witty245
after looking at the kit given by evga on you tube as i`m still weighting for mine. i`ve found that, i have some thermal grizzly past left would this be better than the one supplied by evga. or would evga one be the better option

Yours might weigh a little less.
 
.. The stuff EVGA ships is what they use in the factory. Make of this what you will.

teknomusik
So... is it possible to revert to the original BIOS?  I installed the thermal mod on my 1080 SC today and I'd rather go back to the quieter default profile, and boost really is disabled/not working, I'd really like to revert.

Ofcourse mate! Use your backup bios! You made a backup right ?

flaviossa

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.

The fix:
http://nvidia.custhelp.co...swers/detail/a_id/4260

falcompsx
I'd definitely reccomend not using this update. I'm really shocked no one has pointed this out yet and called out evga on such a shady move. My SC card is now slower than a founders edition, or ANY other 1080 for that matter.

Stop spreading false rumours. It's a NVIDIA error with the drivers.

90% of the thread turned into false rumors. Maybe 20-30 cards in the USA have exploded/blown up.

Erica647
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.

I've run Ubuntu 16.10 from a live CD and unfortunately Nouveau's stable branch has not been updated for Pascal yet.
 
And you will really want to be on the updated BIOS in that mode, otherwise your fans won't spin at all in Linux desktop. I'm a 1060 FTW+ owner though so my fans will forever remain non-spinning in Linux cause we're not getting a VBIOS update or Thermal pads. (installed my own thermal pad upgrade instead, now looking for a firmware engineer to make the VBIOS we're never going to get.)

HI!
 
How do I know if my BIOS is in Primary?

Just wanted to say that despite the unfortunate reality of this VRM situation, EVGA is still the best Nvidia vendor in the US for this very reason.  Their customer support is legendary, no other company connects with and supports their users like EVGA does, and as always, EVGA does right by their customers instead of ignoring them.
 
I will continue to buy EVGA with confidence, thanks to Jacob and the rest of the team for the timely response and proactive measures to make sure this issue is corrected.  I could have returned my 1070 SC to Best Buy or Advanced RMA'd it for a new unit, but I'll go ahead and do the thermal pad and BIOS mod myself to help them cut their losses.

Decided to install the latest BIOS version (86.06.39.00.62) like recommended after entering my serial number but ever since, my fans go absolutely nuts when I launch games. Any way I can fix this or is there any way to rollback to the previous version? 
 
Help would be appreciated

madvillain27
Decided to install the latest BIOS version (86.06.39.00.62) like recommended after entering my serial number but ever since, my fans go absolutely nuts when I launch games. Any way I can fix this or is there any way to rollback to the previous version? 

Help would be appreciated

Install an older bios. If you didn't back up your original one, try this one:
 
That's the one version older bios that was released to fix the memory overclocking problems some people had. I'm using this one without problems. I would maybe stay away from memory overclocking thou, unless you have received and installed your thermal pad mod, atleast if you are using a FTW card.
 
Edit: Ah, for some reason the URL wont show on the message. Just google:
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 BIOS Update v86.04.50.00.70 
 
Edit 2: This advice was useless if you have a 1080 card.