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pwner1984
I believe removing the heatsink or tampering with the cooling apparatus will void your warranty...

No it will not as long as you don't physically damage anything and return it to stock when you RMA: http://www.evga.com/suppo..arranty/graphics-cards/

Merkasaw
My card has experienced this symptom once so far, happened a couple of nights ago when playing Elite: Dangerous supersampled (effectively 4K).
 
After reading all these reports, I'm not sure how to proceed. I haven't been able to reproduce the symptom since, but I have a bad feeling that it's only a matter of time.

ZBeaverEater

Sajin

ZBeaverEater
Hey guy's, I re- seated my card, re-installed my drivers and I'm still getting strange white lines across my screen whenever I do a cold boot. When the system warms up, they go away. I decided to try debug mode today, and when I did, The top one third of my monitor displayed little color full squares and rectangles. I rebooted, and all was good again. No crash today, but things aren't quite right. What are your opinions? RMA? I paid over $700 with tax for this card.

Sounds like you got yourself a defective card. Have you tried a different display cable/output?

I switched display ports and the white lines seem to have gone away. I also played Battlefront on ultra for a couple of hours and the card seems to be behaving normally, Good framerates and running between 68-70 Celsius. The only other problem I have, is that I noticed the card doesn't idle, even when I'm on the desktop its clock speed is 1721. I ran Malwarebytes and my system is clean.... Any ideas? Anyhow, I'm going to play the Battlefield 1 beta this week and if I have no crashes or other strange behavior I will keep the card, if I do, its going back. Maybe I will see if EVGA will let me pay the difference and get a classified edition card, they don't seem to be having all these problems. Oh and by the way, thank you for your help.

TheGuz4L
Ran into this issue. Two weeks of using my card, it has been crashing all over the place including the 100% fan, black screen issue. Some games take longer to crash but some are shorter like the Witcher 3. I'm RMAing the card because I paid for an over clocked card and it isn't even stable at stock. Really disappointed as this is the first EVGA card I've ever owned. I've always gotten stock Nvidia rebranded PCBs and never had an issue in 15 years with several models.

While I'm glad I found this thread, it makes me sad that a replacement card I've paid advanced RMA fee for may still not work properly. Will report back in a week or so.

Nyy82
So, update for everyone. I RMA'ed the card, it seems like the card can't handle the factory overclock for some reason. *shrugs* It worked for fine for hours in Debug mode, but when I turned debug mode off to the overclock, it crashed within 10 mins. 

FEAReaper
Having the same issue as you guys. Can play DooM, Life is Strange, BF1 Beta with zero issues as far as I have played. But Rocket League uses only about 60% gpu usage and it crashes without fail after about 10-20 minutes. Monitor loses signal and gpu fans go to full blast, only way to recover the PC is to hard reset by holding the power button for 4 seconds.

Like others, i have tried different power supplies and all combinations of drivers, programs Uninstalled, etc.

So i got an advance RMA done, new card came fresh in it's box. And Dun Dun Dun, Dun dun....Dun, this brand new card has the same exact issue. They offered to do another RMA but they would open it up and abuse it first to see if it crashes for them. Not exactly the most enticing offer...im looking at possibly returning it and going with an Asus Strix 1080 instead since the 1080 FTW is clearly a card with some sort of inherent design flaw, and there is no other 1080 that they can swap us to without going to a different brand altogether.