Avolate
I was playing battlefield 1 with the normal fan curve an my GPU temps were reaching 80c and my PC was feeling Very hot on top.  When I put the fan curve to Aggressive it drops down to 69-70c and my PC case does not feel as hot.
 
 Without the fan on aggressive my pc case is heating up alot.

If you turn up your fans, it will move more heat out of the card and into the case, so it should heat up your case more. If turning up the GPU fan makes your case cooler, it could only be explained by bad airflow in the case being assisted by the GPU cooler. Maybe turn up your case fans. Maybe placebo.

midnightblackgt
Is it me or is this a lame fix. We were sold a card that was advertised with low temps and low noise now we run this new vbios and lose performance that we paid for, I call shenanigans and request a refund on basis of false claims who is with me ✊

Try the BIOS update. The noise increase is basically unnoticable. I understand your concerns, I shared them too, but when I tried it, I realised my custom curve was already FAR louder than the new BIOS stock curve. Honestly, you will only notice a volume increase if you're pushing your fans to near-maximum, in which case they were already heaps loud and you obviously aren't concerned with sound levels because you're be running your fans at max to OC it heavily.

I'm in a fortuitous(*) situation concerning this issue. Roughly 10 days ago I placed an order for new PC on a big German online retailer (Mindfactory). My order included a GTX 1070 FTW Gaming ACX 3.0. However my order is held back waiting for some Samsung 960 Pro SSD's, which won't be arriving for another 2 weeks at least. I contacted the retailer today and they confirmed they are waiting for a shipment from EVGA, which will include my purchase. So I assume that if my card has been shipped already it happened very near to November first. Now I need to know what the deal is with brand new cards.
 
Having read all the 20 pages I still have not found an official confirmation to a question asked many times over: Will brand new cards be shipped with JUST the updated bios, or BOTH the updated bios and thermal pads applied? So far I found someone saying "no thermal pads will EVER be applied by EVGA(unconfirmed)" as well as a few people referring to the original post saying pads WILL BE installed. However the OP only says the new bios will be installed on cards shipped after 11/1/2016 and makes no mention of the pads. In fact, the general tone of the OP is the pads are OPTIONAL and definitely not needed.
 
Then there's this post: 

ilyama
The good news is that EVGA has  of thermal pads for DIY modding by users. In our discussion with EVGA's Jacob Freeman on the phone, we also learned that EVGA would replace users' cards at no charge to the user. An owner would have to send the device in to EVGA in order to receive a new device with the thermal pads pre-applied. EVGA's thermal pad mod brings operating temperature of the VRM closer to 75C, which is actually pretty damn good. That allows more than enough amperage to the GPU, and ensures more efficient operation. The company deserves credit for this rapid response and free solution to an issue that we are still trying to understand.
We have also been informed that the factory is now making changes to products as they ship, ensuring that new batches of the GTX 1080 FTW and 1070 FTW products will include thermal pads pre-installed.
 

However the validity of this quote cannot be verified as the post does not specify who actually is on the phone having a discussion with Jacob Freeman.
 
Any chance we can finally get a confirmation that new cards will have the pads? I spend a lot of time researching parts and building a super quiet gaming rig. I will not have a haphazardly MacGyvered GPU making noise when it was purchased under the pretense of being one of the most quiet GPU's available (it was not the most silent, I know, however the EVGA brand was enough to stamp out the competition). Since the cards run cooler with the pads and old bios than no pads and new bios, I'd like to opt to keeping the promised noise levels with slightly less cooling (still more cooling than what the bios update alone gives, which is apparently already enough in itself).
 
(*by fortuitous situation I mean I was already prepared for a long wait anyway, so said waiting issue gives me plenty of time to decide whether I will keep the order as it is, or if I should ask the retailer to replace the GPU with the more expensive competition I almost bought before opting to get the EVGA. Still, even with all this going on, I'd rather get what I originally ordered, providing the issue at hand has indeed been properly remedied)

ilyama

gregoryv

ilyama

Xavi91
Can you guys share the new curve please?

