HitmanVegeta
Can someone tell me how much is the collateral money we must give for the advanced RMA??? 

The full price of the card that is listed on the EVGA site unless they are doing something special due to the this case.  

New card arrived today, about to install and test it out shortly. First thing i noticed is that the outside of the box matches my first card that i bought from Jet.com on August 11th. It is different from the box containing my replacement that i recieved on Aug. 29th.

Inside the box, instead of a foam box inside holding the card it is a thin plastic. I have yet to look at the cooler itself but there were several differences between my 1st and 2nd cards, notably the heatpipes on the 1st were a dull metal with squared off ends, while the 2nd has shiny heatpipes with a more pointed end. I'm curious to see which this will be, since i see no way of determining the actual manufacturing date?

keep us posted pls

Before I open this 1080ftw is it possible to verify my card will not have the issue by serial number?

Hi,
 
If you are in the US or Canada then we use our EAR program and the collateral is not charged up front.  If you are in any other region then we use our local program and the collateral is held with PayPal.
 

NxtGenCowboy

HitmanVegeta
Can someone tell me how much is the collateral money we must give for the advanced RMA??? 

The full price of the card that is listed on the EVGA site unless they are doing something special due to the this case.  

Hi,
 
I can confirm that it is random and only occurs on a very small number of cards.  Likely you will not be affected and can just game like normal, but if you should receive any stability issues with crashing to a black screen then please enable debug mode in the NVIDIA control panel as a temporary fix and notify us so that we can help you with a exchange of the product.
 

fleshworm
Before I open this 1080ftw is it possible to verify my card will not have the issue by serial number?

I overclocked mine, but i can barley reach 2000mhz, and for that i need 100% fan speed otherwise it clocks down, this card gets a lot hotter than the other one i had. But maybe this one is more normal and i just had luck to get a card that went at 2025mhz before. (even though it blacked screen 3 weeks after i got it) Anyway no black screen yet and hopefully wont get any.

My new one has pretty annoying coil whine and OC's a smidge less. Chance of it crashing vs an annoying card. Woe is me, lol.

FEAReaper
New card arrived today, about to install and test it out shortly. First thing i noticed is that the outside of the box matches my first card that i bought from Jet.com on August 11th. It is different from the box containing my replacement that i recieved on Aug. 29th.

Inside the box, instead of a foam box inside holding the card it is a thin plastic. I have yet to look at the cooler itself but there were several differences between my 1st and 2nd cards, notably the heatpipes on the 1st were a dull metal with squared off ends, while the 2nd has shiny heatpipes with a more pointed end. I'm curious to see which this will be, since i see no way of determining the actual manufacturing date?

Did they ship you a brand new card in the retail box?  Still waiting on mine.   Also how do you ship back the card?  Put the busted one back in the retail box with the cables etc and send it back?
 
Also how are your clocks out of the box and does it crash on Rocket League like your other?

I have both blue screened and black screened with my 1080 hybrid but it may have been due to an unstable overclock. Currently using a +50 mhz oc, no crashes yet on it since I applied it on August 20. (It crashed at +100/125/150/200 mhz)   GPU OC runs around 2,040 mhz @ +50 mhz
 
I am fearful that there is a chance my card has the issue though I'm happy for now.