Woops Sorry just found this from Jacob. Takes a long time to read every page you know.....ahem.
 

It depends on the card.
 
For FTW:
Backplate Thermal Pad = 2mm
Baseplate Thermal Pad = 1mm
 
Other cards:
Backplate Thermal Pad = 2mm
Baseplate Thermal Pad = 1.5mm
 
I assume this is final? Just for piece of mind a yes or no from Jacob would be great. Then I will probably just do it myself. (Unless delivery evga pads arrive soon)

Nuwanda
I cannot stop thinking about the way the baseplate thermal pad is placed according to the thermal pad instructions.
It's not about placing it more to the right (where the mosfets are) or more to the left what worries me....
It's about placing the pad over a BIG HOLE. This way only a small percentage of the pad (the borders) is touching the baseplate metal surface.
What kind of thermal transfer we got from the mosfets to the main cooler if only a smal part of the thermal pad is touching the baseplate?
 
Cannot understand why the pad is not placed just avobe the mosfets making 100% contact with the baseplate.
 

I don't really get that either.

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. 
 

Is it hard to read text? It says it does all the work, all you have to do is press Y when asked. And then you ask how to disable the driver? OMG!

Gawg36
Woops Sorry just found this from Jacob. Takes a long time to read every page you know.....ahem.
 

It depends on the card.

For FTW:
Backplate Thermal Pad = 2mm
Baseplate Thermal Pad = 1mm

Other cards:
Backplate Thermal Pad = 2mm
Baseplate Thermal Pad = 1.5mm
 
I assume this is final? Just for piece of mind a yes or no from Jacob would be great. Then I will probably just do it myself. (Unless delivery evga pads arrive soon)

Anarion

Nuwanda
I cannot stop thinking about the way the baseplate thermal pad is placed according to the thermal pad instructions.
It's not about placing it more to the right (where the mosfets are) or more to the left what worries me....
It's about placing the pad over a BIG HOLE. This way only a small percentage of the pad (the borders) is touching the baseplate metal surface.
What kind of thermal transfer we got from the mosfets to the main cooler if only a smal part of the thermal pad is touching the baseplate?
 
Cannot understand why the pad is not placed just avobe the mosfets making 100% contact with the baseplate.
 

I don't really get that either.

It does not really matter as the big one on the back of the card covers those. It's not a double sided solution, more 1 per side. The smaller strip is an airflow solution for the chips below them.

Bios updated fine, had to reinstall Nvidia drivers though.
 
Before bios update I rarely went above 62 degrees.  Still grabbing pads for more insurance.

So the update is basically a fan profile?... Well i will apply it and see if i still use my custom...

And what about the secondary bios? Does someone know what will be the point of it?

Wyn10
 
Before bios update I rarely went above 62 degrees.  Still grabbing pads for more insurance.

The VRM arent monitored, the GPU temp you can see isnt the same thing. The VRM can be alot hotter and then go bang, you have no way of knowing. Go watch the youtube vid a few pages back.
 
Im on my third card. Until I get thermal pads, on this one I am:
- power target to 80%
- aggressive fan curve
- debug mode to underclock it
 
edit: youtube .com/watch?v=QCuEUqHj_cU

Hey EVGA! Did it worth to remove these 1USD pads from production of GPU? You were just going to design and test the GPU versus the worst condition that can be reached and put these pads onto VRMs. Complaining about Furmarks extreme testing conditions etc didn't help you and you had to admit and do something about this. This is not a good ad for you. 
"Quality means solving problems when no one is looking at it" so your admittance and support may look good but it is not enough to my standards. 
 
Let's get back to the issue; 
I couldn't read all 22 pages but read first 6 pages. I didn't see anyone asking if we need to update VBIOS if we apply pads.
1- So is pad application ultimate solution to the issue?
2- What is the spec of thermal pad you are sending? Thermal coefficient especially..
3- What is the actual distance between VRM - Heatsink and VRM - backplate? I am planning to use different pad solution. 
4- Is the heatsink copper or aluminium? I am going to apply grizzly's paste.

akteni
I couldn't read all 22 pages but read first 6 pages. I didn't see anyone asking if we need to update VBIOS if we apply pads.
1- So is pad application ultimate solution to the issue?
2- What is the spec of thermal pad you are sending? Thermal coefficient especially..
3- What is the actual distance between VRM - Heatsink and VRM - backplate? I am planning to use different pad solution. 
4- Is the heatsink copper or aluminium? I am going to apply grizzly's paste.

As stated,you can use one or the other update,you do not have to do both by any means. If you just adjust the fan speed up a little higher, it sufficiently cools the vrm.

#3, that is in the first post and posted multiple time directly above your post:

For FTW:
Backplate Thermal Pad = 2mm
Baseplate Thermal Pad = 1mm

Other cards:
Backplate Thermal Pad = 2mm
Baseplate Thermal Pad = 1.5mm

#4 nickel plated copper. Thermal Grizzly works great. It is what I use on all of my gpu's currently.