Go to your kitchen and maybe you found some tinfoil 
Are you diviner? If yes, write me the numbers of tzoker 
What's the point of terms? Only for exist? 
 

Why nobody answer about the thermal pad shipping ??? When you buy a top product, you hope this product have high quality so again what happened with the shipment??why is taking so long??why everyone request this thermal pad in october 2016 and you maybe ship until january 2017. 

Omarlink
Why nobody answer about the thermal pad shipping ??? When you buy a top product, you hope this product have high quality so again what happened with the shipment??why is taking so long??why everyone request this thermal pad in october 2016 and you maybe ship until january 2017. 

The question has been answered numerous times and ignored.

The pads are shipping as they are made. The have to be made and shipped to evga so that they can ship them to you.

EVGA VRM Test Planning: New Thermocouples

"First, a few of the sample photos we've been sent have shown blown FETs in a few specific spots on the board. Each seems to correspond with hotspots that we located with thermal imaging: The second MOSFET up and MOSFET #7/#8. Thermal imaging doesn't show us that side of the PCB, and thermal imaging also has a few flaws regarding emissivity of the surface of a thermal pad or backplate and regarding insulation of the hotspot by the thermal pad. These challenges are not present when just measuring the fan curve adjustment -- which we also did, and which we also showed -- but have been on the back of our minds since first exploring EVGA's VRM fracas. There's another problem that we'd already discussed, too: The PCB acts as another layer of material that can sink heat, and easily causes a delta of ~4C from one side to the other.
 .................
We'll see. There's a lot to be done, but this was a good start. We've been speaking with thermal engineers on methodology, so the testing has taken a little while to develop. We expect it'll be about another week to conduct all the testing, at which time we'll regroup with 'Buildzoid' to analyze the data."
 

darkheran

panaikas
Change after VBIOS ONLY: 109C to 95C
Change after Thermal Pad ONLY: 109C to 85C
Change after BOTH: 109C to 81C
darkheran
I find weird the big difference (24 temps down) of temps only by thermal pad that place at backplate (personal opinion).
I think EVGA might reconsider and design again the baseplate with acx cooler.

Well unless we are going to start throwing around claims of manufactured data and testing results id say the tests show otherwise. But that comes down to opinion and investigations and all that. If we want to go down that alley its far beyond anybody on this forums comprehension, resources, or ability to solve. Either we accept the test data given from multiple sources or we assume foul play. 

 
Here is some info for temps about backplate and pads http://forums.evga.com/how-does-the-backplate-work-to-reduce-temps-m2195469.aspx
 
http://forums.evga.com/FindPost/2195592

NordicJedi
As mentioned, the cooling is entirely passive.  In the past, I believe foam was used on some backplates.  Currently, the backplates mostly use thermal pads to draw off additional heat and avoid direct shorts/grounding.  With decent airflow in the system, it can pull a bit more heat off the metal of the backplate.  If you have a card overheating, this would not likely be a potential fix, but could take a couple degrees off your temps if you want it lower.  Really, though, it's more about the looks of the backplate than anything else.

That's why I find weird the big difference of 24C temps

Im eagerly awaiting the GN thermal testing just to see exactly what's going on underneath all these added thermal pads.

Hi there,
 
I tried to read as much as I could from this thread (probably more than 10 pages) but I didn't find anything to help me out. I downloaded the bios update, but when I start it my screen goes black. I waited about 15 minutes, but it never recovered. When I restarted the bios version was not listed, almost like my card wasn't detected. One restart later, everything was back to normal, but I have the old bios version.
 
I'm positive I downloaded the correct driver. Also, I found only two guys with similar problems - one for SLI (not applicable) and one that just said in the next post 'whoops, tried again and it worked, ez pz' so I have nothing to go on. I've tried multiple times. My card is 

• 08G-P4-5173-KR - EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC ACX 3.0 Black Edition - 

 
Can somebody help me?
 
Edit: Also forgot to mention, running Windows 7 and I'm not on an AMD platform

Got my replacement card today. Impressed with the fact that they were able to send it out so quickly even when being bombarded with calls.
 
I went the cross ship method. My only question is, is the return shipping supposed to be included or are we paying that out of pocket?

m0bbed
Question on the 06G-P4-6163-KR - EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC. For this model there is no Thermal Pad Kit available, only a BIOS Update .
 
What are the changes in the fan control? Is that Bios with the 0db Feature at IDLE mode?

Ask the same question.

When EVGA starts using their new flux capacitor, maybe the overheating issues will cease. I think this may be causing the mass panic and paranoia....not tinfoil hats.

BigBadJames
Hi there,
 
I tried to read as much as I could from this thread (probably more than 10 pages) but I didn't find anything to help me out. I downloaded the bios update, but when I start it my screen goes black. I waited about 15 minutes, but it never recovered. When I restarted the bios version was not listed, almost like my card wasn't detected. One restart later, everything was back to normal, but I have the old bios version.
 
I'm positive I downloaded the correct driver. Also, I found only two guys with similar problems - one for SLI (not applicable) and one that just said in the next post 'whoops, tried again and it worked, ez pz' so I have nothing to go on. I've tried multiple times. My card is 

• 08G-P4-5173-KR - EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC ACX 3.0 Black Edition - 

 
Can somebody help me?
 
Edit: Also forgot to mention, running Windows 7 and I'm not on an AMD platform

Try rebooting in safe mode, then unzip the 5173.zip, right click update.exe and run as admin. Should work in safe mode, I've read that other users have been successful that way.