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EVGA_JacobF
For those users who want additional cooling beyond the VBIOS update, EVGA has optional thermal pads available.  This update is not required, however; EVGA will make it available free of charge to any customer who is interested. To request the thermal pad kit, please visit www.evga.com/thermalmod 

darkheran

clocked970

Xfade81

trevor42088
I've been through a good amount of pages and haven't seen it clearly answered.

Does the over heating issues effect a 1070 sc? I keep my fans around 80% and keep the card 60c or cooler, will this ever be a problem for me?

A good couple of pages. Except page 1 and the first post. Nice.
Keeping your fans that high does not look like a good solution. I suggest getting the new bios instead.

You do realize that the purpose of the new bios is to increase the native fan speed of the card at certain temperatures? So if he is keeping his fans at 80% with a program like Afterburner or PrecisionX, that is the exact same result as flashing the new bios. I am not worried about rushing to get the new bios because I always make my own fan curve to keep my card cool anyways.

This is not entirely true. First id wager constant 80% as needless excessive fan wear. The irony being that one does so out of fear of flashing the BIOS (while raising the potential of another entirely different problem)  Secondly, the max RPM's were changed. I.E. the percentages pertaining to previous BIOS' do not match those of the current. 

darkheran

clocked970

darkheran

clocked970

Xfade81

trevor42088
I've been through a good amount of pages and haven't seen it clearly answered.

Does the over heating issues effect a 1070 sc? I keep my fans around 80% and keep the card 60c or cooler, will this ever be a problem for me?

A good couple of pages. Except page 1 and the first post. Nice.
Keeping your fans that high does not look like a good solution. I suggest getting the new bios instead.

You do realize that the purpose of the new bios is to increase the native fan speed of the card at certain temperatures? So if he is keeping his fans at 80% with a program like Afterburner or PrecisionX, that is the exact same result as flashing the new bios. I am not worried about rushing to get the new bios because I always make my own fan curve to keep my card cool anyways.

This is not entirely true. First id wager constant 80% as needless excessive fan wear. The irony being that one does so out of fear of flashing the BIOS (while raising the potential of another entirely different problem)  Secondly, the max RPM's were changed. I.E. the percentages pertaining to previous BIOS' do not match those of the current. 

Nowhere is Evga's post about the bios change did it say that they increased the max rpm's of the fans. The only thing I have been able to find on the subject is that the stock fan curve has been made more aggressive. Please link the page if you can show where they said the max rpm's of the acx cooler's fans has been increased with the new bios.

I can tell you. Im on the new VBIOS. The RPM is higher. But if you don't want to believe me so be it.

clocked970
 
Please tell me what your max card rpm is now with the new bios then? my max rpm on the old bios is roughly 3026 rpm. Thanks

alk47

alk47
Minor emergency:

The BIOS updater is stalled and doing nothing.

I closed all other programs and ran it with admin privileges. It identified my video card, asked 'y' to confirm / 's' to skip / 'a' to abort. I pressed 'y'.

It has since been sitting doing nothing visible for 30 minutes. No messages, no change, no nothing. Pressing 'y'/'s'/'a' again does nothing. Enter does nothing. Esc does nothing.

I'm assuming it should have been completed within seconds. Am I safe to simply reboot? Should I exit the updater and relaunch it without rebooting?

Swift advice would be appreciated if anyone at EVGA is still monitoring the thread. I don't really want to bork my video card over choosing poorly how to proceed, nor do I want to leave the entire PC sitting running like this until I hear back.

 
Update to failed BIOS updater problem:
 
The BIOS updater stalled on my Win10 machine immediately after the "press 'y' to confirm" stage. This is after the updater has already switched the display resolution down to 640x480, or whatever horrible postage stamp size it uses as base.
 
Keypresses did nothing; the updater cannot be closed with the window's 'X' button. Force closed the update task with Task Manager > End Task.
 
Tried the updater again, same problem: it immediately stalled after pressing 'y' to confirm. It did, however, confirm that it still saw the old BIOS on the video card. i.e. The previous update attempt had failed utterly, beyond borking my display resolution. This left me with no choice but to reboot.
 
 
On reboot I still had video (thank god) but the installed nVidia drivers (or perhaps EVGA Precision in the background?) failed to recognize the hardware and complained muchly about it. Couldn't even open the nVidia control panel. And I was still stuck in postage stamp resolution.
 
Rebooted into safe mode (Win10) and was able to run the BIOS updater (seemingly) successfully. 
 
