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2017/07/02 05:56:52 (permalink)
Has anyone experienced any fire issues after the thermal pads were installed?  
 
My 1080 FTW caught on fire and is in RMA.  Admittedly I am a little gun shy about putting the replacement card back into my PC.  I thought EVGA publicly admitted there was an issue that the BIOS update and thermal pads were to fix.  However, the emails from support indicated there was in fact no issue with this as it relates to the card fire.  They summarized it as internet hype and sent me a link to this article as support of that statement: 
 
If anyone has any feedback on any issues after the thermal pads have been installed I'd be interested to hear it.  I am debating whether or not to just sell the RMA to cut my losses and move to another card.
 
 
 
 
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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW Fire 2017/07/02 07:06:38 (permalink)
    The thermal pad and bios were to keep the card cooler. The capacitors failing is not related to heat. The internet tried to tie the two together, so that was the internet hype that wasn't true.

    Capacitors and other components on other video cards fail. This happens on every card and every brand, it just depends on the timing. There is always a chance that something will fail and release a small flame.


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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW Fire 2017/07/02 14:25:32 (permalink)
    The vbios update/extra thermal pads won't fix defective IC's.


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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW Fire 2017/07/02 14:31:34 (permalink)
    Scarlet-TechCapacitors and other components on other video cards fail. This happens on every card and every brand, it just depends on the timing. There is always a chance that something will fail and release a small flame.

    Yup Yup Yup. I can attest to that.
     
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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW Fire 2017/07/04 08:44:17 (permalink)
     
     
    Goobers
    Scarlet-TechCapacitors and other components on other video cards fail. This happens on every card and every brand, it just depends on the timing. There is always a chance that something will fail and release a small flame.

    Yup Yup Yup. I can attest to that.
     
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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW Fire 2017/07/04 08:47:30 (permalink)
    Goobers
    Scarlet-TechCapacitors and other components on other video cards fail. This happens on every card and every brand, it just depends on the timing. There is always a chance that something will fail and release a small flame.

    Yup Yup Yup. I can attest to that.
     





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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW Fire 2017/07/04 14:06:09 (permalink)
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    Goobers
    Scarlet-TechCapacitors and other components on other video cards fail. This happens on every card and every brand, it just depends on the timing. There is always a chance that something will fail and release a small flame.

    Yup Yup Yup. I can attest to that.
     
    https://forums.geforce.co...d-or-rather-replaced-/


    OOOFF brings a new meaning to "burn baby burn". Hench why i fitted my pair of v1.00 and v1.01 with wBlocks, touch wood 


    This was after well after I had swapped the reference cooler with the EVGA Hybrid kit. This led me to a still unproven(?) hypothesis that liquid cooling the GPU meant the overall temps were always low. That meant the stock fan never spun up high enough to cool off any other component on the card that might've benefited from it if the GPU were hotter.
     
    The funny thing is immediately after that incident, EVGA released a modified version where the base plate had nubs, dimples, pimples, whatever you want to call them, sticking out of the plate. Which is now a full-on separate fin stack.
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    Re: GTX 1080 FTW Fire 2017/07/04 16:04:09 (permalink)
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    Goobers
    Scarlet-TechCapacitors and other components on other video cards fail. This happens on every card and every brand, it just depends on the timing. There is always a chance that something will fail and release a small flame.

    Yup Yup Yup. I can attest to that.
     
    https://forums.geforce.co...d-or-rather-replaced-/


    OOOFF brings a new meaning to "burn baby burn". Hench why i fitted my pair of v1.00 and v1.01 with wBlocks, touch wood 


    This was after well after I had swapped the reference cooler with the EVGA Hybrid kit. This led me to a still unproven(?) hypothesis that liquid cooling the GPU meant the overall temps were always low. That meant the stock fan never spun up high enough to cool off any other component on the card that might've benefited from it if the GPU were hotter.
     
    The funny thing is immediately after that incident, EVGA released a modified version where the base plate had nubs, dimples, pimples, whatever you want to call them, sticking out of the plate. Which is now a full-on separate fin stack.




    EK blocks was the key for me 
     
    i did look at the hybrid kit, but just something about it made me go nah nah. don't get me wrong i've not had a chance to test the hybrid kit so i really i can't comment other than what i have seen in the pictures
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