acxcoolerssuck

Scarlet-Tech
For those with gaps, submit a support ticket to have the card replaced. There should not be gaps.

Personally, I would think this is probably standoffs with and incorrect height. I know the first card had the heatspreader modified, which is never a good idea, but a few others are seeing the same issue.

i dont intend to mod the plate. i asked for another vrm heatsink by evga. i have no choice. and the plate is not user friendly at all. not to mention the cooling performance of the plate.

How is a solid piece of aluminum supposed to be user friendly? Please explain that one so I can understand.

The cooling performance requires air to flow across it. If you remove the air. Movement from any of the other brands you mention, their card would overheat too. Unfortunately (and I said this months ago) EVGA decided to make the card "silent" and set the fan speed so low that the air can not flow through the fins to the plate.

Scarlet-Tech

acxcoolerssuck

Scarlet-Tech
For those with gaps, submit a support ticket to have the card replaced. There should not be gaps.

Personally, I would think this is probably standoffs with and incorrect height. I know the first card had the heatspreader modified, which is never a good idea, but a few others are seeing the same issue.

i dont intend to mod the plate. i asked for another vrm heatsink by evga. i have no choice. and the plate is not user friendly at all. not to mention the cooling performance of the plate.

How is a solid piece of aluminum supposed to be user friendly? Please explain that one so I can understand.

The cooling performance requires air to flow across it. If you remove the air. Movement from any of the other brands you mention, their card would overheat too. Unfortunately (and I said this months ago) EVGA decided to make the card "silent" and set the fan speed so low that the air can not flow through the fins to the plate.

I mean users can't install third party cooler on evga cards without removing the cooling plate . Actually even evga hybrid cooler can't be installed on evga cards with the plate. And removing the cooling plate also means the back plate can't be mounted too, you should know that as I saw your guide post.

The plate is solid, so it wont be bent easily.

Other brands cooling plate has micro fins on the plate while evga hasn't. Evga is not the only one using cooling plate but those reviews show clearly that evga cooling plate is much worse than other brands plates. Although evga plate can keep the vrm temp under 100c in gaming meaning the plate is enough for cooling purpose and maintaining the vrm rating at 35a.

Scarlet-Tech
For those with gaps, submit a support ticket to have the card replaced. There should not be gaps.

Personally, I would think this is probably standoffs with and incorrect height. I know the first card had the heatspreader modified, which is never a good idea, but a few others are seeing the same issue.

From reading through the reddit post that blew up today, this actually seems like quite the prevalent issue. I'm really surprised EVGA has not found it necessary to conduct a full review and come out with another public statement. I'm having the thermal pads installed by a professional and only after that is done will I know for certain if my 2x 1080 FTWs have this widely reported gap between the VRAM and the thermal pads on the mid plate. What if I get the pads installed and then find out I need more or a full RMA? I'm paying for a repair on a broken product that quite likely has even more issues.

HungryHamster

Scarlet-Tech
For those with gaps, submit a support ticket to have the card replaced. There should not be gaps.

Personally, I would think this is probably standoffs with and incorrect height. I know the first card had the heatspreader modified, which is never a good idea, but a few others are seeing the same issue.

From reading through the reddit post that blew up today, this actually seems like quite the prevalent issue. I'm really surprised EVGA has not found it necessary to conduct a full review and come out with another public statement. I'm having the thermal pads installed by a professional and only after that is done will I know for certain if my 2x 1080 FTWs have this widely reported gap between the VRAM and the thermal pads on the mid plate. What if I get the pads installed and then find out I need more or a full RMA? I'm paying for a repair on a broken product that quite likely has even more issues.

May I have the reddit link please

that's getting really ridiculous, either no thermal pads or existing ones doesn't cool properly.
what's next?! 

i added the reddit link to #1
https://www.reddit.com/r/...wo_evga_gtx_1080_ftws/

acxcoolerssuck

HungryHamster

Scarlet-Tech
For those with gaps, submit a support ticket to have the card replaced. There should not be gaps.

Personally, I would think this is probably standoffs with and incorrect height. I know the first card had the heatspreader modified, which is never a good idea, but a few others are seeing the same issue.

From reading through the reddit post that blew up today, this actually seems like quite the prevalent issue. I'm really surprised EVGA has not found it necessary to conduct a full review and come out with another public statement. I'm having the thermal pads installed by a professional and only after that is done will I know for certain if my 2x 1080 FTWs have this widely reported gap between the VRAM and the thermal pads on the mid plate. What if I get the pads installed and then find out I need more or a full RMA? I'm paying for a repair on a broken product that quite likely has even more issues.

May I have the reddit link please

Yes, here it is:
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5aqjvb/so_i_disassembled_my_two_evga_gtx_1080_ftws/
 
Many people are reporting a similar issue. This is obviously not an issue that is just confined to a few cases, but EVGA sure is pretending like it is. They need to come clean and perform a full recall.

HungryHamster

acxcoolerssuck

HungryHamster

Scarlet-Tech
For those with gaps, submit a support ticket to have the card replaced. There should not be gaps.

Personally, I would think this is probably standoffs with and incorrect height. I know the first card had the heatspreader modified, which is never a good idea, but a few others are seeing the same issue.

From reading through the reddit post that blew up today, this actually seems like quite the prevalent issue. I'm really surprised EVGA has not found it necessary to conduct a full review and come out with another public statement. I'm having the thermal pads installed by a professional and only after that is done will I know for certain if my 2x 1080 FTWs have this widely reported gap between the VRAM and the thermal pads on the mid plate. What if I get the pads installed and then find out I need more or a full RMA? I'm paying for a repair on a broken product that quite likely has even more issues.

May I have the reddit link please

Yes, here it is:
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5aqjvb/so_i_disassembled_my_two_evga_gtx_1080_ftws/
 
Many people are reporting a similar issue. This is obviously not an issue that is just confined to a few cases, but EVGA sure is pretending like it is. They need to come clean and perform a full recall.

i would prefer having new design of thermal pads sent by evga to fix the problem by myself.
rma/recall/refund is not fun for me... even no shipping fee, time is still wasted... although fixing the problem by myself will take us some time too....

HungryHamster

acxcoolerssuck

HungryHamster

Scarlet-Tech
For those with gaps, submit a support ticket to have the card replaced. There should not be gaps.

Personally, I would think this is probably standoffs with and incorrect height. I know the first card had the heatspreader modified, which is never a good idea, but a few others are seeing the same issue.

From reading through the reddit post that blew up today, this actually seems like quite the prevalent issue. I'm really surprised EVGA has not found it necessary to conduct a full review and come out with another public statement. I'm having the thermal pads installed by a professional and only after that is done will I know for certain if my 2x 1080 FTWs have this widely reported gap between the VRAM and the thermal pads on the mid plate. What if I get the pads installed and then find out I need more or a full RMA? I'm paying for a repair on a broken product that quite likely has even more issues.

May I have the reddit link please

Yes, here it is:
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/5aqjvb/so_i_disassembled_my_two_evga_gtx_1080_ftws/
 
Many people are reporting a similar issue. This is obviously not an issue that is just confined to a few cases, but EVGA sure is pretending like it is. They need to come clean and perform a full recall.

lol i saw a guy called evga lee in reddit actively offers rma with 100% brand new card return to op because op bought the card within 30days.  
thicker pads should fix the problem so if card returned is not 100% brand new then i think rma is not worth to do it.

he offers him brand new cards because he is in the 30 day purchase window. people need to read or think what they read.