haha! nice video Paintballer!, congrats on the board man!  Oh, and Donta thanks alot for all this info man!

5thduke

does anyone know if ek full mb cooling blocks for the e760 will fit the new classy 3.damn harder for us with water cooling to fix this if it becomes a problem now i cant leave my pc running when im not home

I'm hoping to have the 770 here by this weekend or early next week.  As soon as I can I will see if the EK block fits on it or not and let you guys know.  I sure hope it does.
 
I'll say it again, and keep saying it...we need official word from EVGA on what is going to be done about this.  I have a 760 board that I can step-up to the 762, but I've been number 1 in the queue for several days now and still no word on that one either.  I have another 760 and the 759 that are not available for step-up, but I want EVGA to fix this.

So I'm about to pull the trigger on the MSI XPower mobo. Looks like a great board, it has military grade components, 2 8 pin for CPU and a 6 pin for the pci lanes. But with all that said the problem I still have is that they only offer a 3 year warranty and tech support is only 6-6 pst. That sucks since I live in Chicago and most of my gaming and benching happens after they close. I don't know what to do! I guess I'll be in a holding pattern till (insert company name here) gives is a fix.

Emach

5thduke

does anyone know if ek full mb cooling blocks for the e760 will fit the new classy 3.damn harder for us with water cooling to fix this if it becomes a problem now i cant leave my pc running when im not home

YerBuddy

5thduke

does anyone know if ek full mb cooling blocks for the e760 will fit the new classy 3.damn harder for us with water cooling to fix this if it becomes a problem now i cant leave my pc running when im not home

I'm hoping to have the 770 here by this weekend or early next week.  As soon as I can I will see if the EK block fits on it or not and let you guys know.  I sure hope it does.

I'll say it again, and keep saying it...we need official word from EVGA on what is going to be done about this.  I have a 760 board that I can step-up to the 762, but I've been number 1 in the queue for several days now and still no word on that one either.  I have another 760 and the 759 that are not available for step-up, but I want EVGA to fix this.

It will fit for sure.  Aside from some caps that were removed and no eSATA on the C3 the layout is exactly the same with the same mounting holes as the E759/E760.  I have the C3 sitting right here beside me but I do not want to unwrap it as it is going back to EVGA.

Does this only affect multi-rail PSU's? My 24-pin doesn't even get hot period. Always cool to the touch.

Blades

Just wanted to chime in. I did a test running GPU-Z and E-LEET with Furmark in SLI with my 480GTXs. My current was 58-61.5A on average(one spike to 64). This was after about 2mins run time. My GPUs settled on there temps at 62C though i am sure they would climb a couple more C over the course of 10mins. These cards really run alot cooler then my 280GTXs. My 12v rail drooped to 11.89 under load. I felt the plug with my finger and felt no heat what so ever.. I did feel a nice breeze on my fingers though from a fan in my system.. not sure which fan to be honest.  These numbers are comparable to the after fix numbers of the gentlemen a couple pages back. This maybe a PSU issue? Perhaps the Corsair AX1200 has a better plug/pin quality? I hope this helps some. 

Intel Corei7 980x
EVGA X58 3way SLI classified(non-200 chip 760 type)
2XEVGA Superclocked 480GTX (260.63)
3X2gb Mushkin Ridgeback memory
2X OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 120GB in raid 0
2XWD 750GB HD in raid 1
Coolermaster HAFX Case with 130CFM on GPU duct
1200w Cosair PSU(1200AX)
Asus VG236 120hz (6bit TN) Gaming
Dell 2209WA 60hz (8bit e-IPS) Documents/Imageing
Nvidia 3d Vision
Windows 7 pro 64bit

It takes a particular kind of setup added to the system one guy already burned the pins on his corsair 1200ax, and many of us have burned though Corsair 1000hx's, as well as other brands of psu's.

It is not something that happens right away, you may be fine and not meet the particular hardware setup. Then again a matter of days, weeks or months down the road you may be in the same boat, like if you add more ram, extra hard drives, or a gpu, or a network card. So far EVGA has not commented on what particular setups cause this. The best info we have is those it has happened to, and those who do the mod. All we really know for sure is 2x GTX 480's or more can cause this thats about it at this point. Like my system ran fine for three months until i had the burnup, you dont know at this point if your a canidate until it happens...=/
 
Yeah we are vocal so people know... look at the market for these kinds of setups its very small to begin with. All you have to do is look at that xtremesystems post to know something like this is very real and can happen... its coming from the fingers of Shamino he helped make the board...

