Shame has to give to EVGA treatment that is giving the problem, maybe you do not have the means or can not solve, in the last years have passed through my hands several EVGA but as a satisfactory solution will be securely the last, whether it would be worse than even above had some kind of cost to the buyer, is very hard and takes a long time to reach the top but the descent is very fast, good luck to the losers.

thermal pads request link
 
www.evga.com/thermalmod/default.asp#request

nika006
Where can I order those pads with instructions?
 
If EVGA asks shipping fee, I'm done. Gonna sell my FTW and buy a Palit.
 
It's like Galaxy Note 7, 5 out of 1000 explodes, same here. It gets overheated, in some cases it burns the card.
 
The chance is not high ofcourse, but it's still there and it shouldn't happen at all in the first place. 
 
EVGA should make a separate thermal pads page with the order link.

There has already been posts from evga saying there will be no shipping charge.

I requested the thermal pad and I'm in Egypt, I wonder how long it will take to receive them.
 
Anyone in this thread received his thermal pad?

bissagars
I requested the thermal pad and I'm in Egypt, I wonder how long it will take to receive them.
 
Anyone in this thread received his thermal pad?

they haven't sent it yet.

As concerning as all this is, i'd love nothing more than to see EVGA innovate a way to over-come all this and bounce back with a vengeance.
EVGA have proven to be a formidable opponent when they get their engineering right, and have done so many times in the past.

I just got my second 1080 FTW... so sad...

bissagars
reading the tomshardware.de full review comparison , the EVGA has high VRM temp, but the Zotac has higher temp and Zotac didn't say anything about that.
 
Full temperature comparison:
Zotac GTX 1080 AMP Xtreme VRM 106.9c
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW VRM 106.8c
Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 has hot spot 97.8c / VRM 82.9c
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X has hot spot 96.7c / VRM 98.2c
Gigabyte GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming VRM 83.2c
Palit GTX 1080 Game Rock hot spot 82.6c / VRM 76.9
Galax GeForce GTX 1080 HoF VRM 75c
 

Yes, but only in Furmark. If you look at the Zotac run on Metro:LL, where the FTW cards keep scoring over 100 C, the temps are down to some of the better temps in the field: 88,9 C
 
It's a very logical result of the Zotac AMP! Extreme having a 270w power delivery instead of the FTW at 215w. Furmark maximizes the power draw to whatever the board can push, but is not a realistic gaming load. The much lower VRM temps on the Zotac actually show that the cooling is well designed around the normal TDP limits of Pascal, and that its VRM section is heavily over engineered. Pascal BIOS will never allow the card to draw 270w, so the only reason you'd ever see VRM temps over 100 C on the Zotac AMP is when you are using modded BIOS and hardware volt/TDP bypass mods - which immediately voids the warranty.
 
In addition, if you have been paying attention, it is the GDDR5 next to the VRM section that creates issues at high temps, not the VRM itself. Even though 100 C is hot, its usually within spec for VRM which is rated for 105-120C (or more), while GDDR5 is rated at 95 C.
 
And then you keep the EVGA solution WITH the added thermal pads next to this, and you can see why there's reason to say ACX 3.0 is a crappy cooler design.
 
http://www.tomshardware.d...erichte-242137-12.html

bissagars
reading the tomshardware.de full review comparison , the EVGA has high VRM temp, but the Zotac has higher temp and Zotac didn't say anything about that.
 
Full temperature comparison:
Zotac GTX 1080 AMP Xtreme VRM 106.9c
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW VRM 106.8c
Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 has hot spot 97.8c / VRM 82.9c
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X has hot spot 96.7c / VRM 98.2c
Gigabyte GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming VRM 83.2c
Palit GTX 1080 Game Rock hot spot 82.6c / VRM 76.9
Galax GeForce GTX 1080 HoF VRM 75c
 

The VRMs are actually not the issue. I think they can withstand up to 120-150°C. The main problem is, that these VRMs are basically cooking the VRAMs, which shouldnt pass 95°C (according to Micron)

still the Zotac is crap. KFA HOF for the win:)..not only is it well designed, i have so good experience with KFA when it comes to clock speeds...which maybe Luck ofc. Id go witth the Classified or the KFA HOF.