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Renji1337
Does this affect the 1070 ftw? I dont have money to buy thermal paste right now because broke q_q

So you bought a $400 card and don't have $5 for thermal paste? This thread keeps delivering.

My cards were bought for me. I didn't buy them, don't make assumptions. I just don't have money in my online account to buy paste and wont for 2 weeks lol. I guess i'm just waiting.
 
I wonder if it will come with instructions on how to apply them/where

As I explained earlier in this thread, the ACX and ACX 2.0 BOTH utilized the same base plate design and heat pipe design. Neither of those suffered this issue. Hopefully EVGA is looking into what is causing this issue. Why would any company add extra thermal tape to an area that has never heeded it in the past? The true question is what is causing this issue to occur if it never happened in the past?

EVGA answered told me that until the moment the 1070 does not have the problems of 1080, same layout, same PCB, components, I'm customer I have a 1070 and I have the same problem of temperature, testing Furmark and OCCT board reaches 81 only in the GPU who knows how much reaches the VRAM and VRM.

Renji1337
My cards were bought for me. I didn't buy them, don't make assumptions. I just don't have money in my online account to buy paste and wont for 2 weeks lol. I guess i'm just waiting.

Renji, if you have the ability to send me an address through PM, I will send you a tube. I have lots of small tubes from buying waterblocks and such.

From today did not buy and do not indicate more EVGA products, showed no respect for the consumer with this kind of response.

Hi guys, I'm a new member in the forums.
I'm kind of worried that my card lifespan is in danger. Should I be worried. Is thermal pad really needed? I don't want to place the thermal pad myself as I don't want to damage the card. I don't have the skills.
 
I have the following graphics card that was registered on 10/25/16.
 
Could someone please verify if the following EVGA graphics card was already shipped from the factory with a thermal pad.
Serial Number: [REMOVED]
Part Number: 08G-P4-6286-KR
Part Desc: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0
 
The card was purchased on 10/10/16 and was sent to Israel (Where I live) a day before on 10/9/16.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
 
Edit by Jedi:  Please don't post your serial number in public.  EVGA can look up the s/n if it is registered.
 

Any ETA update?

I heard this temperature problems, and I checked my EVGA card.
(EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0)
And I found some gap between the Memory and the thermal pad.
 
Well this is disappointing.

I'm wondering if the 100% fan/black screen issue is being caused by components near the hotspot/VRM being damaged but not outright failing. On my 1070 the resistors in that area caught fire, but maybe on some cards they are damaged without obvious outward damage. Because once people start having the issue it seems to only get worse. If it was just cooling then that wouldn't happen, it seems to point to the fact that something has changed with the card. This is pure speculation but the problem seems to be affecting more than a few people. Of the burnt cards I've seen on here and reddit and a few hardware sites it's always been the hotspot VRM area where the damage appeared.

Has anyone tested 1070 FTW temps via infrared?