It would most certainly put my mind at ease and make me buy EVGA again in the future, it tells me that they care if they screwed up. Sure... the thermal pads fix is on it's way, but I am still concerned that my products life span has been effected.

Must admit that I tend to agree with this. Thinking about it, if nothing goes wrong with the cards in the relevant warranty period, then this would cost EVGA nothing in reality to do. Especially when you consider that most (obviously not all) PC enthusiast don't tend to keep their cards much more than 2 years anyway (think my average is 18 months).
 
Though remember guys, unless they make special provision, the extended warranty is "not transferable" (IE. only the stock 3 year warranty is).

I paid to extend the warranty on my GTX 1080 FTW, when i purchased it in early July. If evga extended the warranty on select GTX 1070/1080 cards, i think that would help put customers mind at ease.  I have seen lots of people wonder if the extra heat has shorten the lifespan of the graphic card. 
 
 

WebTourist, Agreed. This is my First EVGA Graphics Card. Purchased about 40 days ago...just past the 30 days to return to Amazon. The black screens I have encountered with this card has NOT instilled confidence. A Free Extended Warranty would at least provide confidence that EVGA does value its customers by standing by its products. I am also a bit offended by EVGA's request for Free Labor to install these thermal pads (yes I understand there is a cross shipping offer). As it stands now, I am very unlikely to make a future EVGA purchase.

ibicip
WebTourist, Agreed. This is my First EVGA Graphics Card. Purchased about 40 days ago...just past the 30 days to return to Amazon. The black screens I have encountered with this card has NOT instilled confidence. A Free Extended Warranty would at least provide confidence that EVGA does value its customers by standing by its products. I am also a bit offended by EVGA's request for Free Labor to install these thermal pads (yes I understand there is a cross shipping offer). As it stands now, I am very unlikely to make a future EVGA purchase.

I wouldn't write off evga for graphics cards over one mishap. EVGA does value it's customers. Give them a call and they will work with you to get a replacement sent out as soon as possible.
 

A month ago  I ordered Evga 1060 FTW for my frend and was even worse.
After 15 minutes BF4 it passed 80 degrees and I sent it back to the caseking.

I don't think 80°C is necessarily bad for core temp, just without the pad fix the memory is probably past the 95°C limit.
 
This image shows 64% fan speed - 79°C core, and VRM area at 100°C but note that that is with furmark, with TDP at nigh on 100%

 
This image shows 90% fan speed - core at 71°C and the VRM area at 88°C, again, furmark, so I'd assume actualy VRM area to be less with TDP at 80-90% which is the most I've seen in games so far
 

 
so, super rough guestimations, but it would seem that the VRAM/VRM will be quite safe in most if not any scenario with the fan speed set to 85% or up
 
but, my god, I feared the contents of the room were going to be dragged into the singularity event that was my pc chassis when I set the fan speed to 90%. couldn't live with that!

I dont understand how he manages to have temperatures like this with 90% fans... 

ilyama
I dont understand how he manages to have temperatures like this with 90% fans... 

Its FurMark which totally taxes the GPU to the max

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ilyama
I dont understand how he manages to have temperatures like this with 90% fans... 

Its FurMark which totally taxes the GPU to the max

Which is why it is an unrealistic benchmark