Hello ,sir 
 
i am from china ,i just bought a 1080 FTW from amazon.us  2weeks ago , and then i found this terrible issue online ,however i have not had any of these thermal problem myself but i am still worried about it. so for me, how can i apply these thermal pads , i have requested them on your website 3 days ago and i still have not get any replys yet ? 
 
for the worst case ,if i can not get  thermal pads from evga, which 3rd part brand thermal pads i should buy? whats the conductivity of your offical thermal pads?  thanks in advance 
 
Best Regards
Carl

z3phon

Scarlet-Tech
Every bios update requires the driver to be shut off for the update, so that was why everything went all crazy scaling on you. That is normal, and when you are doing your own flash, you have to disable the driver in the device manager window yourself. This just does all the work, minus a press of the Y button.

How do I disable the driver. 
 

You don't have to do it manually. Just follow the guide in the first page.

Mine is Master(selected)/Slave
Which one is Primary? which one is Secondary?
GTX 1070 FTW

on the switch...  <----primary, ----->secondary

dexters
Do I need to get thermal pads if i update the bios?  Or are the pads optional.

They claim the pads are optional after the new vbios.
But keep this in mind. The new fan curve in the new bios dropped the VRM temps from 114c to 95c in some tests on a GTX 1080 FTW. The thermal pads alone dropped the VRM temps to 85c. Get the pads is my recomendation. Those thermal pads were supposed to be there from the start.

I just hope it doesn't affect my incoming 1080 Classy. Might stick with my 980ti classy atm.

I have GTX 1080 classy and i don't have any problems so far classy models has much better designed PCB than FTW and has 7 Celsius degree less than FTW model without any modifications. But I'm waiting for thermal pads and new bios and I'm gonna upgrade all necessary so my card time life is gonna be better.

So I see all these bios part numbers end with KR, does that mean BR part number people need to wait for a new bios specifically for them?

solasoft
I have GTX 1080 classy and i don't have any problems so far classy models has much better designed PCB than FTW and has 7 Celsius degree less than FTW model without any modifications. But I'm waiting for thermal pads and new bios and I'm gonna upgrade all necessary so my card time life is gonna be better.

Thank you for replying a good feed back on the 1080 Classy. Im not loosing hope with EVGA. Its my 6th time having EVGA Products since my EVGA x79 burned out.

kr, kb, br same difference. I forget the designation, warranty code maybe?