Hello !

I'm asking this because I feel a little bit lonely about this...

I dont want to put pads myself, I dont want to touch my computer, I just want to games and forget about all this vulgar language removed
So I use an agressive curve fan (my rig made a lot of noise even without graphic card so... ) and I have 50 degres in normal games, 55 in Battlefield 1 for example.

I'm not benchmarking, no overclocking, just games, games and games again 

Am I safe ? There is member here who wont put this  pads ?

lets's say it was a gpu chip thermal issue, would you be comfortable running it at 85c for years?
(mind you 85c is still within specs)
or would you try to reseat the cooling? it'll be a problem especially when games start pushing the card

same goes for vrms and vram, but you cant monitor them

If it's within specs... it's normal no ? Just high but normal...

Nope, most likely will not even update BIOS. I have 3 years to run the wheels off of my cards. If they take a dive in that time frame I RMA go do it again. And yes If I had any other 10xx series I'd do the same. 2x 1060 FTW's Folding at home 24/7 85-100% GPU usage @ all times. MSI AB controlled fans @ 55-60% fan speed. Open case and plenty of case fans for other items needing some sort of air flow for cooling.
 

 
Matter of fact for comparison 3x 980 Classified running the same program in a open case too (closed to get picture though)  My bad they are running in a closed case, I do not open the side on this one since this case has very good air flow. Opening the case sides actually makes the temperatures rise a couple degrees. MSI AB controlling fans Running the wheels off of them too.............but there is a warranty still in place. I will run these until they die.
 
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Quick Poor picture 980 Classies:
 

 
 
 
 

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Nope, most likely will not even update BIOS.

So you will not change anything too ?

Because we are all here on this forum but we are a very limited number of 106/7/80 owners ! 
So we can say that we are gonna have a lot more owners who will never know about this issue at all...

1070 sc here, I only updated bios, not using thermalpads. So far had no issues, I did do update of bios because It's a piece of cake and it doesn't even run that loud after applying new bios. It's not like you absolutely 100% will encounter a problem especially If you don't overclock and bring card to its limit with benchmarking tools such as fumark. If your card overheats anyway there's 3year warranty so I wouldn't worry too much. 

I won't update the bios as I run a custom fan profile anyway, but will use the thermal pads. Why someone wouldn't use them is beyond me. All you stand to gain is lower temps. No harm done in anyway as you are covered by EVGA. People are blowing this out of proportion lol. To each their own though. By the time your warranty is up you'll buy a new card anyway 

The problem is that GPU temperature is not VRM or other sensitive component temperature.
My temperatures were also fine and I updated the bios yesterday.
I ordered thermal pads but EVGA saying that it is not essential upgrade so for now I don't know if i should install them.
 

I run an aggressive fan curve, so I cant be bothered installing the new vBIOS. I also wont apply thermals pads, if this card dies within 3 years, I will just talk to my retailer and/or EVGA and will get a working one. I just highly doubt every EVGA card is going out in flames. 

Glad to see I'm not the only one... 
Because everything works so fine at the moment, dont want to change or touch anything !
 
And yes I doubt too that every card will going out in flames, we are aware about those who have issues, they are less than 10 but there are several thousand of users who will never know whats happen right now and just enjoy the product...

And also the 95 degres it's a furmark temperature and I have a more agressive fan !

So, I can suppose I'm under 90 degres for my VRM and the limit is 125 degres I'm right ?