermal pads. I saw on the thermal mod website that you can RMA if you cannot install the VBIOS yourself but doesn't say anything about the thermal pads (I understand they are optional).
 
Although I don't feel like my gaming has been hindered by these high temperatures I was hoping that my GPU fans didn't have to be running at almost max speed any time I turned on a game.
 
Am I overreacting and these temperatures are normal or can I RMA this card since I'm not comfortable with the thermal pad install? I've checked the serial number and the model is covered and it doesn't look like the card came with the pads or the VBIOS update.

Would like to know that too. The temps of my 1070 SC stay around 38ºC idle and 60º full load. They're OK, but the VRM temps, where the problem is, aren't measurable through monitoring. According to some articles, where they used that digital thermometer, the VRM temps on high load are around 20 degrees higher than in GPU, so if I'm getting 80 degrees on it, it's kinda OK, right? Wondering if the thermal mod is really necessary in my case.

MarcusOW
Hello everybody,
I have a question about updating firmware of a evga gtx1080 ftw.
Gpu-z says that the version of bios is 86.04.3b.00.84.
The card is already updated or not?
Thank you

Check this list for latest VBIOS updates by vendor: https://www.techpowerup.c...emSize=8192&since=
 
Find your card, and on the right side click details to view what the update offers.

Update tool did not update bios on my bottom 1080 ftw...

Just got my 6GB 1060 FTW+. Do I need the bios update also? My P/N is 06G-P4-6368-KR

Downloaded and tried the BIOS update.  It's not working.  All I get is a quick DOS window saying the flash will start, then the screen goes blank and then comes back up with a low resolution.  After restarting, I get the same low res screen and when Precision tries to start, it says "No supported hardware".  
 
I then have to re-install the video driver to get it back to working, but the BIOS on the video card is unchanged according to the Nvidia Control Panel.
 
I've manually changed the fan profile in Precision to keep the fan running and ramp up faster, but my two GTX 1080 Classifieds do not seem to be running all that warm according to the monitor in Precision.  When running 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra, the warmer of the two cards shows a temp of 60-62 deg. C.
 
According to Precision, the BIOS on my cards stays at 86.04.17.00.80.