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That's good to hear :) Was a little worried about my pending RMA and supply issues for my 1070 FTW.
Indeed. coming up to a week since I had the RMA approved, it all went quiet hence I dropped support a mail. Thought it a bit odd EVGA would be sat there with no parts to put graphics cards together!
ilyama
In fact both of you think that this is not a real issue this overheating but you both ask RMA too ?
I've replied to some of the threads you've posted in, and the one you started. I think it is an issue, as we saw from FLIR testing in Battlefield 1 (popular pc game, not power virus), leaving the card as it ships from the factory - standard bios and fan curves results in the VRM being around 14°C hotter than the core reading (72°C). For someone like myself, who has a gsync 144hz monitor, you don't use vsync, and so my core temp was 82°C. From that, you could theorise, based on the FLIR results that I've been gaming for the last month or so with VRAM at ~96°C. Maybe my VRAM isn't even touching the thermal pads, so could explain previous artifacts, though I haven't seen them after the bios flash, whether that's the micron fix or higher fan profile, don't know.
so yeah, hoping to get a brand new card with all the mods and be free of worry, time will tell!