Sir Petus
what a joke of a company btw

Actually they react very fast on problem compare to other IT companies.
Thermal pads work and that's most important. Companies need to pay attention in future more, remember what happen with ASUS on GTX780Ti and
ASUS Radeon R9-290X and Matrix cards without heatsink on VRM. They had much higher temperature than other models 2 years. Because of that in future I think all models with dual coolers should arrive with nice metal heatsink and thermal pads over VRM and memory no matter on power consumption of card...
on all models over 150W, not only on 250W models.
 
 
 
 
 

Home Made fixtures FTW

@ Ugugu
Thx for reuploading the pictures. Now I can better understand!

Any updates on my pads? Still haven't received them, its been a few weeks now, since I ordered them. also any news about other pads, will they include proper thickness pads for rest of components, has anyone already gotten their solutions and can confirm the package contents?

For once i'd like to see a statement from EVGA admitting this as a complete engineering failure. All I see are carefully crafted responses that
shunt off as much responsibility as possible. Yeh they're sending out free pads, but they are taking forever to receive, maybe they wanna drag 
this out as long as possible and wait for a few more cards to die before we get them, w/e the case, this is totally unprofessional. 

I agree, when I finally fix my card I am selling it buying to a new rig then selling my old one to buy another 1080 from another brand.  My card works but who knows for how long?  EVGA has lost all credibility I would like a full refund but it has been too long since my purchase. >:(

Ordered my thermal mod on the ver first day they were available... still waiting for approval....
Looks like it's gonna be ebay that will supply them for me in the end....
I've done the first bios update, but i'm bot doing the 2nd one, as i do not want my card sounding like a hair dryer (that's what my friend has after the last bios update). So i'd rather stick to afterburner custom fan curve and wait till i get my pads ( off ebay ofc.... cuz evga can't be bothered sending them to me). Last 3 cards i had (680, 780 and this 1070) were all evga, but this was the last one for me.

Looks like I'm not alone still waiting on pads. For a moment I'm using my own ebay 1 dollar pads, and no issues what so ever. Been running overclocks and tests without problems, nothing has caught on fire yet.
This was my 1st evga card, coming from gigabyte and asus cards, because of the sexy metalic design, I was so tired from all the plastic all other brands use, but i dint realised there was  such bad cooler design, if they dont redesign cooler for next generation, by that i mean put a proper vram, vrms plates that are part of acx 4.0 cooler, I fear to say this is my first and last evga card.

Guys this really is a non issue as the cards run within spec, there have only been a handful of cards with major issues because of this. IMO EVGA have really stepped up to the plate offering free Advanced RMA for all cards at no cost to the customer or free thermal pads (if you want to install yourself). Like I said 99% of the cards will have no issues anyways and they have already stated this will have 0 affect on warranty so even if you mess up installing the pads, or the cards does have issues they got your back. For me because of the way they handled this I will have 0 issues buying EVGA cards in the future (this is my first one)

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Guys this really is a non issue as the cards run within spec, there have only been a handful of cards with major issues because of this. IMO EVGA have really stepped up to the plate offering free Advanced RMA for all cards at no cost to the customer or free thermal pads (if you want to install yourself). Like I said 99% of the cards will have no issues anyways and they have already stated this will have 0 affect on warranty so even if you mess up installing the pads, or the cards does have issues they got your back. For me because of the way they handled this I will have 0 issues buying EVGA cards in the future (this is my first one)

Completely disagree. This is a real issue that real people have to deal with, even if you don't. We buy these premium cards with
the expectation that they where built well right out of the gate. Take me for example, because i live in Australia, i have no option
to cross-ship or RMA for that fact. I am literally forced to install these myself with no way to get it RMA'd on the thermal pad
basis. I'm suffering down-time for my reading efforts, taking it apart, waiting for EVGA to send their fix. And i'll be down more
money because constantly seeing "Awaiting shipment" for weeks on end has caused me to try and source thermal pads elsewhere.
Non-issue my foot lol. If you think I'm going to run it risky as is on the edge of specs that can't be monitored, you would be wrong.
Spending $700 AU on a card that hasn't been used for a month because of thermal pads is a proper issue to a customer like me.
 
None of us should have to go through this process in the first place, and if you're happy about this, you must be super loyal to EVGA,