 
Tip to the updater programmers: some kind of "UPDATE SUCCESSFUL" feedback would be awesome, rather than a 2-second progress bar of dots followed by the updater window auto-closing itself without any user feedback whatsoever. Having a BIOS update window simply collapse without warning is NOT reassuring or useful. This concept is not rocket surgery.
 
 
Rebooted into regular Win10, was immediately greeted with the same "No supported hardware detected" on boot. Still stuck in 640x480, pain in my ass. nVidia Control Panel still inaccessible.
 
Removed all nVidia drivers and components one-by-one via CPL > Programs and Features. Rebooted.
 
Win10 automatically installed nVidia drivers that were able to recognize the card properly, allowing me to open nVidia cpl > System Information, which finally confirmed that the new BIOS was in place. Updated those drivers with the latest from nVidia and all seems (?) to be back to a working state. Hopefully that continues.
 
 
tl;dr: Not terribly impressed with the update process. I highly recommend anyone else running the BIOS updater do so in Windows safe mode from the get-go to avoid potential conflicts. "Quitting all programs" (including all non-resident nVidia/EVGA programs) clearly wasn't enough.
 
PS: Appreciate all the advice. Oh wait... no... you were all too busy squabbling and counter-trolling each other for the last 90 minutes instead, to the point that the mod deleted half your posts. gj.

trevor42088
Jeeze... who said I was afraid to flash a bios? I installed one when the micron memory bios came outo, and flashed this one as soon as it came out.

And when they boasted 400% increased lifespan on the fans, I figured I'd be able to run them for as long or as hard as I want until it's time to replace the card, warrantee exchange for a different issue, or even install a waterblock.

I guess what I was hoping for is an evga rep would have replied with "no, not effected because this..." but instead all I got was anger... good goin "community "

And thanks to those who actually tried to help.

Xfade81
 
Scarlet-Tech, a mod here, posted a video quite some pages ago, old bios his max rpm was at max 2800, new 3300. It can be found on page 20.
If even Jacob says something wrong ... So dark and i say nothing wrong here. It's a fact about rpm.
 

dexters

khos2325

dexters
Just want to post something positive here.
 
I installed vBIOS ok for my GTX 1080 FTW but as my card is so new (October purchase) and I wasn't comfortable doing the thermal pad myself, I decided to pull trigger on RMA.
The longest wait was getting through, *2 calls ahead* but once I got through and confirmed my details, I was put on the que for advanced RMA , just waiting for my invoice to be verified.
 
The rep confirmed the RMA card will have thermal pads installed and the  latest vbios flashed.
He also told me the RMA box will come with a self addressed postage paid box for shipment back to EVGA.
 
Up here in Canada, shipping GFX cards as hefty as the 1080 FTW would easily run me $50+ and probably more since the holiday busy season is coming up.  It was a super nice gesture by EVGA to pay for my postage back to them.
 
I also asked about if I'll get new or refurbished and he confirmed I'll get new since my purchase was recent.  Albeit it may come in an RMA box  (hope it's ok for resale in a few years?)
 
Unless the RMA process itself falls apart or something unexpected comes up, I think this is the best customer service I've received.
 
 
I was an EVGA user on my old GTX 260 and went with MSi for the 700 and 900 series.  This whole thermal thing almost moved me away from EVGA, but it may well keep me with them for the 11 series or 12 series card, whenever I choose to upgrade.
 
Thumbs up.  Fingers crossed on smooth RMA for me, but pretty happy so far.

Sorry to break it to you, but there are no new cards with the fixes being produced, at least not right now. Evga themselves told me that they apply the fix to refurbished cards that they have in stock, and they will not guarantee that you get a new card. FYI I got my card on September 24th, so yeah ...
 
I just wouldn't trust what you were told at this point, and I'd certainly wouldn't give away my new card in the hopes that they send me a new card for replacement. If you're worried about the pads, then install them yourself. At least that way you are sure it is your own new card, and not some refurbished that comes with more problems. 
 
At least that's what I've been told by Evga, otherwise I would have RMA ed my card as well. Can any Evga officials comment on this. Do we get new cards as replacement or not ?

My card is within 30 days so he told me it will be a new one, but possibly with work done on it to apply the fix. I'm not comfortable doing the thermal application myself which is why Im doing this and at this point , worst case, I get a 2-3 month old refurbished card with the fix applied and I can resell it later with some peace of mind.  
 
Again, RMA still in progress and this could go belly up from a good to bad experience, but I am pretty happy with what is on offer so far.

DeathAngel74

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