Thisiswar88
after benching using heaven for a good 2 hours this is the hottest the back plate got near the vrm. Maybe I'm just lucky but this is still pretty cool. 
 
http://prnt.sc/d24ozp

The hottest mine gets before the thermal pads is 57c and after is 62c.. This is normal. The companies causing the panic are using furmark with modified drivers so that the program isn't throttled to cause so much heat.

Nvidia throttles furmark with drivers, because it has been causing severe heat issues for many years.

Andorphine
My 1070FTW is my first EVGA card and now this... I chose for it because it was supposed to be silent, cool, 2slot, and EVGA was said to be a quality brand. 
 
After the BIOS update it won't be silent anymore and one of my main reasons for this purchase got obsolete. And seriously EVGA, you are expecting me to tear apart a €470 card to fix your mess? You got to be kidding me... I don't buy such an expensive "quality" brand to spend my spare time in fixing issues. This is ridiculous.
 
The least that I would expect is a free RMA or a free extension to 5 year warranty (just to be safe about long term effects of this issue). 

I thought evga was going to be amazing this time round but having issues with the pipes not hitting the chip on the 900 series and now this. Don't get me wrong the temps on this card are very cool and the fan noise is unbelievably silent, even at 40/45% fan speed I barely hear them and it keeps below 60c at all times, couldn't ask for any better but this vrm issue just ruins everything.
 
I just hope my 10 year warranty with evga serves me well, Their support is amazing, I just hope their future cards aren't going to have any more issues.

GFAFS

ilyama
Shame on EVGA... dont understand why there isnt a free RMA service for every customer...
 
In fact, I understand, money money... like they tried to spare with those thermal pads 

Right now they are waiting for the story to blow on their faces to act, "Typical", they should not, because it will if they don't react fast enough and make the right move. They're not afraid yet by a 4 pages thread, but mark my words it'll be 20 times more in a few days.
I think my 100K subscribers will love my future IR/thermal video of the card - Handling 3DSmax with GPU rendering.
 
Anyway, wait and see.

I think you're right... for the moment there arent enough dead graphic cards for them..
 
If it comes, they will change direction... I hope not...
 
But we also need more information, what really happened to theses dead graphic cards ?

Are we all simply "waiting" that the same thing happen to us ?

Scarlet-Tech

Thisiswar88
after benching using heaven for a good 2 hours this is the hottest the back plate got near the vrm. Maybe I'm just lucky but this is still pretty cool. 
 
http://prnt.sc/d24ozp

The hottest mine gets before the thermal pads is 57c and after is 62c.. This is normal. The companies causing the panic are using furmark with modified drivers so that the program isn't throttled to cause so much heat.

Nvidia throttles furmark with drivers, because it has been causing severe heat issues for many years.

good to hear man, but like andorphine said paying premium price for a so called premium gpu company and best selling gpu company for that matter,  we shouldn't have to install this ourselves/do bios updates.
 
Not all of us are good at taking things apart and rebuilding same with bios updates it can go tits up if you don't do it right and what will happen if you damage the card while putting the thermal pads on? if this thing blows it blows it and if it does it's getting rma'd for evga to deal with, it shouldn't be down to consumers to deal with it. I can smell a law suit if this gets worse.

Scarlet-Tech

Thisiswar88
after benching using heaven for a good 2 hours this is the hottest the back plate got near the vrm. Maybe I'm just lucky but this is still pretty cool. 
 

The hottest mine gets before the thermal pads is 57c and after is 62c.. This is normal. The companies causing the panic are using furmark with modified drivers so that the program isn't throttled to cause so much heat.

Nvidia throttles furmark with drivers, because it has been causing severe heat issues for many years.

Why are they getting so hot then? Makes no sense..

Scarlet-Tech
Watercooling provides silent cards with very low fan speeds on the cooler. Air cooling can not provide the same type of cooling, so higher fan speeds are going to be required to remove heat.

Watercooling provides lower temps for better OC, not silent cards.
 

Sajin

shannonjpower 
I'm slightly confused tho, I just looked at the instructions again and we are meant to apply the pad ontop of the chokes??? Is this correct? Chokes don't normally get hot and require active cooling? Is the pad meant to go behind the chokes towards the back of the card where the mosfest sits as this is where most heat would be generated. Seems a tad odd to be using the chokes to carry heat from the VRM section considering they also don't make any contact with the midplate itself.

I don't think the pad should be installed on top of the chokes. Looks like an error in the instructions to me. The pad should be installed where the mosfet's are located.
 

As I can see the installation guide is rough, I see first time to put so much large surface of thermal pads.
Sajin when there is an asnwer if it is correct or not?
 
 

The worst in that, is that they claim that thermal pads are a free mod like it's a gift for customers..  Amazingly bold to do that...

And ask us to open the card, is this the first time in graphic cards history that a brand ask that to his customers ?
I'm not gonna do that because IT'S NOT MY JOB to do that, I paid 450 euros to have a definitive product... 
 
Really EVGA, you can be happy to have such a support RMA service reputation, because if you lose that, this is the end for you 

Eagleizer

Scarlet-Tech

Thisiswar88
after benching using heaven for a good 2 hours this is the hottest the back plate got near the vrm. Maybe I'm just lucky but this is still pretty cool. 

The hottest mine gets before the thermal pads is 57c and after is 62c.. This is normal. The companies causing the panic are using furmark with modified drivers so that the program isn't throttled to cause so much heat.

Nvidia throttles furmark with drivers, because it has been causing severe heat issues for many years.

Why are they getting so hot then? Makes no sense..

I removed the bold you applied, and added bold to the part you overlooked. They used modified drivers to remove the throttling. The cards don't get nearly as hot as they make it look with the modified drivers. That was done as an absolute worst case scenario.

ilyama
The worst in that, is that they claim that thermal pads are a free mod like it's a gift for customers..  Amazingly bold to do that...

And ask us to open the card, is this the first time in graphic cards history that a brand ask that to his customers ?
I'm not gonna do that because IT'S NOT MY JOB to do that, I paid 450 euros to have a definitive product... 
 
Really EVGA, you can be happy to have such a support RMA service reputation, because if you lose that, this is the end for you 

They already stated in the first post in this thread.. If you are not comfortable opening the card, they will RMA it and apply the thermal pads.

Do you know why other companies won't ask you to do anything yourself? Because they have anti tamper stickers on their cards. EVGA allows users to install aftermarket coolers and even use extreme cooling measures while being covered by warranty, where other companies void your warranty for trying to change the thermal paste.

Scarlet-Tech

ilyama
The worst in that, is that they claim that thermal pads are a free mod like it's a gift for customers..  Amazingly bold to do that...

And ask us to open the card, is this the first time in graphic cards history that a brand ask that to his customers ?
I'm not gonna do that because IT'S NOT MY JOB to do that, I paid 450 euros to have a definitive product... 
 
Really EVGA, you can be happy to have such a support RMA service reputation, because if you lose that, this is the end for you 

They already stated in the first post in this thread.. If you are not comfortable opening the card, they will RMA it and apply the thermal pads.

Do you know why other companies won't ask you to do anything yourself? Because they have anti tamper stickers on their cards. EVGA allows users to install aftermarket coolers and even use extreme cooling measures while being covered by warranty, where other companies void your warranty for trying to change the thermal paste.

So the RMA service for that issue, this is not a brand new card with pads already installed ?
 
This is a RMA service who puts the pads for you on your own card ? And no free shipping costs ?