Posted it to r/nvidia on reddit and someone also linked my post from r/teamevga so we'll get more eyes on it the issue, thanks for linking the article to us, mannitu78.
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/58acqy/evga_1080_ftw_thermal_imaging_might_explain_black/

Interesting...
 
I have a 1080 FTW and have never had any problems.
 
However, the max temperature my GPU has ever reached under any stress scenario is 65 C...not the 76 C they are reporting (and the card overclocks at 2100 MHz).
 
So - following the above logic, the max memory temperature would also drop by 11 C...so 106 C to 95 C.
 
Not sure if I believe the actual chip memory temperature is 106 C though...

ksgnow2010
Interesting...
 
I have a 1080 FTW and have never had any problems.
 
However, the max temperature my GPU has ever reached under any stress scenario is 65 C...not the 76 C they are reporting (and the card overclocks at 2100 MHz).
 
So - following the above logic, the max memory temperature would also drop by 11 C...so 106 C to 95 C.
 
Not sure if I believe the actual chip memory temperature is 106 C though...

My setup, 3x noctua industrials for case fans: http://i.imgur.com/l8kK4UU.jpg
 
I was reaching 73 degrees with fans on the gpu at like ~40% boosted to 1962 Mhz, ambient room temp around 22-24 degrees. I only ever tried adding 100+ to the core and that worked without changing anything else in benchmarks. But it went black screen in Tomb Raider at stock and then I just sent it back to my retailer.

My 1070 FTW just caught fire right along that hotspot area...shot out a flame, cooked resistors then died.  :(

interesting
 
 

NetQvist


My setup, 3x noctua industrials for case fans: http://i.imgur.com/l8kK4UU.jpg
 
I was reaching 73 degrees with fans on the gpu at like ~40% boosted to 1962 Mhz, ambient room temp around 22-24 degrees. I only ever tried adding 100+ to the core and that worked without changing anything else in benchmarks. But it went black screen in Tomb Raider at stock and then I just sent it back to my retailer.

Try adding more fan speed to your gpu. 40% is low. Push it to 60% more air movement will make for more optimal airflow over the gpu.

Scarlet-Tech

NetQvist


My setup, 3x noctua industrials for case fans: http://i.imgur.com/l8kK4UU.jpg
 
I was reaching 73 degrees with fans on the gpu at like ~40% boosted to 1962 Mhz, ambient room temp around 22-24 degrees. I only ever tried adding 100+ to the core and that worked without changing anything else in benchmarks. But it went black screen in Tomb Raider at stock and then I just sent it back to my retailer.

Try adding more fan speed to your gpu. 40% is low. Push it to 60% more air movement will make for more optimal airflow over the gpu.

Already sent it back to the retailer should have a response by the end of the week if I can exchange it for a proper brand. If the card overheats on stock settings without an additional OC in a well ventilated case then it's defective product no questions asked.

GamerSX
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EVGA said that they will not say the reason behind the failure so that people do not attempt to fix it themselves, what else can users fix on a card other than improve the cooling themselves? i don't think that users can go as far as desoldering and replacing components on the PCB.

Don't fool yourself,  there are always new tech stories, regularly, with people trying various DIY stuff on electronics of every sort trying to fix this or improve that.
There's probably 20-30% of owners that'll try something, with only 2-5% of them actually knowing how electronics work and how to "properly" repair them.
Of that, there's another 0.25-1% that can actually repair or substitute a valid working circuit (regulation, filtering, overload-limiting etc.) on a card.
Of course once you go there, bye-bye warranty.
 
Don't you reddit ? 
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore
 
Anyways, all of this comes back to heat.
 
I still find people with High-Performance systems in a sealed box with 1 case fan, wondering why everything is so warm/hot and things crash and fail.
More fans in the right place, cables re-arranged, more venting if needed, end of problem.
 
Greene

libneon
My 1070 FTW just caught fire right along that hotspot area...shot out a flame, cooked resistors then died.  :(

Here is another case, hope that is not you 
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/580b8w/welp_my_evga_1070_ftw_just_killed_itself/
 

NetQvist

Scarlet-Tech

NetQvist


My setup, 3x noctua industrials for case fans: http://i.imgur.com/l8kK4UU.jpg

I was reaching 73 degrees with fans on the gpu at like ~40% boosted to 1962 Mhz, ambient room temp around 22-24 degrees. I only ever tried adding 100+ to the core and that worked without changing anything else in benchmarks. But it went black screen in Tomb Raider at stock and then I just sent it back to my retailer.

Try adding more fan speed to your gpu. 40% is low. Push it to 60% more air movement will make for more optimal airflow over the gpu.

Already sent it back to the retailer should have a response by the end of the week if I can exchange it for a proper brand. If the card overheats on stock settings without an additional OC in a well ventilated case then it's defective product no questions asked.

The fans are meant to go up to 100%. At 40%, they are only meant to keep the temperatures below the 80c mark, and they are doing that. People screamed that they wanted quiet gpu's, so evga made them quiet, and now they are screaming that the card gets hot compared to a GPU with faster/louder fans. The user is required to find the happy median for the best results. Every user will want something different, which is why settings can be changed.