Aristoc69
I predict there will be a huge price drop on all these problematic cards in the next few weeks. More so than just the normal price drops. these cards are going to have to go if people start holding off or backing out.
 

Myself I really do not think this well happen.
The Price of EVGA Cards are going to stay steady until the new release comes around next year.
But I am hoping that we see a Christmas Sale or Holiday Sale come December.

I won't be.  I replaced my 2 EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Superclocked ACX 2.0's (04G-P4-2983-KR, bought late 2014) in my X99 system (on which I stopped most gaming about a year ago so I have been wasting QUITE a bit of $$ since these 2 980's are now beside my 2 480 GTX's gathering dust ) with an EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 (08G-P4-6286-KR) ordered on 08/23, shipped 08/31, received about a week later.  After reading about the BS/heating/whatever issues AFTER pulling the plug on the order I was worried BUT for the first time in my long life (57 years old ) I must have won the silicon crap-shoot as I tested my card with hours and hours of different benchmarking programs (and the Doom demo LOL) with eVga Precision K-boost on with 2025 Mhz clock and watching usage/mem/temps/fan on my Logitech LCD color keyboard display the card just crushed the benchmarks and occasionally I would hear the fans speed up (at 70C using default fan profile).  That's where it would idle when taxed the most and then would just cool down and quiet right down.
 
I just don't want to mess up a good thing.  I just need to get something like No Mans Sky (  ) and really game.  I used to play tribes/tribes2/BF1942/planetside on different teams/clans but cannot get interested again so my card is currently used for me to check email, news, these forums, etc... on my Windows 10 x64 fast-ring preview (yes-I like Win7 eye candy MUCH better but what the heck!) system.  I'm "a-scared" to change anything.

imweasel
I won't be.  I replaced my 2 EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Superclocked ACX 2.0's (04G-P4-2983-KR, bought late 2014) in my X99 system (on which I stopped most gaming about a year ago so I have been wasting QUITE a bit of $$ since these 2 980's are now beside my 2 480 GTX's gathering dust ) with an EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0 (08G-P4-6286-KR) ordered on 08/23, shipped 08/31, received about a week later.  After reading about the BS/heating/whatever issues AFTER pulling the plug on the order I was worried BUT for the first time in my long life (57 years old ) I must have won the silicon crap-shoot as I tested my card with hours and hours of different benchmarking programs (and the Doom demo LOL) with eVga Precision K-boost on with 2025 Mhz clock and watching usage/mem/temps/fan on my Logitech LCD color keyboard display the card just crushed the benchmarks and occasionally I would hear the fans speed up (at 70C using default fan profile).  That's where it would idle when taxed the most and then would just cool down and quiet right down.
 
I just don't want to mess up a good thing.  I just need to get something like No Mans Sky (  ) and really game.  I used to play tribes/tribes2/BF1942/planetside on different teams/clans but cannot get interested again so my card is currently used for me to check email, news, these forums, etc... on my Windows 10 x64 fast-ring preview (yes-I like Win7 eye candy MUCH better but what the heck!) system.  I'm "a-scared" to change anything.

Awwww man don't come in here and common sense the place!!!! Your going to ruin my ability to have an affect on the market prices...........and I won't be powerful anymore!!!!

howdy2u2
Awwww man don't come in here and common sense the place!!!! Your going to ruin my ability to have an affect on the market prices...........and I won't be powerful anymore!!!!

You just wait for me to "flood the market" with my 2 980 GTX's, 2 480 GTX's, not to mention my 2 285 GTX's and I up my own affect (that sounds horrible!) on the market place!  ha-HA!

imweasel

howdy2u2
Awwww man don't come in here and common sense the place!!!! Your going to ruin my ability to have an affect on the market prices...........and I won't be powerful anymore!!!!

You just wait for me to "flood the market" with my 2 980 GTX's, 2 480 GTX's, not to mention my 2 285 GTX's and I up my own affect (that sounds horrible!) on the market place!  ha-HA!

Yup now you have really done it!!!!! I have 2 1060s folding, 3 GTX 980 Classies <current main rig, 3 970s< folding rig, 2 480s<retired, and BFG 275s<retired long long long ago along with a whole bunch of others might be some 280s in there too (460s, 560s) sitting collecting dust. Now I am searching for "Anger Management" classes!!! Alllllllllll because you took my market power!!!!!

Im on my third card, 1070sc. Previous 2 were not overclocked and died and had to be RMA'd.
 
There is no reason not to apply the pads. You're only asking to try and validate what you want to hear, which is not doing anything. You've already made your mind up. Thats fine, but in the long run you might end up annoyed that you didnt spend 5mins putting thermal pads on when you have to RMA the card.
 
The people who are posting stuff about how their GPU temp is whatever is not relevant to the temps that the VRM is getting, which isnt monitored in any program.
 
So yeah, put your fingers in your ears and go ahead and do nothing about it. "Everything is within spec" etc etc. Thats what you wanted to hear right?
 
You should take a look at this video which explains the situation: youtube.com/watch?v=QCuEUqHj_cU
 

howdy2u2
Yup now you have really done it!!!!! I have 2 1060s folding, 3 GTX 980 Classies <current main rig, 3 970s< folding rig, 2 480s<retired, and BFG 275s<retired long long long ago along with a whole bunch of others might be some 280s in there too (460s, 560s) sitting collecting dust. Now I am searching for "Anger Management" classes!!! Alllllllllll because you took my market power!!!!!

That sir/madam is because I know the "power of 2" as you can see by my previous ignorant buying record.  After all one of my first real builds as a Pentium 4 dual CPU (133 screaming MHz) server motherboard with the newly released MS NT4 I loaded and then hosed when I installed NT4 SP2 on it!  I also would like to mention that I use the power of 2 in my personal life as I have 2 ex-wives too (3 times a charm, right???).  I will now stop my thread-hijacking in here by no longer posting in this thread and hopefully prevent angry people here from PM'ing me or posting about me and shaming me into a corner that have real issues.  My power of 2 last words: Peace out!

OctavianH
I will update the bios.
 
Question: Fan curves on new BIOS are different than the Aggressive one on the previous ones?

Same question.
 
Reviews by users say that this update has increased the speed fan at 300 RPM. Anyone confirm this?

imweasel

howdy2u2
Yup now you have really done it!!!!! I have 2 1060s folding, 3 GTX 980 Classies <current main rig, 3 970s< folding rig, 2 480s<retired, and BFG 275s<retired long long long ago along with a whole bunch of others might be some 280s in there too (460s, 560s) sitting collecting dust. Now I am searching for "Anger Management" classes!!! Alllllllllll because you took my market power!!!!!

That sir/madam is because I know the "power of 2" as you can see by my previous ignorant buying record.  After all one of my first real builds as a Pentium 4 dual CPU (133 screaming MHz) server motherboard with the newly released MS NT4 I loaded and then hosed when I installed NT4 SP56 on it!  I also would like to mention that I use the power of 2 in my personal life as I have 2 ex-wives too (3 times a charm, right???).  I will now stop my thread-hijacking in here by no longer posting in this thread and hopefully prevent angry people here from PM'ing me or posting about me and shaming me into a corner that have real issues.  My power of 2 last words: Peace out!

Yes, back to the topic on hand  LOL

If I understand well; we are not of lot people who wont put the pads...
 
First time EVGA i'm a little bit disappointed :(