We were able to set an RMA for you and offer Pre-Paid shipping as well. The card issue that you are describing is card sagging and it is fairly common with larger cards. I personally own GTX Titan card that does sag a bit in the slot, but when placed on a flat table is still flat, hence the card is not warped. The weight of the card puts pressure on the PCIe and can cause it to show the wrong PCIe and cause card crashes. The last card was sent in for the same issue and passed through testing. Our recommendation would be to brace the card with a PCIe bracket that can help to hold the weight, or test the card in a different slot where the card may be stably running at PCIe 3.0 speeds and showing consistent performance. We are sorry that you were not satisfied with the RMA solution that we are offering you.

I understand your concerns, the backplate that is on the cards is largely aesthetic and does little to aid in the structure of the card. Titan cards are designed by Nvidia directly and they design the metal base-plate and cooler to hold the weight. Again I am using a Titan card and it too does not have a backplate, and card bending is not an issue. If that was a common issue for that card then the complaints we would get would be widespread and this is the first case I have heard of bending on a Titan card.

This is how you gain access to the marketplace.

This might help you find a suitable bracket: https://forums.evga.com/My-980-is-sagging-m2665163.aspx
 
Also, I have a ASUS z170 TUF with the backplate and thermal armor and have a slight sag in my 980ti and 1080ti. I know you probably don't want to hear it but those backplates don't do squat for stability. It's an ASUS issue IMO. You just have an extreme case of it. Just my 2 cents.

OK, seems my post got deleted.
Thread to my FS or Trade on the 3rd card I just got back:
https://forums.evga.com/F...P42990KR-m2707320.aspx

Ahh, doh!
Sorry, didnt know that.
Thanks for the info.

Wow.
I have to say this RMA'd card SUCKS.
I just got into the LOBBY for Warhammer Vermintide, and it was still on the GTX780 settings (ie: all medium and low, plus dof, blur, shadows, and some other stuff OFF), and the temp's got to 183.2 F, 83.8889 C.
And that wasnt even PLAYING the game!
That was just in the launcher basically, where you choose which map TO play.
Ambient temperature in my room (right above my computer, so it has to be colder on the ground) is 71 F, 21.6667 C.
 
This is freaking outrageous.
I have jumped through every hoop the mods, EVGA, and the community have had to offer, and I just cant get a good freakin Titan video card.
Its always some hoop to jump through, or the users fault, when everything I have is way more than enough that this card should run both properly AND cool enough to NOT throttle or harm the card.
 
I will be actually playing a game with the card in about 20 minutes, will let you all know how it goes.

That temp is normal for auto fan speed. Time to crank the fan speed up.

With heavier games (Sniper Elite 4, Dead Rising 4, Shadow Warrior 2. And none of them are on Ultra with everything maxxed out. I have stuff turned off, and some on low, and some one high) I am getting:
 
185F heat
99% gpu core
100% memory controller (how can this be if the memory used is only 35%? Can the card NOT have more than 35% memory used, if the memory controller is 100% in use when only 35% memory is used? This does not make sense at all to me).
35% gpu memory
53% fan speed
 
So, I dont know what to make of this.
But, until the fps starts lowering on games again (which it will), I am happy, as long as I dont get stutters from something being 100%'ed, or losing frames.
 
EDIT (still 71F (21.6667c) in the room, and AC pointing down towards the computer, still):
Mirrors Edge Catalyst results:
 
And, even more, bad, 186.8F, 86C.
99% gpu core
100% memory controller
42.9% gpu memory
2555 fan speed (funny, the fan speeds go higher, but open hardware monitor says 53% fan speed almost all the time for these upper heat tests. I wonder if 53% is the internal LIMIT for the fan controller without any 3rd party software installed? If so, that is seriously bad, and even now, you can tell there needs to be a better, more aggressive fan curve for these Titan X cards).
See pics. CPU temps are nice and cool. Mobo temps are nice and cool. Its only the Video card that is having issues. It has only EVER been the video card that has had issues.
 
