Well, I was excited yesterday about receiving my video card from EVGA. Card worked great for 24 hours before catching on fire literally today. The card was not overclocked, modified in anyway, no custom bios or fan speeds messed with. Just installed the drivers and the LED software. Card temps never went above 50c and was never really pushed, this is the first video card I have ever had catch on fire. Thank God I was able to yank the power cord fast enough before I lost any other parts. I just submitted an RMA so I guess it's a wait and see what EVGA says, the whole backside of the video card is burned up with multiple components burnt to a crisp.  
 
I will say the card worked great out of the box until the incident, I guess it's back to my old AMD Vega 64 for another 2 or 3 months.  

These were the best I can do I don't want to take the heatsink off to show the damage to take a chance in voiding my warranty.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vZJdxS6tfn9vMLiYaT5ixJvl6IzpFa2o/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sd8p0teKi2ziTuwu94yJDqjf0OyvGpvP/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dp-l_vQMwMsKUvf3wOlaUz0SQj9CmVoj/view?usp=sharing
 
 

Very true, back when I first started in IT we would have to burn in the computers for a few days to see if anything went poof. My personal computers never had anything like this happen, back in the late 80's we had a few Gateway computers power supplies go out after a few days. 

aka_STEVE_b
Ouch , good luck on the RMA ... 
hopefully it didn't kill anything else.

So far so good my system has been up for about an hour with the old video card not having any problems yet. I will unplug the computer before going to bed just in case!  Thx for the well wishes.  ugh...never had to RMA something before at least not a personal computer item, work stuff all the time.  

It looks like the MOSFET adjacent to the metal inductor has burnt. It is quite common.
 

Kevin115

According to Techpowerup, EVGA 3070 has 12-phase power for GPU core and 2 phase for memory. It looks like a solid design. I guess you just got bad luck.

I have horrible luck, now I am paranoid some kind of loop hole or some out is going to come back and say it's not covered under the normal warranty.  

 

I have horrible luck, now I am paranoid some kind of loop hole or some out is going to come back and say it's not covered under the normal warranty.  

Don't worry too much, I think they'll take good care of you

eVGA's RMA process is quick & clean, you shouldn't have any issues.
 
Out of curiosity, you weren't using a riser cable of any kind for vertical mounting were you?  If so, what kind/brand?  Also what PSU & how old is it?

Dabadger84
eVGA's RMA process is quick & clean, you shouldn't have any issues.
 
Out of curiosity, you weren't using a riser cable of any kind for vertical mounting were you?  If so, what kind/brand?  Also what PSU & how old is it?

No, just had it mounted directly into the MB without a vertical mount or riser cable, I thought about it but standard mounting you can see the LED's better.  

rjohnson11
Please contact EVGA tech support for any assistance you might need.

Thank you, I have I submitted an RMA request most likely will not hear back until Monday since this happened late yesterday afternoon. 

These exaggerated titles always leave me disappointed in the content.

ty_ger07
These exaggerated titles always leave me disappointed in the content.

The card did catch on fire there were flames coming from the card, the title is fitting and was not exaggerated. I can't take the card apart to show the damage due to the warranty.  

RakwaXD

Kevin115

ty_ger07
These exaggerated titles always leave me disappointed in the content.

Yeah. I was expecting a card that is covered by black soot everywhere.

Sorry to disappoint your entertainment value, I was just posting to let people know what happened.  

Sorry. No offense. I'm just kidding. Please don't take it seriously.

Kevin115

RakwaXD

Kevin115

ty_ger07
These exaggerated titles always leave me disappointed in the content.

Yeah. I was expecting a card that is covered by black soot everywhere.

Sorry to disappoint your entertainment value, I was just posting to let people know what happened.  

Sorry. No offense. I'm just kidding. Please don't take it seriously.

Sorry, I am just a little pissed waiting since September to get a card without paying the scalpers to last a day has me a bit upset to say the least.  

EVGA is sending me a new card, should be arriving Wednesday hopefully this card works a lot better than the last one. They took one business day to check out the old card, there was no status given with the old card just got an email a new one was on the way.