As the title, have a replacement card on the way with the bios & thermal pad fix, just wanted to ensure the thermal pads for the Vram are now officially brought to the attention of EVGA and being remedied with thicker ones too?

I did RMA on website on Nov 1, and got my card last night.  I did not disassemble the card and take off plate over the vram, but I did look closely in between with a flashlight and it appeared all the the VRAM was touching the pads.
 
About the Vbios, personally on my old card I needed a custom fan curve to raise speed to balance temps vs noise.  On new Vbios I'm using a curve to lower the fan speeds due to noise.  Despite lowering the speeds I think my temps are still lower, but I'm not certain due to air temp differences.
 
As a bonus, I got lucky and my card was brand new sealed in box.  It seems to either overclock the same or slightly better, I'm not sure yet.

Could a mod/EVGA comment? I'm not sure whether the VRAM thermal pads have been revised in thickness officially, I really don't want to have to crack open my second card!
 
be nice to actually get a brand new one seeing as we bought brand new!
 
As per the other thread I started regarding core temps and power target % it seems many are running very aggressive curves - 70% fan speed at 60°C for example. Maybe we need to come around to the idea that the card is going to be very loud on load to ensure it doesn't burn up.
 
I for one have core temp of approx. 82°C with 90% power target playing 'Victor Vran' in a bitfenix prodigy with a 230mm fan at the front, 120mm rear, 2x 120mm on top on a H100i
 
 

60% of fan, 55 degres with BF1, dont need pads 

Considering no one's actually got ram pads yet, pretty doubtful.

ilyama
60% of fan, 55 degres with BF1, dont need pads 

You cant read the temps of the VRAM or VRMs. Your GPU temps are irrelevant.

I know but lower the temps of the gpu are, lower the VRM will be, I think it's logic...
the 106 degres tomshardware test was with a 75 degres gpu if I remember well, I know I can make conclusion with that but I'm sure I can have 50 degres between gpu and vrm...

ilyama
I know but lower the temps of the gpu are, lower the VRM will be, I think it's logic...
the 106 degres tomshardware test was with a 75 degres gpu if I remember well, I know I can make conclusion with that but I'm sure I can have 50 degres between gpu and vrm...

Lol, thats not how it works lol

So explain me ;) With the vbios it makes 95 degres instead of 107 degres... I have a more agressive fan curve than the vbios... so I must have something like 90 degres for my vrm. And I'm talking here about furmark !!! 

I dont benchmark, dont overclock, dont use other applications than games... 

Explain me where I'm wrong here, surious question ;)

For me here the situation is a problem for those who
 
-overclock
-have a bad airflow
-want a very quiet computer
-both or more in the same time...

I dont care about silence, my computer is not silent at all, so I have a good airflow for my CPU
I dont overclock and I'm always in a cool room.

BUT the situation is bad, I agree on that,  I just think that for my utilisation, it will not be a problem at all !
 
 
 

Caanon
As a bonus, I got lucky and my card was brand new sealed in box.  It seems to either overclock the same or slightly better, I'm not sure yet.

Awesome! The retail packaging and the whole shebang? If so, what exactly would you be sending back? Would it be your old card + box papers or just the old card?