I think you should get ahold of customer service. when you spend that kind of money you should be getting a premium item

I agreem jusr RMA it, unless you really feel like opening it up and mess around with the connectors 

Remove the card and check that the GPU fan connector shown here is fully seated and latched in..No need to take it apart..It's not unheard of for the connector to be loose.
 
If it's fully seated and latched in and the fan still don't work, RMA it.
 
Just for kicks you could turn off your PC, switch (located near the PCIe power connectors) to the other VBIOS, start up and see if it works.

Bad fan.. doubt a bad fan barring.. but you can try to place the card flat on a piece of cardboard and press down on the fan and release like 5-6 times to see if the barings re inline.

If that dont do it and it's not a loose connection rma it. But if you like the card as it did get nice over locks you can ask if you can just swap the cooler from the one they send you.

Btw. The left most fan your having an issue with is for the GPU. The middle is for mem and the right one is for power.

So when you set the fan curves there 3 separate curves for the 3 fans. Make sure on precision x oc to press the fan icons to enable your fan curve. They will turn blue when in auto mode. If there grey it will be static mode.. so whatever you select on the dial is where it will stick to.

Oh and also you can sync all fan to the one item.. so sync all to gpu,mem or power temp. GPU temp would be best if you sync them.

GreenCoLo
Thanks for your help AHowes. I pressed the fan a couple of times but it didn't fix it.
I managed to swap the most left with the most right fan, and it's clear it's just the fan that's bad. It's a power logic pla09215b12h.
It's not really difficult to change the fan, just the three screws that hold it in place at the base of the fan and off course the connector. It helps if you unscrew the three screws that hold the fan shroud in place (but not need to take of the shroud).
 
I asked customer support if the could just send me a replacement fan. Apparently this is not possible. If i could find one on eBay I would buy it for $10,- and leave the hassle of the upfront paying for the replacement card etc etc

There is a set of 3 fans on aliexpress in case you want to try out (for 1080Ti FTW3).
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3Pcs-set-GTX1080Ti-GPU-VGA-Cooler-Graphics-Card-Fan-For-EVGA-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-FTW3/32833109147.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.2.5ac83c5644ELiX&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10152_10065_10151_10344_10068_5722815_10342_10325_10343_10546_10340_5722915_10548_10341_10698_5722615_10697_10696_10084_10083_10618_10307_5722715_5711215_10059_308_100031_10103_441_10624_10623_10622_5711315_5722515_10621_10620,searchweb201603_68,ppcSwitch_5&algo_expid=237cd152-bbce-40b4-a208-cc68dbf16357-0&algo_pvid=237cd152-bbce-40b4-a208-cc68dbf16357&priceBeautifyAB=0

AHowes
? If the fan is bad why aren't they sending you a replacement cooler or card to swap the cooler under the warranty??

EVGA wants customers to RMA the entire card for a bad fan. EVGA won't sent just a fan or just a cooler. The customer apparently doesn't want to RMA the entire card. RMAing the card costs extra money, down-time, and you never know the quality and behavior of the RMA replacement card. I don't blame the customer for just wanting to replace the fan themself.

PietroBR

GreenCoLo
Thanks for your help AHowes. I pressed the fan a couple of times but it didn't fix it.
I managed to swap the most left with the most right fan, and it's clear it's just the fan that's bad. It's a power logic pla09215b12h.
It's not really difficult to change the fan, just the three screws that hold it in place at the base of the fan and off course the connector. It helps if you unscrew the three screws that hold the fan shroud in place (but not need to take of the shroud).
 
I asked customer support if the could just send me a replacement fan. Apparently this is not possible. If i could find one on eBay I would buy it for $10,- and leave the hassle of the upfront paying for the replacement card etc etc

There is a set of 3 fans on aliexpress in case you want to try out (for 1080Ti FTW3).

Will these fans also work on the 1080 Ti SC2?

So in the end I send back the card as an RMA. Customer support confirmed they would ship back the very same card since it's only a bad fan.
 
And off course I now received a card with a different serial number and looking at it they haven't been very careful with this thing.
 
Exactly what I didn't want from the start.
Do not buy EVGA because you think they give you good support, that was my very first mistake.
 

GreenCoLo
So in the end I send back the card as an RMA. Customer support confirmed they would ship back the very same card since it's only a bad fan.
 
And off course I now received a card with a different serial number and looking at it they haven't been very careful with this thing.
 
Exactly what I didn't want from the start.
Do not buy EVGA because you think they give you good support, that was my very first mistake.
 

If you wanted to keep your original card you should have done a cross ship rma and just swapped the coolers.

GreenCoLo
So in the end I send back the card as an RMA. Customer support confirmed they would ship back the very same card since it's only a bad fan.
 
And off course I now received a card with a different serial number and looking at it they haven't been very careful with this thing.
 
Exactly what I didn't want from the start.
Do not buy EVGA because you think they give you good support, that was my very first mistake.
 

Hello GreenCoLo,
 
I am sorry to hear that you were given some misinformation. In general, we would ship a replacement product for any RMA and I do apologize that you were told that you'd get back the same product. As for any other concerns, I will be sending you a direct email to follow up with you on this.