Still awaiting on shipment, and me being in Canada it'll probably take weeks to get to me, but this whole situation has left a sour taste in my mouth. First time I ever spent over $200 CDN on a GPU - last one I bought was in 2009 - and now my choices are:
-Leave it alone and it'll probably die, resulting in me being out $600 CDN.
-Apply the pads myself, and hopefully not screw up
-RMA for a refurb, even tho the thing isn't even 3 months old. Which I find unacceptable.
I don't even have a credit card right now, nor do I want a refurb after spending $600 CDN on this thing, so a RMA is out of the question. I won't claim this is my last EVGA, I'm not one of those people, but this wasn't what I expected when I went "high end" for once.
(1070 SC buyer)