pranut
30% performance improvement for 36$ and you dont want it ? 
 
You can get the hybrid kit if you are that worried about the temps. Most reviews mention that throttling isn't that much at max temp and is still faster than 1080.

No kidding...  my step up cost is $140 and for that kind of performance increase I'm all over it.  Would be a pretty dumb decision not to upgrade IMO.

Finally got my 1080 out and took the block off and put one of my two 780 Ti's back in to hold me over. I don't plan on playing PC anyway since I have the new Zelda game on the WiiU so I'll just play it till my card arrives. I just have to put the air cooler back on and ship it out in the morning.
Only bad thing is the water block on my Asus 780 Ti has a stripped bolt hole that goes to the part you put the fittings in so I just put a slightly bigger diameter bolt in it and it is working but it will rule out resale of that card since I don't have the original air cooler for it. I'll probably just keep it for a spare and sell the other MSI 780 Ti since I have the air cooler for it. Time to go put the stock cooler on then off to bed to get up early enough to get it sent out by morning.

Does the hybrid kit fit the ti?

It might be worth it to get the ti and hybrid kit, that way I'll have super low temps and a better card.

Anyone in EU got past stage 1 yet? 

strato79
Couple quick questions. First, does most of the 1080's come with a display port cable, or more specifically, did the FTW Gaming come with one? Second, if so and I forgot to put it back in with the card, would they reject my step up due to that?

I was so wrapped up in finding every last piece that came with my card that I completely forgot about the display port cable. I know it says you don't have to include any of the DVD's, poster's, etc but I put everything back in including the folder full of papers, a DVD, case badge, and even all the rubber protectors for the pcie, SLI, HDMI and display ports as well as the unopened 6/8 pin pcie power connector adapters. The display port cable completely slipped my mind. Would really suck to get rejected over a cable. Anyone know?

Just send the card back. They do not need the accessories

And no gpu comes with the cables. They do have a dvi to vga adapter, but not an actual cable.

They qould reject your card if:

1.) You dropped it and damaged it.
2.) You didnt pack it properly
3.) You dont have an RMA number
4.) It wasnt an evga card you sent back... which would be weird.

Also, read the email for shipping the card back.. it very directly says to keep all accessories. You just need to send the card back, with 2" of padding and a hard outer box. Do not send it in a padded envelope.

Scarlet-Tech

strato79
Couple quick questions. First, does most of the 1080's come with a display port cable, or more specifically, did the FTW Gaming come with one? Second, if so and I forgot to put it back in with the card, would they reject my step up due to that?

I was so wrapped up in finding every last piece that came with my card that I completely forgot about the display port cable. I know it says you don't have to include any of the DVD's, poster's, etc but I put everything back in including the folder full of papers, a DVD, case badge, and even all the rubber protectors for the pcie, SLI, HDMI and display ports as well as the unopened 6/8 pin pcie power connector adapters. The display port cable completely slipped my mind. Would really suck to get rejected over a cable. Anyone know?

Just send the card back. They do not need the accessories

And no gpu comes with the cables. They do have a dvi to vga adapter, but not an actual cable.

They qould reject your card if:

1.) You dropped it and damaged it.
2.) You didnt pack it properly
3.) You dont have an RMA number
4.) It wasnt an evga card you sent back... which would be weird.

Also, read the email for shipping the card back.. it very directly says to keep all accessories. You just need to send the card back, with 2" of padding and a hard outer box. Do not send it in a padded envelope.

Thanks. I read everything about not having to send back accessories or anything but I didn't need them and I wanted to make sure they had no reason to reject it. I put the card back in the original plastic holder it came in and that inside the original box that came in and finally in the original Amazon box with all the old shipping labels removed. Put thick Styrofoam on all sides of the original GPU box but one and on the top as well. It's very well secured but doesn't have anything on the bottom for padding is all. The original plastic container the GPU came in is enough to secure it on its own but I went over the top on everything but the bottom. I don't think they'll have any problem with that. Thanks again for the reassurance about the accessories though. It's due to arrive at EVGA Wednesday so I'm hoping to get my new one by the next Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

karmadecoy
Woot tracking shows that EVGA just received my GPUs

Me too. I can't believe they got it today, I mailed it Saturday from Nebraska, just regular old mail. Hopefully they mail our new cards out tomorrow!!! I'm borrowing a card from BB(I'll return it when I get the ti), I can't wait to play the new Battlefield dlc that comes out tomorrow.

Successfully submitted step 1 = 03/10/2017 @ 10:24am
Upload Invoice Step 2 = 03/10/2017 @11:19am (Was already completed)
Submit Payment Step 3 = 03/10/2017 @4:11pm
Ship original GPU to EVGA Step 4 = 03/11/2017 @ 3:30pm
Confirmed arrived at EVGA = 3/15/2017
Stepped up GPU shipped to end user Step 5 = 3/16/2017 ETA 3/21/2017

Successfully submitted step 1 = 03/11/2017 
Upload Invoice Step 2 = 03/11/2017
Submit Payment Step 3 =
Ship original GPU to EVGA Step 4 =
Stepped up GPU shipped to end user Step 5 =
 
For both of my cards :) .... 

nebraska red

karmadecoy
Woot tracking shows that EVGA just received my GPUs

Me too. I can't believe they got it today, I mailed it Saturday from Nebraska, just regular old mail. Hopefully they mail our new cards out tomorrow!!! I'm borrowing a card from BB(I'll return it when I get the ti), I can't wait to play the new Battlefield dlc that comes out tomorrow.

Did it update on the EVGA page or only the carrier tracking ?
 
My USPS tracking says left in the mailbox ?

Scarlet-Tech

headbanging247
Do I need to upload an invoice if the card I'm stepping up from was an RMA or do I upload the original invoice that had the video card on there prior to the RMA?

Upload your original receipt. If it was just a regilar rma, you wont have a different invoice.

If you are talking about using the icx upgrade, the upgrade is your receipt.

I'm looking at my products right now and it shows the step-up information, id, queue, shipping method chosen, etc. At the bottom it says invoice uploaded, so I assume I'm fine then?

pranut

nebraska red

karmadecoy
Woot tracking shows that EVGA just received my GPUs

Me too. I can't believe they got it today, I mailed it Saturday from Nebraska, just regular old mail. Hopefully they mail our new cards out tomorrow!!! I'm borrowing a card from BB(I'll return it when I get the ti), I can't wait to play the new Battlefield dlc that comes out tomorrow.

Did it update on the EVGA page or only the carrier tracking ?
 
My USPS tracking says left in the mailbox ?

Hmmm that is interesting my tracking says
 
Delivered, To Mail Room

headbanging247
I had a 1080 FTW ACX, RMA'ed it, and now stepped up from the RMA'ed card. Under the my products page, if I select my card that I'm stepping up from, it shows all the step up information and at the bottom it says invoice uploaded.

If you originally uploaded your receipt when younreceived your first card, then the receipt transferred to the new card already. So you are good.

An4x15

TheFra
Anyone in EU got past stage 1 yet? 

I started my step up 2017.03.10. 19:58 (First few minutes after the card was available for step up) , my queue status is pending . So i guess and hope they busy and nothing went wrong with my process.
 
Any more EU buyer to confirm nothing wrong?

Got both my cards in at 20:04 and 20:06, and only received one confirmation (step 1/4) by mail. I uploaded both invoices previously.
 

Got my confirmation email at 19:01 UK time and still at phase 1. Doesn't look like anyone's getting through yet