costersall
I just got my RMA replacement in Canada and it was a brand new sealed box and like posted before the only difference was plastic packing instead of foam. Played 3 hours or so of Rise of the tomb raider and so far so good. No idea about coil whine, not that I have noticed.

Glad to hear! Cheers! Happy gaming! Wishing you the best!

maxheadroom101
2nd RMA arrived today. Initial observations are hopeful. Its a new card in a sealed box.
Serial number is higher:
Original: #1884
1st RMA: #2388
2nd RMA: #3995
 
Those diagonal-spaced chips visible through the backplate are a higher number
Original: 65k
1st RMA: 66k
2nd RMA: 67k 
 
I'll plug it in tonight and come back with any findings. Fingers crossed!

Just picked up two 1080FTW:s with 68k on this chips. Serial is over #4040 on them both.
 

I received my RMA card yesterday. It is a brand new one. It came in its original box with all the bundle. I've been trying it a little bit and no problem yet.
 
Serial# 4009
 
 

I had to RMA my 2 hour old FTW because of strange artifacts on POST that takes 5 minutes to boot, and when it does boot the driver can't detect the FTW. When it doesn't boot up, I either see the black screen or artifacts dancing around the screen. tried on other PCs and same symptoms.
 
the RGB LED luminates nicely though.
 

tm95ern

maxheadroom101
2nd RMA arrived today. Initial observations are hopeful. Its a new card in a sealed box.
Serial number is higher:
Original: #1884
1st RMA: #2388
2nd RMA: #3995
 
Those diagonal-spaced chips visible through the backplate are a higher number
Original: 65k
1st RMA: 66k
2nd RMA: 67k 
 
I'll plug it in tonight and come back with any findings. Fingers crossed!

Just picked up two 1080FTW:s with 68k on this chips. Serial is over #4040 on them both.
 

good luck!

Update:
Hey guys, said I would update,
 
Sucks to still see people getting problems with their FTW (strange artifacts etc). Got word from Amazon today, they have finally refunded my 3rd rma 1080 FTW.
My MSI 1080 arrive today and I couldn't be happier. Been running the Heaven bench for a while to make sure no 100%+BS (FTW lasted 15min on all 3 cards), happy to report no issues so far.
 
I also got the card to overclock +160 on the core (2100) and +500 on the memory (5508) with a custom fan curve, @ 70% fan the card sits around 57°C...I haven't even touched the voltage so I could prob push it a bit more. The coil whine in comparison to the FTW is much quieter, same for the fan noise.
 
Did EVGA get round to actually telling use what the root cause was with the FTW or are they still silent?

J0NOX
Update:
Hey guys, said I would update,
 
Sucks to still see people getting problems with their FTW (strange artifacts etc). Got word from Amazon today, they have finally refunded my 3rd rma 1080 FTW.
My MSI 1080 arrive today and I couldn't be happier. Been running the Heaven bench for a while to make sure no 100%+BS (FTW lasted 15min on all 3 cards), happy to report no issues so far.
 
I also got the card to overclock +160 on the core (2100) and +500 on the memory (5508) with a custom fan curve, @ 70% fan the card sits around 57°C...I haven't even touched the voltage so I could prob push it a bit more. The coil whine in comparison to the FTW is much quieter, same for the fan noise.
 
Did EVGA get round to actually telling use what the root cause was with the FTW or are they still silent?

Very nice, glad you finally have a working card. Did you get the Seahawk or Gaming X? If you're at 57C on air that's pretty sweet, at those clocks. Still silence from EVGA. 

Just curious. Is this the sort of support one would receive if attempting to return an EVGA PSU? 

jlp209

J0NOX
Update:
Hey guys, said I would update,
 
Sucks to still see people getting problems with their FTW (strange artifacts etc). Got word from Amazon today, they have finally refunded my 3rd rma 1080 FTW.
My MSI 1080 arrive today and I couldn't be happier. Been running the Heaven bench for a while to make sure no 100%+BS (FTW lasted 15min on all 3 cards), happy to report no issues so far.
 
I also got the card to overclock +160 on the core (2100) and +500 on the memory (5508) with a custom fan curve, @ 70% fan the card sits around 57°C...I haven't even touched the voltage so I could prob push it a bit more. The coil whine in comparison to the FTW is much quieter, same for the fan noise.
 
Did EVGA get round to actually telling use what the root cause was with the FTW or are they still silent?

Very nice, glad you finally have a working card. Did you get the Seahawk or Gaming X? If you're at 57C on air that's pretty sweet, at those clocks. Still silence from EVGA. 

I went for the Gaming X card, running on the power of air!...Well at this point I can't see Evga saying much more about the 100%BS.

Maverick827
I still can't figure out how my 1080 Hybrid fits back in the box to ship it back.  I've looked all over YouTube and can't find a 1080 Hybrid unboxing video to see how it comes packaged.  There are a bunch of 980 Ti Hybrid unboxings, but the box is completely different.  The 1080 comes in what is essentially a shoe box.
 
Does anyone have any ideas?

To get the hybrid back in the original box you first put the radiator in the bottom middle part. Do it with the water lines pointing to the left. Then you twist the card counter clockwise so the water lines spiral up. Keep turning the card till the card can lay flat in the box. Then close it up.. yup seems strange but that's how they did it when I opened 2 of mine and how I boxed up both to send them back to evga.