Legacy-ZA
Oh great, I just logged on and saw this thread. I requested my thermal mod, but it looks like I might need more thermal pads if my VRAM is exposed... I hope you guys are going to send some extra thermal pads with the thermal "mod"... just to be sure.

If I were from evga technical support group, I would indeed include, extra thermal pad with thickness of 1.5mm in `thermalmod`  package, just in case user got gaps under the dark plate, like many of us do, it would ease the life for them and also for evga, since they would avoid extra QQ topics, and one additional pad doesnt cost them anything. At least that would be the racional thnking behind all this, I sincerely hope that they read this and do this right, I still havent played bf1 since all this fiasco started I was moding my card, posting threads and in genaral doing anything else besides gaming :D, stuck on lvl 28 like a bambie

I cant see any Pictures in the first post :(
 
I am interested in doing all that therefore some Fotos would be very helpful

m0bbed
I cant see any Pictures in the first post :(
 
I am interested in doing all that therefore some Fotos would be very helpful

I think the hosting site is having issues right now. The pictures stopped showing up for me as well.

Hello,
Is this only a FTW model issue? I have a GTX 1070 SC and I am wondering if this is also happening with that model

Ugugu can you upload your photos again to another site because those from first post doesnt work

Give me a second guys, I will reupload pictures, it appears tinypic stopped to host em.

malon
Hello,
Is this only a FTW model issue? I have a GTX 1070 SC and I am wondering if this is also happening with that model

I think SC line was affected as well, but yeah mainly FTW, but check again I'm not 100% sure about SC, I red somewhere before in evga forums that SC also had similar issues, never the less if you got SC card open it up and make sure that all pads are firmly connected to components, by that I mean a proper indentations in pads, if there is a good mold you know that a pad is making a good contact.

There are a bunch of reports in a german forum about gaps between vram and plate (for both SC and FTW cards). I wonder how something like this can be missed. 

Would it be ok to use 1.5mm thick pad for "wide pad"?
Because i really can buy big piece of 1.5mm thick pad and cut it for 8 vram chips, narrow pad and wide pad and still have leftovers..

NeroRay
There are a bunch of reports in a german forum about gaps between vram and plate (for both SC and FTW cards). I wonder how something like this can be missed. 

Its called poor quality control, because if something looks good and matches on paper or 2DCAD, doesnt mean  its the same in real life. My assumption is they failed to validate the finished product firstly. Also funny how all review sites, tom's, gamersnexus, fudzilla and others, when the cards first came out and got disassembled to give us a inside looks in cooler and temps, no1 of them bothered to check gaps and point thermal gun at backplate of the card, and surely few months later when cards started to pop, under a real life use or just bad luck, all of suddenly report started to come in with issues, after all people had purchased these cards. Maybe the evga is the only company who makes money by RMA :D, because they still ship cards out with old think 1mm pads that goes over Vram and VRMs, they havent updated the ''thermalmod'' If this how ever continues we might see a new line of reports that have damaged vrams and vrms pretty soon as well as a second ''thermalmod'', like I said before they could avoid this by adding an extra pad into their current mod pack, all they have to do is calculate 2 sections to cover: 8xVrams (1.5mmX14mmX12mm)and 1x VRMs line (1.5mmX~6-7mmX105mm).