I dont like the bios update, its a good first step but seriously the sound level will be terrible. Watch this (around 6:30)
[tube]https://youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0eAylzl0o[/tube]
 
Using the thermal pad the card will be much cooler without the fan going crazy. EVGA should do RMA and also apply the thermal pads. I dont want to do that myself.
I have already made a RMA request. If this is such a great company as people use to say it will be accepted.
I did not pay this much for a loud card like the video shows. With the pads the card is what it should have been from the start. Its up to proof now if EVGA has a good customer service.

vampyren
I dont like the bios update, its a good first step but seriously the sound level will be terrible. Watch this (around 6:30)
www. youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0eAylzl0o
 
Using the thermal pad the card will be much cooler without the fan going crazy. EVGA should do RMA and also apply the thermal pads. I dont want to do that myself.
I have already made a RMA request. If this is such a great company as people use to say it will be accepted.
I did not pay this much for a loud card like the video shows. With the pads the card is what it should have been from the start. Its up to proof now if EVGA has a good customer service.

From what I heard a moderator point out earlier in the thread you need to use tube not youtube to embed the video you are attempting to embed

Jesus, this thing is starting to look like a huge mess.  So much information/miss-information in this thread.
 
EVGA, all I wanted was an awesome card.  Instead my 1080 classified is starting to look like a $750 liability.  While I am technically capable to perform the bios update and thermal pad fixes EVGA is asking, I feel that I should not have do mess with this after paying for such a premium product.
 
With that, I requested an RMA with a completely new card.  I am still within my 30 days of purchase from MC.  I am monitoring how this thread is developing today/tomorrow and weighing my options.  Right now, I am fairly close to just returning my card and getting something else from another manufacturer.

Luta Wicasa
Bob...you're bios isn't even up yet......

I realized it when I double checked my part number.  I did a step up and originally EVGA offered me the upgrade to 6183, so I had the PN stuck in my head.  With the wait going on three months, I backtracked to the original step up to 6181.  When I saw the bios upgrade...I kept thinking 6183...my mistake.

bobmitch

Luta Wicasa
Bob...you're bios isn't even up yet......

I realized it when I double checked my part number.  I did a step up and originally EVGA offered me the upgrade to 6183, so I had the PN stuck in my head.  With the wait going on three months, I backtracked to the original step up to 6181.  When I saw the bios upgrade...I kept thinking 6183...my mistake.

Makes sense :P Happens. Best of luck if you flash when the new one releases!

darkheran

vampyren
I dont like the bios update, its a good first step but seriously the sound level will be terrible. Watch this (around 6:30)
www. youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0eAylzl0o
 
Using the thermal pad the card will be much cooler without the fan going crazy. EVGA should do RMA and also apply the thermal pads. I dont want to do that myself.
I have already made a RMA request. If this is such a great company as people use to say it will be accepted.
I did not pay this much for a loud card like the video shows. With the pads the card is what it should have been from the start. Its up to proof now if EVGA has a good customer service.

From what I heard a moderator point out earlier in the thread you need to use tube not youtube to embed the video you are attempting to embed

What is tube? is it not allowed to put youtube link? (if so sorry for that, that was just a great video with facts i think people would have interest in).


 

AdamInk

I really hope you are right... because if I really need them with no overclocking and an agressive curve fan, I think those pads are definitively not an option...

If you and i or someone else really need them or everyone EVGA would said that you have to do it, you have to aply the pads. However they said in the statement its an -option- for thoose who wants additional cooling :)

If it is an option, EVGA will be fine, If a user don't apply any BIOS nor install the pads, nor send it back to apply both. One is untitled to not take any if they are OPTIONS.
 
(Also do you see the word "need" when they say "* Founders Edition, Blower type, HYBRID, and HYDRO COPPER cards do not need these updates."...meaning the others DO NEED.)
 
My little finger tells me that EVGA is not comfortable AT ALL with this scenario, knowing that the card WILL burn down in few months, that's a lot of RMA to come.

 

Do we have any forecast for 08G-P4-6181-KR model?

Installed the new bios on my Gtx 1080 SC. Fann speed is a litle to extreme! 2100.rpm 56% at 69.c!!

@:ivadjon
I totally agree, bios update is fine but for such a premium card i should not have to take it appart and do what they ask us to do even if they claim its optional.
All the videos i seen shows that the thermal pads make a huge difference keeping the heat down and without the fan going extremly loud. The whole point when i selected this card was the quiet fans. Now with this bios it can go up to 2200rpm which is crazy. Normally i goes to 1600RPM and with the pads it will be around 86 degree which is totally fine.
Hopefully my RMA will also be approved so i can swap this for a new card with the thermal pads. Otherwise its going back to the shop.