Emwun Garand
Tem4ik
so the issue is that not all of the memory pads on the memory chips and vrm are touching the support plate? here's a pic from thg review with stock pads, which one is EVGA sending? i'm using dual GTX 1070 FTW in sli, my top card usually hovers around 83C and bottom around 74C with no issues, no OC, but i ran both with 2025/8600 for some time as well with same temps and no issues

The pads they're sending go on the back plate, not the top plate.
have applied additional thermal pads between the
backplate and the PCB and between the baseplate and the heatsink fins, with the results shown below. We will offer these optional thermal pads free of charge to EVGA owners who want to have a lower temperature.