Please let me know if this is the way it should be - I'm on a 1070 FTW:
 
1) Switch on "main" - update BIOS primary (6276.zip), restart PC, check system info - it's the new version 86.04.50.00.72.
2) Switch on "slave" - update BIOS secondary (6276_2.zip), restart PC, check system info - it's the new version 86.04.50.01.72.
3) Switch back on "main" - check system info, it's version 86.04.50.01.72.
 

I've been through a good amount of pages and haven't seen it clearly answered.

Does the over heating issues effect a 1070 sc? I keep my fans around 80% and keep the card 60c or cooler, will this ever be a problem for me?

See the very first post in this thread, page 1.

trevor42088
I've been through a good amount of pages and haven't seen it clearly answered.

Does the over heating issues effect a 1070 sc? I keep my fans around 80% and keep the card 60c or cooler, will this ever be a problem for me?

A good couple of pages. Except page 1 and the first post. Nice.
Keeping your fans that high does not look like a good solution. I suggest getting the new bios instead.

Aristoc69
normally what should happen is you take your card to the store and the store gives you a new card. that is what the company should offer. you shouldn't need a receipt as it is obvious what brand and card you have.  this would be truly standing behind the products and respecting the customers. RMA with a credit card really is not the best way to deal with this. neither is repairing your own card. 

You do realise that's something only the store can do right? EVGA can't go in contact with every store, since they don't even know who they are. They don't ship to stores, they ship to warehouses.
 
EVGA offers you to bypass the store. Since the store will just tell you to shoo, since the card is not broken. Don't forget, unless you ordered via EVGA, you did not pay your money to EVGA. You paid to the store. EVGA only gets their cut.

Minor emergency:
 
The BIOS updater is stalled and doing nothing.
 
I closed all other programs and ran it with admin privileges. It identified my video card, asked 'y' to confirm / 's' to skip / 'a' to abort. I pressed 'y'. 
 
It has since been sitting doing nothing visible for 30 minutes. No messages, no change, no nothing. Pressing 'y'/'s'/'a' again does nothing. Enter does nothing. Esc does nothing.
 
I'm assuming it should have been completed within seconds. Am I safe to simply reboot? Should I exit the updater and relaunch it without rebooting?
 
Swift advice would be appreciated if anyone at EVGA is still monitoring the thread. I don't really want to bork my video card over choosing poorly how to proceed, nor do I want to leave the entire PC sitting running like this until I hear back.

trevor42088
I've been through a good amount of pages and haven't seen it clearly answered.

Does the over heating issues effect a 1070 sc? I keep my fans around 80% and keep the card 60c or cooler, will this ever be a problem for me?

Yes, and there is no reason not to flash the VBIOS. I also run a 1070 SC and it was easy. Simply extract the download related to your part number, extract it to your desktop or whatnot, make sure you aren't running other applications, and double click the executable in the extracted folder. It will check for your card, once that is done you simply need to enter Y to begin the firmware update. It takes a few seconds gives a very fast update successful message before the prompt closes and then you restart your computer to finish the update. Then you can confirm your VBIOS matches in Nvidia control panel > System information or another utility like GPU-Z 

Xfade81

trevor42088
I've been through a good amount of pages and haven't seen it clearly answered.

Does the over heating issues effect a 1070 sc? I keep my fans around 80% and keep the card 60c or cooler, will this ever be a problem for me?

A good couple of pages. Except page 1 and the first post. Nice.
Keeping your fans that high does not look like a good solution. I suggest getting the new bios instead.

You do realize that the purpose of the new bios is to increase the native fan speed of the card at certain temperatures? So if he is keeping his fans at 80% with a program like Afterburner or PrecisionX, that is the exact same result as flashing the new bios. I am not worried about rushing to get the new bios because I always make my own fan curve to keep my card cool anyways.

clocked970
 
You do realize that the purpose of the new bios is to increase the native fan speed of the card at certain temperatures? So if he is keeping his fans at 80% with a program like Afterburner or PrecisionX, that is the exact same result as flashing the new bios. I am not worried about rushing to get the new bios because I always make my own fan curve to keep my card cool anyways.

I don't see him talking about a curve. It might even be running at the same temp with a lower speed than his 80% one.

clocked970

Xfade81

trevor42088
I've been through a good amount of pages and haven't seen it clearly answered.

Does the over heating issues effect a 1070 sc? I keep my fans around 80% and keep the card 60c or cooler, will this ever be a problem for me?

A good couple of pages. Except page 1 and the first post. Nice.
Keeping your fans that high does not look like a good solution. I suggest getting the new bios instead.

You do realize that the purpose of the new bios is to increase the native fan speed of the card at certain temperatures? So if he is keeping his fans at 80% with a program like Afterburner or PrecisionX, that is the exact same result as flashing the new bios. I am not worried about rushing to get the new bios because I always make my own fan curve to keep my card cool anyways.

This is not entirely true. First id wager constant 80% as needless excessive fan wear. The irony being that one does so out of fear of flashing the BIOS (while raising the potential of another entirely different problem)  Secondly, the max RPM's were changed. I.E. the percentages pertaining to previous BIOS' do not match those of the current.