Yup, fail rate of the inductors or MOSFETs in the power section is peaking.

Dr.Death
2 + years of service 

Its ridiculous that a card that cost $670 back in 2015 is dying 3 years later but my XFX 7950 that cost me $250 back in 2013 is still running after 5 years non-stop. (was mine, then my friends then i got it back from him and it is now in my system while i wait for my rma card. How is there an excuse for that? The fact some friends are telling me "maybe its time to upgrade". If i payed $600+ for a card i am expecting it to last at least as long as my $250 card.

bill1024 
Good luck with yor new RMA card.

Thank you!
My original card actually ran out of warranty recently so this is why they must've said 30 days only when I talked to them over the phone.

I wouldnt say that.
Returning someones used messed up card back to someone else is a 'good' warranty?
I would rather get a good card, with good componenets, with good cooling, that WONT junk out on you after 6 months, instead of dealing with multiple rma's until you get one that is just 'ok' enough to play games (and even then you have to mod it to heck and back just to run cool enough to play said games), sometimes.
I would rather get a good quality product instead of a turd that heats up your card until it burns, and then get told its 'your fault not ours' when everyone can see its the quality of the components and the bad bios' with more emphisis on quiet than cooling. And, cards that have to have extra cooling sent to the users to install so their cards DONT catch fire.
But, hey, thats just me. I read reviews now, and dont just blindly trust any card mfr nowadays. If every review says it runs much hotter, and has lower performance, and clocks poorly (not that I clock anything, but if it clocks well it should last much longer in just normal mode), I am going to get the card that runs much cooler, has better performance, and oc's better. I may pay $10-$20 more for it, but at least I know it wont go out after 6 months.
But, again, thats just me.
:)

Well truth be, whether it truly is EVGA using cheaper components, or just a fact there is more end PC users which means more cards to have fail, or a combo of both, regardless the fact is , EVGA used to stand tall above the crowd because of their lifetime warranty(and BFG as mentioned), but anymore, most other Manufacturers also provide a 3-year warranty, making EVGA not nearly as unique of a company. MSI, ASUS, PNY, all have been producing graphics cards a very long time(longer in some cases), and all produce just as good of product as EVGA, it's only when you have to deal with customer service, you may be thankful for EVGA, as speaking from experience, PNY while they will get the job done, are just not fun to deal with, especially if you are picky about talking to someone who speaks clear English on the phone. ASUS I've never had issues, they have always provided me with good experiences, and same with MSI. I guess all I am trying to get at is, EVGA is not the only good GPU manufacturer, perhaps if more people were to take their business elsewhere  they would be forced to up their game. Sadly however I never see Lifetime Warranties returning due to currency mining.

LOL.
I also dont game on win10 (I do have a system win10, just 'in case' on an old machine, but I never use it since it is so old and its win10).
I game on Win8.1, with MS cookie crud set to off permanently. I am thinking of going back to Win7, just to see if my titan x will work any better, but dont have the oomf to actually do it.
But, I used to upgrade every cycle.
I used to upgrade multiple systems per cycle.
I was in the AntiVirus bussiness for 14 years, so I bought a LOT of systems to test on, from amd to intel, amd to nvidia, and all kinds of periferals.
 
@Joey
Yeah, you can see from my rig specs that I used to have a lot of love for evga (oh yeah, my titan x is evga).
But, that was before I had an issue with any of their stuff.
I have 1 issue, 6 video cards later I still have most of the issues, and its all my fault according to evga.
It only takes 1 issue to lose a lifelong customer (heck I dont even register half the stuff I have of evga's, since they used to be so good, like mobo's, psu's, video cards).
But, that 1 issue, with a top of the line card, them jerkin me around and saying its my system, and sending me other peoples trash cards, and telling me they have no new cards to send me so all I will get is other peoples trash cards that got sent in because they were bad, well, yeah.
All it takes is 1.
 
And, I WILL vote with my wallet once the nvidia 1100 series comes out.

Well, with win7 AND win 8/8.1, you can turn off their ad-ware services with win tweaks.
You can also install JUST win7 sp1, and if you have the service packs before they went to the all-in-one-download, you can turn off auto-install and just pick and choose what updates you want to manually install. I used to have every sp for every os, until 2015, since I QA tested software on all the oses and the oses themselves. I wish I would have kept all that when I got laid off, would come in handy now. :(

Yeah, well, you arent the only one.
I still have floppies and cd's and dvd's, and 98se.
But, most of us arent as paranoid as you are, and we like to play CURRENT games as well as older games, and you cant do that without steam, or origins, or whatever.
Do you have a cell phone? If so, they got your shizz too, so whats the difference where they get it from? The phone company saw you coming a mile away....LOL