I just wanted to come here and vent about my experiences with EVGA GPUs. I've own multiple EVGA products, which several of them had issues. Had a 1070 SC, which I had to send in for them to apply thermal pads. I've also had a 1080 FTW2, which had terrible thermal performance (would spike to 83C on stock clocks before down-clocking). Then my top of the line 1080 Ti FTW3 had subpar thermal performance, because it's only a 2 slot card. I later then Step Up to a 2080 Ti XC Black Edition. I was scared that history was going to repeat itself again, because I heard that the new RTX cards were prone to artifact. No issues, until 9 months later when my fan controller decided to malfunction, making my Fan 2 spin at 100%. The RMA was taking longer than expected. They told me that they were backlogged. I just received my RMA today, artifacting right out of the box. Is this a joke? What happened to their "extensive in house testing". How in the world did this card pass QC. I'd rather have my other card that at least worked. I heard that it takes several RMA's with EVGA to get a working card. I'm losing faith in EVGA products. The only reason why I stayed is because of the customer service, but I'd rather not have to talk to customer service at all.
 
Shout out to Justin at EVGA for dealing with me today.
 
Update: I just received my replacement from EVGA, after they were generous enough to give me an Advanced RMA. Card is working as intended, and I'm very pleased that EVGA made things right. 10/10 Customer service. Let's just hope this card last until my next one.

Cool GTX
Your post was "grabbed by the Spam filter"  I approved it

Thanks. I thought a mod deleted it, was about to get triggered.

GTXJackBauer
How were your GPU temps overall throughout your different GPU experiences on load?

Pretty average, most GPUs would hover around 74C.

It's definitely not my PC. The RMA was for a faulty fan. The replacement is in worse shape than the RMA, nice one EVGA. It started artifcating as soon as I started my PC. I tried to factory reset Windows, used different PCIe slots, different display ports and cables. I'm not even sure what's the point in RMA'ing anymore if all I'm going to receive is a refurb that probably came from a previous RMA. Explains why these refurbs are artifacting so frequently. Literally just a cycle of a mess.

The fan that was ramping up to 100% was due to a fan controller, EVGA verified that. My case has great airflow, I can take a picture of it here in a bit. I have Noctua case fans that are populating every slot for a total of 6 case fans. I have a NH-D15s cooling my 9900K that has been delidded w/ liquid metal. It's not my PC. And my problems has persisted throughout multiple builds/cases. This isn't an isolated incident.
 
PC Airflow - https://imgur.com/a/BUF41Hi

EVGATech_MattM
I am sorry to hear this and I see that you called after an e-mail and we have setup an RMA to resolve this. I have also responded to your e-mail and I have passed this to Justin for your shutout. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Let's hope this is the last time we talk to each other.

Evga is top notch. And anything in life there is problems I had a titan x die on me they sent me a rma one doa. They took care of me and I didn't give them attitude it happens.

We all have bad days and things go wrong. And the Nzxt h700i or h710i is a ok case for air flow. It's really good with out the top and front panel on temps will drop 5-10C.

I have noticed in my old h700i that my 3000rpm fans even at 60% was dumping so much heat out of the case that it was like a heater. Switched to a different case with more room and my room temp doesnt raise by 10-15 degrees anymore.

Randallel

EVGATech_MattM
I am sorry to hear this and I see that you called after an e-mail and we have setup an RMA to resolve this. I have also responded to your e-mail and I have passed this to Justin for your shutout. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Let's hope this is the last time we talk to each other.

Hopefully the issue is resolved with another RMA. Normally it just takes one to get things working good but sometimes a bad card slips out of the RMA department that we hear about on the forums. I hope you will take a moment to let people know how the second RMA goes.

Hoggle

Randallel

EVGATech_MattM
I am sorry to hear this and I see that you called after an e-mail and we have setup an RMA to resolve this. I have also responded to your e-mail and I have passed this to Justin for your shutout. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Let's hope this is the last time we talk to each other.

Hopefully the issue is resolved with another RMA. Normally it just takes one to get things working good but sometimes a bad card slips out of the RMA department that we hear about on the forums. I hope you will take a moment to let people know how the second RMA goes.

Yeah, I just updated my post. I'm very pleased on how EVGA handled the matter.