I'm asking to everyone with the new bios and some evga guys, no answer at all, I begin to think it's a legend 

 
This is the one ? They put the 0db in the garbage in the process ? Seems weird...

No. My card is idling at 38C (ambient inside the case is 34C, it's a warm day in Australia) and 0% fan.

Evil_Betox
My thermal pads request also changed to "Awaiting Shipment".

Changed for everyone it seems.

midnightblackgt
Is it me or is this a lame fix. We were sold a card that was advertised with low temps and low noise now we run this new vbios and lose performance that we paid for, I call shenanigans and request a refund on basis of false claims who is with me ✊

You haven't lost any performance. Heck it might even have gained some in the long run. It's not as if 200rpm is audible in a case.

DeathAngel74
Ok, I'm sick of this crap. You all sound like a bunch of whiney, hungry, spoiled babies. Sorry to everyone that has experienced misfortune, cards sparking, blown cards(I don't mean you!). Everyone except a few are rude, entitled, and some aren't very intelligent. If you are unhappy, return the card for a full refund if you can, otherwise shush.....eVGA is not obligated to give us anything. They are doing it because they are committed to customer satisfaction. They could have told us all to eff off and left us high and dry without bios updates/ and / or FREE thermal pads. Once and for all, this has to stop! Be grateful they are trying to help us because we are staying loyal to them as customers. If you don't like it, get your money back and buy from another AIB vendor. Every other post is someone wanting a free backplate or free hybrid kit, etc. "Please sir, may I have some more?"
Enough is enough, this is getting ridiculous already. 
To the mods: I apologize but I've had enough! I accept full responsibility for any infractions I may receive.

Yeah that worked real well for Microsoft and the RROD right?
 
EVGA is wholly responsible for this screw up. Now I'm not one to freak out too much, if my video card dies I RMA it and I keep RMAing until things are right. However, it does depreciate EVGA a bit as a holistic quality graphics card builder...
 
I don't know why people are saying only 200RPM difference because people are really seeing more like 800RPM difference, and >10db. That's very noticable, even in a case.
 
Anyways, my case is both quiet and cool, and I don't want a louder video card.

Millimonger
I'm in a fortuitous(*) situation concerning this issue. Roughly 10 days ago I placed an order for new PC on a big German online retailer (Mindfactory). My order included a GTX 1070 FTW Gaming ACX
*snip*

I wouldn't really count on it. Just the vbios. The new noiselevels seem fine for most. You can just get the card and check. Gamersnexus etc are retesting, and will include audio. You have European webshop rights. You can return it in 14 days no questions asked. As what options you have, the thermal pad fix is nothing hard to do in particular. It might be a matter of aestethics, or the willingness to do it yourselves. Perhaps you can, when you have the card, ask for a RMA and just ask if they can install the pads for you. If they won't you could then decide to stick with the card or not.

I applied the bios update to my 1080sc and it appears to now have issues regulating the fan speed properly. During a session of Killing Floor 2 I noticed the fan continuously ramping up and down from normal load speeds (~1500RPM) to extremely high speeds (3500+ RPM) and never settling down. The temperatures and GPU load during this are very stable and barely fluctuate. GPU Core temp sits around 70c. This appears to happen with any GPU intensive task such as rendering and any GPU intensive game. The fan speed fluctuations also appear to continue after the load has stopped and the card has cooled off with the fans sitting around 700RPM then jumping to around double that and back down again. I haven't done anything to the card or settings besides install the new bios update and change to "Prefer Max Performance" and "Single Display Performance Mode" in the nvidia control panel.
 
Now this fan issue could have been happening before the update as I never really paid any attention to the fan speeds because I couldn't hear them, but after the bios update the card is reaching fan speeds it never used to and is definitely noticeable and very loud. Not exactly sure what to think of this, anybody else experiencing it?

Question is the EVGA GTX 1080 Classified affected by this issue?