Is there a way to tell if a card recently purchased through Amazon has the fix applied?

Hi,
 
I have the EVGA GTX 1070 FTW DT and I am wondering if I am supposed to apply the primary and secondary VBIOS update? Or do I just apply the primary update? I am very confused as why there is a primary and a secondary vbios update.
 
Would it be safe if I don't apply any update at all because the card is working fine?
 
My Part Number (PN) is 86.04.1E.00.70
 
Thank you
 
Ari

If you have not changed anything on the card, then likely primary is the only one you will need.
 

So apparently I'm not the only one still "awaiting shipment".....

Would be nice to get that sorted out please, EVGA.

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I have a question, I updated the VBIOS and installed the pads on my SC Black Edition. Everything seams fine, but it looks like If I don't open EVGA Precesion software, the fan cure is still like it was before the update 0% when Idle. Is this normal ?
 
I prefer this fan curve as it makes the card dead silent. With the thermal pads installed is a fan curve with 0% fan speed when temps are lower than 50C is good enough ?.

This is normal. Precision X overrides the built in fan curve from the new bios. Don't use Precision X unless you OC. So yes, it's fine.

Xfade81

_inkubux_
I have a question, I updated the VBIOS and installed the pads on my SC Black Edition. Everything seams fine, but it looks like If I don't open EVGA Precesion software, the fan cure is still like it was before the update 0% when Idle. Is this normal ?
 
I prefer this fan curve as it makes the card dead silent. With the thermal pads installed is a fan curve with 0% fan speed when temps are lower than 50C is good enough ?.

This is normal. Precision X overrides the built in fan curve from the new bios. Don't use Precision X unless you OC.

Using MSI afterburner without messing with the fan curve I have noticed that the regular 1080 SC does idle at 0% fanspeed but once gaming and it hits over 50c it starts to jump up a good amount to around 30-40percent fan speed at the 60c ish range on the new bios. Before the bios update it only used to go to like 15% fan speed at about 60c and I had used percison x once back then but not since the bios update.

Nyres

Xfade81

_inkubux_
I have a question, I updated the VBIOS and installed the pads on my SC Black Edition. Everything seams fine, but it looks like If I don't open EVGA Precesion software, the fan cure is still like it was before the update 0% when Idle. Is this normal ?
 
I prefer this fan curve as it makes the card dead silent. With the thermal pads installed is a fan curve with 0% fan speed when temps are lower than 50C is good enough ?.

This is normal. Precision X overrides the built in fan curve from the new bios. Don't use Precision X unless you OC.

Using MSI afterburner without messing with the fan curve I have noticed that the regular 1080 SC does idle at 0% fanspeed but once gaming and it hits over 50c it starts to jump up a good amount to around 30-40percent fan speed at the 60c ish range on the new bios. Before the bios update it only used to go to like 15% fan speed at about 60c and I had used percison x once back then but not since the bios update.

 
Yes the new bios makes your fan go faster. Intended.

As I said we could really do with a BIOS between the original and the new one. Aiming at 1800rpm max.
 
For my standard ACX3.0 the fans went up from 1400-1500rpm to 2100rpm. Something in the middle would be nice.

So after the Bios update and the heat pads installation, my old overclock profile now crashes where as the before the bios update and the installation, it was 100% stable.
 
I took my time with the installation and there was no dust or etc and everything was cleaned with 99% isopropyl alcohol and there was no issues during the install...
 
Before, I was running the GTX 1070 FTW on the Uniengine Heaven benchmark at the + 100 mhz core/+ 300 mhz memory overclock with a 110% power target completely fine (hitting about 2 ghz stable in the auto overclock and 8.6 ghz memory, and now it crashes on the same settings...
 
What could be wrong? I'm running at default settings right now and it overclocks to about 2 ghz and then ramps down to 1.9 ghz core/4006 mhz memory during the benchmark and maxes out at about 65C... The temperature before crashing is still in the mid 60s so I don't think it's a poorly seated cooler/thermal compound.
 
Any ideas on what could be causing this if anyone is experiencing anything similar?
 
Edit: The default profile with auto overclocking results in a 1896 MHz core clock with a 4004 MHz memory clock.
 
After an hour or so of testing, at max power target of 112%, I was able to push the GPU to a maximum of +75 core/+600 memory that's stable. The maximum temperature was between 67 C to 69C for all benchmarks (including default profile). The shown clock in Precision XOC (through the OSD) was 1962 MHz Core and 4596 MHz Memory. This is still about 100 mhz short of what the GPU did beforehand... Everything else is stock. didn't mess with the fan settings.

With 3rd party thermal pads installed for VRAM, VRM and thermal grizzly conductonaut application to GPU, on %100 fan speed, GPU temp is highest 58C and VRM area (measurement from backplate of course) temps are highest 66C (both Furmark).  I see testing with custom fan profile not a good comparison between users, it will not help to understand efficiency of thermal pad mod application (different pads etc..) .