I am afraid to do professional benchmarks with this thing, because I think it would actually break the card where it will slowly start dying again like the last 2. And, I have done pro benchmarks since my GTX580. But with these Titan X cards, every time I have done that, they have started slowly dying. I water cooled the 2nd titan x they sent me, and the gpu ran very cool under very heavy loads like these games I am playing still, and it didnt last 3 weeks before it started having issues. So, cooling the gpu core chip is not the issue. I wish I could afford the double sided stick tape to attach my aluminum heatsinks to the memory on the backside of the card (I have some left over from when I water cooled my 580, but the tape has been used, and none left). BUT, I dont think the memory is the problem, as my little (very cheap, but it works) laser heat sensor shows the memory is running cool since I put the fan blowing across the back side (top) of the card.
Is this starting to sound familiar to anyone else? Something about cheap cooling and certain parts of the board are getting too hot? And what did evga do? They recalled the 1080's, and started putting out bios' with more aggressive fan settings.
But, when asked to JUST put out a vid bios with more aggressive settings for the Titan X, BY USERS ASKING ONLY (no need to recall, just give it to the people asking for it), evga refuses to do so. Why? I am guessing because even though they SAY they fully support the cards for 3 or 5 years, as soon as the next lineup is out the door, they could care less about any complaints about the cards that have been replaced by the next gen cards (last gen cards are forgotten and thrown to the wayside, and screw the consumer. Let them wail and whine and TRY to solve it themselves, jump through tons of hoops that dont make anything any better, EVER, when evga could have an easy fix in less than a day).
Shame on you evga.
Shame shame shame on you.
 
So, here are the pics of the hotter video card (mind you, these are games I am still playing, I have not finished them. If I have finished them, I am restarting the games because they were good, or am playing on a higher difficulty). And, like I said, I would like to professionally benchmark the card, but I am afraid the card will break down again).
 
http://i1378.photobucket.com/albums/ah96/dave3d_bc/Titan%20X/3rd_titan__4_zps6nr6xf0p.jpg

I am wondering if something else might be an issue that is effecting your video card. I have a Titan X Maxwell and have never encounterd anything remotely like you have posted. I have used eVga for myself as well as clients. I have an older Asus mobo as well and have not seen any bending or anything from my Titan or temps being that high even with air. Sorry you're having what seems to be bad luck with the Titan's or something might be off with the motherboard sensors.

Well, with this new video card, my system has crashed 3 times now.
WTD?
This is just piss poor.
:(

Dave3d
See my posts here about the card crashing:
https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-GeForce-TITAN-X-Hybrid-randomly-overheating-m2715489.aspx
 
And this thread here about the 3rd titan x crashing on me since the first day I got it.
 
It shuts my machine off (heat, the fans dont go on high enough to keep it cool when the inside temp is 71F, or crashes my games (at LEAST every other time I play a game, and always when I play more than 1 game (the card seems to retain the heat instead of getting rid of it, so it keeps getting hotter and hotter and hotter until it crashes).
 
I have dump files of the crashes.
 
Will someone here (an EVGA member), who has seen my posts since the first time I have had issues with the first card until now, and I have done MORE than my due diligence in trying to get these cards to work, help me in getting anew card? One that just 'might' actually work in my system?
Please?
Pretty please, with EVGA on top?
 
I just want to play my games.
:(

I have forwarded this thread to EVGA

Umm, was someone supposed to get in contact with me?
I havent heard a word yet.
:(

Dave3d
 
 

@rjohnson11
 
Did you hear anything back about this?
Anything at all?
I am just sitting here waiting.
:(

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Dave3d
 
 

@rjohnson11
 
Did you hear anything back about this?
Anything at all?
I am just sitting here waiting.
:(

Please contact us through support@evga.com or call us 24/7 at 888.881.3842. 

 
Yes, and all I get is a tech that knows nothing about my issues, and says 'well your last card was good, its just you'.
Starting to really really irritate me and get on my nerves badly.
 
I just got yet ANOTHER crash in a game.
I played Warhammer Vermintide just fine.
Switched to Tom Clancy Wildlands and about 20 minutes into Wildlands BAM! Computer crashes.
Even with the fan at 100% the video card got to over 181F, and the system crashed and rebooted.
 
This is getting to be super ridiculous.