ilyama
If I understands well this is not overheating here this is the 3/4% of defective vram ?

Am I right ?

Correct. At this point no one should be purchasing any EVGA 10 series card.

pawelblyskal

ilyama
If I understands well this is not overheating here this is the 3/4% of defective vram ?

Am I right ?

Correct. At this point no one should be purchasing any EVGA 10 series card.

I disagree. My belief is that something was overlooked on the PCB for the FTW cards. The FE, SC, and other models appear to not have this issue. That's just my opinion and I have no proof, but the number of faulty SC card reports is minimal on here.

Piers123

Paragon_X
And thats why am waiting for the pads, and i dont play any games on it. It cannot be trusted as is.

as there more incidents popping around as the time goes by : https://twitch.tv/aerosimgaming/v/101518948

I've just watched that video - mine was like that but a lot brighter (and part of the backplate continued to be red in colour), as well as visible smoke in the room. The smell was also highly noxious.

Might have to do with the fact that the 1080 pulls more power? Anyhow, I hope you get a new mobo soon and be up and running asap!

Paragon_X

Piers123

Paragon_X
And thats why am waiting for the pads, and i dont play any games on it. It cannot be trusted as is.

as there more incidents popping around as the time goes by : https://twitch.tv/aerosimgaming/v/101518948

I've just watched that video - mine was like that but a lot brighter (and part of the backplate continued to be red in colour), as well as visible smoke in the room. The smell was also highly noxious.

Might have to do with the fact that the 1080 pulls more power? Anyhow, I hope you get a new mobo soon and be up and running asap!

A new motherboard has (edit):NOT been offered as it's "technically" working. The damage may just be superficial... but I'm not sure. My next plan is to test out the PCI-E slot and see what happens.

Piers123

Paragon_X

Piers123

Paragon_X
And thats why am waiting for the pads, and i dont play any games on it. It cannot be trusted as is.

as there more incidents popping around as the time goes by : https://twitch.tv/aerosimgaming/v/101518948

I've just watched that video - mine was like that but a lot brighter (and part of the backplate continued to be red in colour), as well as visible smoke in the room. The smell was also highly noxious.

Might have to do with the fact that the 1080 pulls more power? Anyhow, I hope you get a new mobo soon and be up and running asap!

A new motherboard has been offered as it's "technically" working. The damage may just be superficial... but I'm not sure. My next plan is to test out the PCI-E slot and see what happens.

I would be careful with that so you dont fry another card. Also you meant has NOT been offered?

Paragon_X

Piers123

Paragon_X

Piers123

Paragon_X
And thats why am waiting for the pads, and i dont play any games on it. It cannot be trusted as is.

as there more incidents popping around as the time goes by : https://twitch.tv/aerosimgaming/v/101518948

I've just watched that video - mine was like that but a lot brighter (and part of the backplate continued to be red in colour), as well as visible smoke in the room. The smell was also highly noxious.

Might have to do with the fact that the 1080 pulls more power? Anyhow, I hope you get a new mobo soon and be up and running asap!

A new motherboard has been offered as it's "technically" working. The damage may just be superficial... but I'm not sure. My next plan is to test out the PCI-E slot and see what happens.

I would be careful with that so you dont fry another card. Also you meant has NOT been offered?

I was asked to test a spare 970 in the same slot. I'm a little hesitant to do so.

It is VERY interesting that you had the black screen + fan at 100% speed issue already and THEN the VRM exploded.  
 
you should read this, a user quoted a EVGA support email a while ago where they say that they had a bad batch of VRMs that run out of spec and this entire black screen issue is a "Over Current Protection" mechanism:  
 http://forums.evga.com/1080-FTW-owner-Am-I-the-only-one-thinking-that-all-this-is-a-bad-joke-m2574912.aspx#2575115  
 
so far there has been no proof of a connection between the black screen issue and the exploding VRMs.  
you just delivered a very interesting puzzle piece.  
i think we now know what happens when this OCP mechanism fails... POOF.  

ZeroBANG
It is VERY interesting that you had the black screen + fan at 100% speed issue already and THEN the VRM exploded.  
 
you should read this:  
 http://forums.evga.com/1080-FTW-owner-Am-I-the-only-one-thinking-that-all-this-is-a-bad-joke-m2574912.aspx#2575115  
 
so far there has been no proof of a connection between the black screen issue and the exploding VRMs.  
you just delivered a very interesting puzzle piece.  

It only happened a couple of times in Fallout 4 - no other game that I tried. 

(i love being quoted while i'm editing ;P )  
 

Piers123
 
It only happened a couple of times in Fallout 4 - no other game that I tried. 

it just needs to happen once to know that you got one of the lucky 3 - 4% of cards from that bad batch of VRMs.  

ZeroBANG
(i love being quoted while i'm editing ;P )  
 

Piers123
 
It only happened a couple of times in Fallout 4 - no other game that I tried. 

it just needs to happen once to know that you got one of the lucky 3 - 4% of cards from that bad batch of VRMs.  

3 - 4 % thats a joke. The issue is across all units.