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

Am I right ?

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

Am I right ?

I really hope so bec if this is the overheating issue then my card isnt gonna hold long bec i play a lot of ARK so it goes up to 71°C under load and stays around 65-70 degrees for like 4 hours straight... and i am still waiting for pads...

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.  

(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.  

Piers123

sahafiec
clear case to prove how good Evga's support really is. thumbs down for EVGA's US reply, that's a no go imo.

Yes, that left my fuming. I'm already off work due to high stress and I could do without this right now. 
 
I also can't get rid of the burnt plastic and electronics smell from my apartment. I've moved the tower into another room, opened windows and doors, and I can still smell it.

Speaking from experience, part of the reason you smell it still is because your mind is tricking you into smelling it.   a few months ago from a crappy 4pin to SATA cable (from some cheap company, so I had no hope of getting compensated), and I've been smelling burning off and on to this day whenever I think about it.

Something like this happening is pretty mentally taxing and mildly traumatizing, so I can only hope EVGA will make things right with you, EVGA is a company that lives on brand loyalty, so it would be bad on them for stories like this to shake that loyalty.

Vizkos

Piers123

sahafiec
clear case to prove how good Evga's support really is. thumbs down for EVGA's US reply, that's a no go imo.

Yes, that left my fuming. I'm already off work due to high stress and I could do without this right now. 
 
I also can't get rid of the burnt plastic and electronics smell from my apartment. I've moved the tower into another room, opened windows and doors, and I can still smell it.

Speaking from experience, part of the reason you smell it still is because your mind is tricking you into smelling it.   a few months ago from a crappy 4pin to SATA cable (from some cheap company, so I had no hope of getting compensated), and I've been smelling burning off and on to this day whenever I think about it.

Something like this happening is pretty mentally taxing and mildly traumatizing, so I can only hope EVGA will make things right with you, EVGA is a company that lives on brand loyalty, so it would be bad on them for stories like this to shake that loyalty.

What do you mean my "mind is tricking" me? I started to cough and could see a light smoke/fog in the air in the room. I also saw smoke from the burning metal or other part coming from the PC...

Piers123

What do you mean my "mind is tricking" me? I started to cough and could see a light smoke/fog in the air in the room. I also saw smoke from the burning metal or other part coming from the PC...

 
He's talking about your still smelling it...not during the event or immediate aftermath

Luta Wicasa

Piers123

What do you mean my "mind is tricking" me? I started to cough and could see a light smoke/fog in the air in the room. I also saw smoke from the burning metal or other part coming from the PC...

 
He's talking about your still smelling it...not during the event or immediate aftermath

 
This.  A link with text I had in my post appears to have been clipped out, losing some of the context of my post.  My PC caught fire a few months ago and I have been smelling burning off and on because I am still twitchy about the whole event.  

Dude, that is just messed up! In regards to the odor you can't get rid of, try Ozium. It works on everything that I'm aware of, though I haven't had to use it in your particular situation, I think that at the very least it will reduce it to a tolerable level. Hope it helps & my sympathies.

 I'm very satisfied with my GTX 970 ftw+ but i just remember that the maxwell génération has known 3 different cooling systems (ACX, ACX 2.0 and ACX 2.0+) in  only 2 years of production, the first 970 (ACX) had a little misconception having some of its heatpipes not fully contacting the GPU, this issue didn't cause any damage as far as i know and was solved quickly but it makes me feel a little dubious with the cooling solutions EVGA has been carrying with the last GPU générations