MisterWhale
Hi Everyone. Having the same issue with my EVGA GTX 1080 FTW that i received yesterday. non GPU demanding games run great without any issues what so ever (Overwatch and Fallout 4 just to name a couple) but more demanding games that require the GPU clock rate to boost such as Total War: Warhammer cause black screen and 100% fan after 5-10 minutes. Contacting EVGA as i type this to try and get a RMA.
 
ran the SFC scanner as BranC85 suggested but my windows seems clean
 
Card seems to run fine with Debug mode enabled but it would be annoying to turn it on every time i boot the pc. debug mode also seems to cause issues with windows booting properly after a shutdown and when i finally boot causes the keyboard to act strange
 
Hopefully have more luck with the next card.

If it is not too late my suggestion would be to return the card to the place that you bought it. See if they will do that for you..maybe give you store credit..I strongly suspect that only 1 out of 10 of these FTW - Fail to Win cards actually work like they are supposed to.  Get the stock card if you want to stick with EVGA and then just overclock it yourself.

In the UK so its currently 12:35am. Bought the card for Scan so i'll contact them tomorrow as well and see what i can get sorted.

I have the same problem when playing NBA2K16 at 4k downsampling with 120 Hz.
This happens random. One day I can play the whole day without any issue the other day not. Wonder what I can do more to solve this. My windows is clean installed and I updated driver with DDU (it happened with 368 and the new 372 driver)
 
That sounds like an issue similar to the 9 series cards. I think EVGA should take a close look at this topic and bring a bios update.

Update on my side of things. only game that causes black screen and gpu fan 100% for me is Total War Warhammer. everything else has been fine so far. might just be an issue with the game for me.
Ran Heaven Benchmark for about 1 hour 15 minutes this morning and didn't have a single problem.
 
going to try some other games too. probably Witcher 3, Doom, Rise of the Tomb Raider and The Division.

When i get a new card i always let it idle for 72 hours before i run any game or benchmark.
 
Before i install new card i always format and do clean Windows install. In case of Windows 10 i keep network cable unplugged until i get all the drivers loaded to prevent Microsoft bull**** with pushing outdated drivers via Windows Update which cannot be controlled. Everytime you update drivers i suggest to unplug network cable, clean it up, install new ones and plug network cable in.
 
I got 1080 FTW Last week and didn't have any probs so far. I don't use OCX Precision. I use Aida64 to display its information on Logitech G15 LCD Screen. I noticed the highest temperature i got was 75C while playing Doom and Crysis 3. Highest boost clock was 1869 Mhz. Black screen issue i had was with my last card GTX 470 years ago and funny thing was that i was getting same issue with three different eVga cards. It was a painful process i never resolved so i dropped those cards to different system and magically there was no more of issue. At that point i switched to AMD cause i had no money to afford new mobo and what not. A point i want to make is if you could test your card on different system and see if same thing happens. There could be multiple factors causing this issue. 
 
Evga 1080 FTW requires 2x8pin connectors. Do you run these from same rail or two rails? I suggest to connect 8pin connectors from two different rails, to split that power across evenly unless you really have some bad ass 1000+ PSU...then it won't matter. These cards can also be sensitive to BIOS settings like PCIe AUTO vs. Gen3, boot Legacy vs UEFI, CPU and Memory clock, Blck speed? If you are running Intel check if your Blck is 100Mhz or perhaps shoots over and if so lower it by 1Mhz, it might help 1080 FTW.
 
Just ideas and good luck guys.

i believe my 2x8 pin connectors are run from the same rail. PSU is a Corsair AX1200 1200W. ran a GTX690 for 3 and a half year, untill its VRAM failed, before getting this 1080.
 
ran Fallout 4 for annother 75 minutes with no issues. currently testing Rise of the Tomb Raider, 20 minutes in a no issues. thinking my issue is just with Total War Warhammer
 
thanks for the tips though :)

Another Update with my 1080. Crashed on Rise of the Tomb Raider after 90 minutes. seems like it crashes on every game after a while just some it crashes sooner then others (Total War: Warhammer after 5-10 minutes)
spoke to the retailers and am returning it to them.
 
Currently borrowing my Friends old PNY GTX 580 and have had no issues in any game what so ever.

MisterWhale
Another Update with my 1080. Crashed on Rise of the Tomb Raider after 90 minutes. seems like it crashes on every game after a while just some it crashes sooner then others (Total War: Warhammer after 5-10 minutes)
spoke to the retailers and am returning it to them.
 
Currently borrowing my Friends old PNY GTX 580 and have had no issues in any game what so ever.

Just when you go to the retailer try to get a store credit and under no circumstance get another EVGA GTX 1080 FTW. 

what card would you recommend? a different EVGA 1080 or do you think the SC and Classified will have the same issue? i hear that the MSI Gaming X is pretty good, my friend has a Zotac card he's ran into no issues with it and says it runs great. havn't heard much about Asus' Cards with the 10 Series

MisterWhale
what card would you recommend? a different EVGA 1080 or do you think the SC and Classified will have the same issue? i hear that the MSI Gaming X is pretty good, my friend has a Zotac card he's ran into no issues with it and says it runs great. havn't heard much about Asus' Cards with the 10 Series

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