ElBartoME
Nereus
ElBartoME
I deeply regret buying the 1080 Hybrid. Since I got the card I wasn't able to play anything properly in fear of crashing again. And that was at least two months ago. On friday Battlefield 1 is being released and I can't play it at all. 
LOL wait.. your post makes little sense to me the way it is worded - it sounds like you purchased the card but have never used it for gaming because you're scared it *might* crash?? That is crazy. If you purchased the card and you *did* get the black screen full fan speed issue, did you ask for an RMA to replace it, or just stopped playing games? ..which is still crazy. OR, did you get a replacement via RMA, but have not gamed with the replacement card because ...you're scared it *might* crash? LOL sorry this just isn't making any sense, I hope I am just misunderstanding your post.
You are misunderstanding my post. I got the black screen several times during gaming. I then stopped playing because of that issue. I then requested a RMA which took some time. The replacement card also got me the black screen several times. I stopped playing again. Now I'm waiting for my third card...
You have my sympathy. It is bad enough to have to replace an expensive graphics card once due to a defect but twice? That is just shocking. I really hope that doesn't happen to me as well because it would almost certainly put me off buying EVGA cards in future.
Of course, when I get my new card (today... hopefully) then I will be testing it thoroughly at stock speeds and with the mild overclock I've been using for the last two months (+50 MHz core, +250 MHz VRAM) using the default fan profile since this is when the black screen issue is more likely to occur. However, I've found that my current (supposedly defective) card has been running fine for the last five days without a single black screen issue when using a custom fan profile in MSI Afterburner. I personally believe that this is helping cool the hot parts of the PCB and reducing the likelihood of getting a black screen. The only real difference between the default and custom profile is that the latter spins the fans all the time (a base of 40%) whereas the one the card ships with only turns them on about 65 C. I initially used a custom profile when I first got my card and it was stable. I then switched to the default one about a month ago and started getting black screens about a week or two later. I am now using the custom profile again and the black screens have gone.
It's maybe not 100% conclusive since the issue even when it happened seemed completely random (it could happen 5 minutes or 3 hours into playing a game or not at all) but it does seem to make a difference to the stability of the card on my system. Until I got this card I have pretty much always used custom fan profiles with reference NVIDIA cards to keep the temperatures below 75 C. This is what helped me avoid the infamous 0% fan issue of one of NVIDIA's drivers about 5 or 6 years ago.