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brokencross

loveha
we have the heatsinks not touching the VRAM in some instances.
 

That's a 1080 only issue, correct? I haven't yet seen 1070s with those issues.

Are they not built identical? I don't know for sure, but I thought they were.

Think so yes, but every thread that popped up complaining of such was about a 1080. Plus everyone who had a 1070 and inspected their card noticed nothing abnormal.
I haven't inspected mine because I can't be bothered to take it out.
And yes, I fully agree with you. I can't care less if mine blows up.
EU directives protect us customers in full and I will demand a refund if anything happens. And I advise every EU user on this forum to do the same.
 
btw, everyone who has a 1070 FTW should definitely check this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/...tw_under_load/d96jcxn/

In fact... for me I dont care about my graphic card... really dont I have 10 years warranty...
So it can blow up, I just hope it will not happen before the 1100 GTX series 

But I care about the rest of my computer (my motherboard for example) and if something happens to other parts of my computer because of my evga graphic card, I can assure you that every member of the EVGA support will know my name !  


I can be a huge pain in the butt if I'm in my rights 

And I think I'm not the only one 

edited word to make one word in compliance with TOS

I can tell you that my 1070SC is having ram issues. I get a checkerboard crash when ever i put even a 50mhz overclock on the ram. It happens in every game. That is caused by Vram over heating. I ran a 980Ti in the same case for years. It would never get above 74C on the core. My 1070 runs max 72c and it still get this crash anytime i put any overclock on it. 

dwrecording
I can tell you that my 1070SC is having ram issues. I get a checkerboard crash when ever i put even a 50mhz overclock on the ram. It happens in every game. That is caused by Vram over heating. I ran a 980Ti in the same case for years. It would never get above 74C on the core. My 1070 runs max 72c and it still get this crash anytime i put any overclock on it. 

Have you updated the bios?

brokencross

dwrecording
I can tell you that my 1070SC is having ram issues. I get a checkerboard crash when ever i put even a 50mhz overclock on the ram. It happens in every game. That is caused by Vram over heating. I ran a 980Ti in the same case for years. It would never get above 74C on the core. My 1070 runs max 72c and it still get this crash anytime i put any overclock on it. 

Have you updated the bios?

In addition to updating the VBIOS, there is absolutely, 100%, NO guarantee by EVGA for overclocking results that were not done at the factory.
 
Not even 1 MHz more. 
 
Overclocking is free performance on top of stock performance, and no graphics company that I'm aware of guarantees any overclocking results beyond what comes from the factory.
 
Yes, it sucks to get a card that can't be pushed very far. It happens, but at least the 1070 is a very powerful card to begin with - and VRAM overclocking doesn't help as much as core clock overclocking on the top end models. 

arestavo
In addition to updating the VBIOS, there is absolutely, 100%, NO guarantee by EVGA for overclocking results that were not done at the factory.
 
Not even 1 MHz more. 
 
Overclocking is free performance on top of stock performance, and no graphics company that I'm aware of guarantees any overclocking results beyond what comes from the factory.
 
Yes, it sucks to get a card that can't be pushed very far. It happens, but at least the 1070 is a very powerful card to begin with - and VRAM overclocking doesn't help as much as core clock overclocking on the top end models. 

Well of course, no vendor guarantees you every card will do X overclock.
But either way, like you say, overclocking the VRAM brings only marginal improvement. Nothing that can be really noticeable. 

brokencross

arestavo
In addition to updating the VBIOS, there is absolutely, 100%, NO guarantee by EVGA for overclocking results that were not done at the factory.
 
Not even 1 MHz more. 
 
Overclocking is free performance on top of stock performance, and no graphics company that I'm aware of guarantees any overclocking results beyond what comes from the factory.
 
Yes, it sucks to get a card that can't be pushed very far. It happens, but at least the 1070 is a very powerful card to begin with - and VRAM overclocking doesn't help as much as core clock overclocking on the top end models. 

Well of course, no vendor guarantees you every card will do X overclock.
But either way, like you say, overclocking the VRAM brings only marginal improvement. Nothing that can be really noticeable. 

Neither does overclocking the core unless you're benching. Real world gains are roughly what 1-7fps more depending on clocks on the 1070's? Nothing really noticeable unless you're getting low fps to begin with. Guess it's free performance tho.

Playing the remastered Skyrim version at 4K (no mods) with a 1080 ACX that extra OC gets me comfortably at 60 FPS, or almost there, everywhere. Without that extra bit of OC, I drop down to the low 50s in cretain outdoor areas and it is noticable.
 
1080P won't nearly have that problem even with a 1070 or 980Ti (there are always notable exceptions, especially for CPU heavy titles).

After reading the forums in the past few days i decided to share my opinion and impressions on the issue, i don't like vulgar, rude or any sort of heated discussions so i'll try to make this my first and last post about the issue, i'm pretty sure the mods already got their hands full with so many people fighting between themselves.
 
I'll be honest and admit i was scared when i came back from a 2 weeks business trip and found out that most PC/Hardware forums and communities were all making an uproar about cards exploding and that i was in risk of getting my cat killed if i didn't RMA my 1080 FTW right away, it all happened at the same time in such short time frame between the reported cases that i was completely confused (why did all these cards go up in flames in the same week to begin with?)
 
But after cooling my head and searching a bit it doesn't sound that much of a doomsday like people are trying to make it look. First off everytime time someone posts a picture or video it's always the same pictures and the same videos, not saying everyone is lying but the facts points that may be a dozen of cards with this issue at best, this isn't like Galaxy Note 7.
 
I got my 1080 FTW back in July and so far i never got a single issue. No black screen, no fans spinning 100%, no crashes and no instabilities. Nothing, nada and i play games daily after finishing my work. Then again i got a high-end full tower case (Corsair 780T) so airflow and cooling isn't an issue, anything better than this only if i go liquid. But i can understand the fears, no one wants the trouble of having their cards having any issue or worse, spitting flames. This could have changed my mind if i heard about this back in July, i almost went with a Strix since EVGA cards are taking too long to appear in local stores where i live.
 
Personally i'll just keep using the card as i have been always doing in the last few months and call EVGA should anything happen, i'm not a fanboy (this is my first EVGA card) but EVGA is the only brand to offer a 3 years warranty in my country, even Asus and Gigabyte offer only 1 year here. If an Asus card were to die after 1 year i was pretty much screwed up, with EVGA i can at least RMA it.
 
I'll keep following these discussions since it's something that is pretty hard to ignore, so far everything points out to be the VRM but i can't get this feeling off that something may be adding up to make that happen, maybe a combination of hot VRM with something else that people have yet to discover.
 
Take care everyone

shannonjpower
 
Neither does overclocking the core unless you're benching. Real world gains are roughly what 1-7fps more depending on clocks on the 1070's? Nothing really noticeable unless you're getting low fps to begin with. Guess it's free performance tho.

Gains from overclocking the gpu aren't so marginal, but yes. It's pretty much just for the sake of being a bench queen.