It might be worth the time for EVGA to basically chop the heat spreading backing plate in half between the VRM and VRAM. That way the heat doesn't transfer so easily across the metal from one to the other. The only other alternative seems to be to run a very aggressive fan profile and just cope with having a GE90115b in your office.

Emwun Garand
It might be worth the time for EVGA to basically chop the heat spreading backing plate in half between the VRM and VRAM. That way the heat doesn't transfer so easily across the metal from one to the other. The only other alternative seems to be to run a very aggressive fan profile and just cope with having a GE90115b in your office.

Maybe that's what they meant by not releasing the information about the issue so that people won't try to fix it themselves and void their warranty!
 
Haha! =)

I really hope we are going to get a response from evga soon 

Emwun Garand
It might be worth the time for EVGA to basically chop the heat spreading backing plate in half between the VRM and VRAM. That way the heat doesn't transfer so easily across the metal from one to the other. The only other alternative seems to be to run a very aggressive fan profile and just cope with having a GE90115b in your office.

Why not try it and see?

AHowes

Emwun Garand
It might be worth the time for EVGA to basically chop the heat spreading backing plate in half between the VRM and VRAM. That way the heat doesn't transfer so easily across the metal from one to the other. The only other alternative seems to be to run a very aggressive fan profile and just cope with having a GE90115b in your office.

Why not try it and see?

I'd be happy to do the fabrication and testing if they want to provide me with a free FTW. 

Interesting times ahead i guess for us FTW owners

are all 1070 ftw cards affected by this issue? are all cards shipped before 31 aug automatically eligible for rma?

there are 2 Issues atm. 1 about the micron memory, which you can fix with a bios update (as far as i know)..and this one, of course it does affect all cards. It doesnt have to affect all users. It depends what type of games you play, if you overclock, benchmark etc. I guess it may only become a problem with high power draw.
 
However, i think the RMA-sendback-rate will be outstanding high with this FTW series. Its not the gpu-temp that kills cards over time, but the temperature of the pcb and the soldering, the very high temp-differences put a lot of stress on the vram and the solderings all around the gpu-socket. But with EVGA at least you should not get a problem when you have to return it.

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are all 1070 ftw cards affected by this issue? are all cards shipped before 31 aug automatically eligible for rma?

Not every card is affected by the same issues, but if your card is having an issue, then an RMA is warranted. There more than likely isn't a set timeline as to which cards see issues compared to others, since every card isn't affected the same.

Guys, seriously, you should consider to buy a Raijintek Morpheus or an EK Alpenfön Peter...see this as an oppurtunity..every PCB that costs a couple of 100 bucks deserves high-end-air cooling. Theres just no way a stock cooler will ever be able to keep up. Theres just no enough room under stock coolers to provide really good heatsinks on VRM and memory. And 2x120mm ist just superior to 2x100 or 3x90mm.....