100% stock, no overclock at all. My first 1080 had some artifacting in a games but it strangely went away. No issues with regular game crashes, and event viewer is spotless. I watched every imaginable metric using gpu-z sensor logging. We know it is the card itself since atleast one other person had their second card have the same issue, but the third finally fixed it for him.
I wanted the 1080 FTW so badly, it was the only version even in my mind going into this build. I have used only EVGA cards since switching to Nvidia 10 years ago, and while I know any card can have issues, any company can have a manufacturing problem, this issue is nothing like what I've seen before, and without any official word from EVGA on what specifically is happening here, any 1080 FTW being in my system would just feel like a ticking time bomb. I would happily trade up to the classified card since its a whole different PCB but that is not an option they allow, so my only option they gave me is to take my business to their competitors from now on.
Yes, im very frustrated but not trying to be Overly dramatic even though it may read that way, im just extremely dissapointed here. This rig as a birthday build, all i have had is 3 weeks of constant Headaches(literally) and stress from this, I'm too sick to work for 4 years so my only joy is gaming, and that's not possible on this card.