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

If I was you I wouldn't take another chance with an EVGA card. Take a look at this one it's the one I got and it looks fantastic.
https://us.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1080-GAMING-8G.html#hero-overview
 

Hi,
 
I can confirm that this is abnormal behavior and we are here to help.  Please contact us at 1-888-881-3842 option 1 or by email at Support@evga.com so that we may work with you to find the cause or assist with warranty.

I can confirm that this theory is very inaccurate as we do test 100% of the 1080 FTW cards prior to shipping and that is why there is a DT model as not all cards can pass at the higher settings.  This is not due to a bad card, but rather how every GPU overclocks differently.  
 
I do not recommend downgrading your product, but instead finding the true cause of the issue.  We are here to help and please contact us so that we can work with you.
 
Please call or email us if you do need help as we are here to assist.
 
1-888-881-3842 Option 1 or by email at Support@evga.com  
 

landerx74
EVGA should immediately issue a recall and stop selling these FTW cards!! Here's my theory on how it went at the manufacturing plant: So out of a hundred cards manufactured they took a sample of 10 cards to test for overclocking stability. So 7 out of these 10 cards failed so rather than deciding to go back to the drawing board and find out why they failed they instead decided to create a whole new category of graphics card called the FTW DT! So now they can sell the FTW DT cards which are basically those 7 that failed their tests and we're down tuned as a result... hence the name FTW DT. For cost reasons they decided not to test the other 90 cards but instead just assumed that they would be ok! And now we the users are stuck with our games crashing and these stupid black screens and fighting with the retailers to get our money back! What a cluster f@#$$!! For a moment I actually thought I would get  a FTW DT card, but then I thought what the hell am I thinking getting a $700 card that actually has been DT (Down Tuned)!! Hell no!  So no more EVGA for me. I decided to get the MSI gaming 8G. I would rather get a non overclocked card and overclock it myself and ensure stability.

EVGATech_ChrisB
I can confirm that this theory is very inaccurate.  I do not recommend downgrading your product, but instead finding the true cause of the issue.
 
Please call or email us if you do need help as we are here to assist.
 
1-888-881-3842 Option 1 or by email at Support@evga.com  
 

landerx74
EVGA should immediately issue a recall and stop selling these FTW cards!! Here's my theory on how it went at the manufacturing plant: So out of a hundred cards manufactured they took a sample of 10 cards to test for overclocking stability. So 7 out of these 10 cards failed so rather than deciding to go back to the drawing board and find out why they failed they instead decided to create a whole new category of graphics card called the FTW DT! So now they can sell the FTW DT cards which are basically those 7 that failed their tests and we're down tuned as a result... hence the name FTW DT. For cost reasons they decided not to test the other 90 cards but instead just assumed that they would be ok! And now we the users are stuck with our games crashing and these stupid black screens and fighting with the retailers to get our money back! What a cluster f@#$$!! For a moment I actually thought I would get  a FTW DT card, but then I thought what the hell am I thinking getting a $700 card that actually has been DT (Down Tuned)!! Hell no!  So no more EVGA for me. I decided to get the MSI gaming 8G. I would rather get a non overclocked card and overclock it myself and ensure stability.

Thank you so much for responding! What would be great for all of us users experiencing this problem is for you to replicate this issue in the lab and help us with the diagnosis. I'm sure in your Advanced Labs you have much better equipment to diagnose the issue then we all do. Thank you again.

Fair comment Lander,like I said in previous posts I totally get how cheesed off you must be. But I personally admire your patience and understanding with the above post you've written. I sincerely hope you get a great card next time round,wether it be EVGA or another make...best of luck pal

Adger
Fair comment Lander,like I said in previous posts I totally get how cheesed off you must be. But I personally admire your patience and understanding with the above post you've written. I sincerely hope you get a great card next time round,wether it be EVGA or another make...best of luck pal

Thanks so much. I appreciate that. I haven't given up on EVGA. Just this round. And I'll let you know how the replacement card works. I'm praying this is not an Nvidia problem.

Well, if it makes anyone feel better, I have 2 1080 FTW cards in SLI. The top card likes to run at 2100mhz and the bottom 2000mhz on their own. They get to 65c with maybe 200 - 400 rpm on the fans. I have not experienced any issues with these cards at all but I am currently on a 1080p monitor while I research 1440p 144mhz and 4K monitors. I am not sure which direction I want to go although the 34" Ultrawide monitors from Asus and Acer have peaked my interest but my bank account is still recovering from my recent build.
 
I primarily play World of Warships which probably is not stressing 1 card out let alone 2 at 1080p but the settings are maxed out on the game as well as the following
 
Arma 3
Black Desert Online
Doom
The Division
GTA 5
 
Once I get a new monitor and start making the cards work, we'll see of those issues arise..... I hope not!

My Second Card also have that issue. Sry Evga never more. I Send it Back and buyed a Asus Strix and this Card runs stable with 68C under load with a custom Fan Curve and stable 2050MHz

Hey people, I also have this problem.
I sent my first card back about a week and a half ago because of coil whine. Tried loads of stuff to get rid of the coil but no luck (new psu, burn in test etc).
 
I just got my rma 1080 FTW replacement yesterday and unfortunately that also had the same level of coil whine ..so I though I would learn to live with it rather than yet another rma.
So I booted up the heaven benchmark for the first time with the new 1080 ftw. After 15min of running the bench I got a black screen and a hoover like fan noise from the card.
 
 
The card reached about 70°c on ultra, and about 55-60°c on low settings with a lower resolution ..all setting resulted in the same black screen fan problem after about 15-20min running heaven.
Tried just about everything to get it working, I lastly used debug mode via the Nvidia control panel and still no luck.
 
I did not have this problem with my first card and I haven't changed anything in my system since. I now wish I didn't rma my first card, but you don't really expect anything like this to happen I guess.
 
 
 

I am having the same problem with my gtx 1080 FTW playing the witcher 3 on 1440p ULTRA Settings it reaches 80° (my case is not the coldest one) and it got black screen with fans spinning to max. 80° are not normal but it should be due to the case not getting ventilated enough, but anyway this shouldn't cause the error I am having.
 
I will ask just for a refund I am not going to the RMA process.