falcompsx
Gladly... See attached hwmonitor min/max values after a admittedly somewhat brief gaming session. Temps stay nicely around 72C, fans are screaming, but the gpu clock and memory clock are locked at 1709/5005. Never once has it boosted since applying this BIOS update.

 
Nope! Mine still boost perfectly after bios update. Stop spreading false information please.

falcompsx
Gladly... See attached hwmonitor min/max values after a admittedly somewhat brief gaming session. Temps stay nicely around 72C, fans are screaming, but the gpu clock and memory clock are locked at 1709/5005. Never once has it boosted since applying this BIOS update.

Using Nvidia driver 375.76.  Boost is there with bios update.
 

bingolong
Question for those with the 1070 FTW that have done the bios and both pad mods. What is the temp in Precision X OC temp while idling? 

From recently thermal pad modded 1070 FTW:
29°c at idle (0% fan).
65°c max temp running Unigine Heaven (Ultra) at 1440p, fan 34% max (1100rpm).
4x 140mm case fans. Ambient temp of only 14.5°c!

I use my rig for college and work. I have the new bios update for the Superclocked 1080, but should I still be worried about the possibility of it failing? I have an x99 motherboard, so I don't have on-board graphics which is why the news of failing 1080's kind of scares me. 

bingolong
Question for those with the 1070 FTW that have done the bios and both pad mods. What is the temp in Precision X OC temp while idling? 

I am running about 33C at idle with ambient temps at 20C
also full load on heaven 70C when overclocked at 50% fan speed
overclocks: core - 2126 Mhz
                Ram - 9500 Mhz

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/5dfjnh/evga_1070_ftw_catching_fire_live_on_stream/

Welp, nothing to see here folks. Remember it's all blown out of proportion. This whole thread is just hype.

Yep.

Hi i've just upgraded the firmware, it took about 3 sec after hitting Y....is that ok?
check the bios and it shows 86.04.3B.00.84

i have a 1080 ftw....

Can anyone confirm if that is good or it hasn't been upgraded?

You have a bingo!

Just done the thermal pad mod myself. Easy enough to do if you take care.
 
Was more than a little shocked to see that the thermal pads on the VRAM modules (IE. memory) closest to the VRM circuitry, appeared to have zero contact with the thermal pads. Not a sign of thermal grease on them. The other VRAM modules looked to have had partial contact. I know that a few people have commented on this already. But had sort of assumed that it was just a few isolated cases. It just looks like to me, that EVGA plain and simple, used pads that were not thick enough. The "optional" (EVGA's words) thermal pad kit that they are sending out, has new pads for the VRAM modules and they are a fair bit thicker. Got to be honest, I would consider this mod more than "optional". At least as far as the thermal pads on the VRAM modules, I would definitely consider this as a manufacturing defect!
 
Just thought I'd mention the above. Just in case anyone is thinking that these mods are "optional".
Only my opinion/s folks, not looking for a flame (sic) war.

Has anyone tried installing Linux since updating this firmware?  I've tried the latest versions of Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and OpenSUSE.  What I'm seeing is that the mouse cursor gets stuck at the top left corner as soon as the gui appears and it will not move.  I've tried different "known good" mice and different ports (USB) and they all do the same thing.  Windows 10 works fine with both the mice and same ports.  I don't know if this has anything at all to do with this issue but it was working fine before.  Is it even remotely possible that the video card firmware could have anything to do with this?  I'm running an EVGA 1070 FTW card.