I didn't know calling someone vocal was hitting low?
 
Anyways dejanh, your providing nice info here, thx.

Well, if what your alleging EVGA said is actually true, then 1%-2% is not enough for a recall.  By the way I am not saying that you are lying, I'm just saying there is no proof of that statement.  Now if we dig a bit into those numbers and assume that EVGA sold 50,000(could be totally off) 758/759/760 mobo's and there is a 1-2% failure rate, then the risk of loss is 500-1000 people.  Total loss would include fire to which I have not heard anyone loosing their house to this issue.  But worse case scenario, total loss of house and belongings with the average home price in the USA being $190,000(per last count), and say, I don't know $50,000-$100,000 in personal property per house.  We can have a number of $120,000,000 up to $290,000,000 loss.  I'm pretty sure that would bankrupt one of my favorite computer companies  Now I did pull the number of mobo's out of my arse and who knows the value of peoples stuff in their house but it sounded reasonable.  Just thought I would take a look at extreme scenarios and see how much loss there would be to the responsible company/companies.  Class action lawsuit on Nvidia, anyone?!? anyone?!? J/K of course.
 
Emach

Kram, you know that I know that! Thats why I said company/companies.

Fair enough, i didnt add any value in your opinion.  I only used those examples because of what another person posted that EVGA said.  I guess my joke at the end missed its mark completley.  I really don't know where you get that I'm slamming EVGA, far from it man read closer and maybe look at all my parts and you will see where my loyalty is. 

Add some value now emach. Have you done the molex mod to your E759 mobo? If not, have you had the melted pins on your mobo? If not, when you place your gpu's under stress does the 24-pin connector feel hot?
 
Helps us out here bruv, you seemingly have the combo of components to have this issue, except for you have a single rail psu. I know some cat a few pages back said his AX1200 melted a mobo, but he has never made a thread on it that I can find.
 
I'm like KMoore, I want to know the envelope in which both my E759 and E760 boards will operate safely in. Right now I'm not sure EVGA can even give us that info.

@trilogy3337
Dude if you want to keep it and make sure you never hit the ideal setup for meltdown"still have no clue what that is=/", just do the molex mod who knows you might get more stable voltages like some have, cooler running gpus. Plus you dont have to worry about a thing.... TBH I feel a bit cheated getting a Classified 3 w/ a sale price of 369-380 where I spent almost 500+ on my classified 759 w/ shipping stepup shipping and so o. But yeah Thurs of last week I put the info out of this is not just some random thing. With RMA's and so on EVGA should be able to say something...
 
But yes I am taken care of in a sense even though i got a downgrade tbh... I could stop posting and be like forget it. But I dont want alot of you to go though the same crap I have had to, or cannot dish out the extra cash for mass rmaing of parts, or trying out new ones to see if they suffice. Not everyone can do that esp in this economy. So will try to keep this post up to get some type of response from evga instead of a genaric response that leaves many of you scratching your heads and wondering do you have that setup, is your stuff going to go out in a poof of smoke or worse.
 
I would understand for legal reasons, yes other boards from other vendors have this issue. But the post on xtremesystems shows it was known in the classifieds custom construction/engineering pcie lanes beefed up so they would not burn up, just the molex would had been the last piece of the puzzel.... sadly its up to the consumer to add this... I am sure many feel they are getting the blind eye. Of oh whatever it will blow over and be forgotten.

5thduke

will moding the mb void waranties that has not been made clear.dont realy want to do a gheto job on my rig either.i am actualy going to put my faith in evga i know its not soley there problem but im sure they will come up with something.a plus for me is seeing the e760 still for sale so lets see what happins.

pm jacob and ask someone else was told no it would not, you get the go ahead save the pm/email and have at it. But I feel that not everyone can do the soldering job nor should they have to=/

Donta, I completely violently agree with you. I remember you stating that your GPU's were @ stock when the meltdown happened. My OC'd 295's are pulling the same/more power than the stock 480s'. So I am in the same boat you are/were. I don't want that classified 3, it's junk compaired to the 759 from my stand point. But I refuse to mod my board, currently I just have the board on a single GPU.