I have the 08G-P4-6286-KR 1080 FTW, downloaded and ran the update and it says it is incompatible.
 

Greetings, jacobs, I have an EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6276-KR .I'm from Ecuador and request the pads is not available for my country, this is trizte xq in my country temperatures are higher, and have always been faithful to EVGA GPU, please help.

darkheran
 

Awesome, thanks for this. While like you said many factors skew accuracy here, this is still very helpful. Im assuming you didn't happen to notice if your RPM's matched at a given percentage between the two given "And if the overall RPM was also increased with the BIOS these percentages won't be apples to apples.". Though I wouldn't assume they would have changed the max given there is still so much room in the original profile and even this slightly more aggressive one. Either way, thanks again.

It didnt occur to me to check RPMs until after the fact, sorry! I can tell you that right now Afterburner reads the RPM at 3600~ish when at 100% fan. I don't know what it was before.

Quick question, my FTW has Micron VRAM. Safer than the Samsung ones from overheating?
 
I'm considering just keeping my card with the bios updated but no optional thermal pads
 
Thanks

I was under the assumption to begin with that this was only effecting the ftw cards so I had put a support ticket in on my 1080 classified, support is telling me it's my psu causing the issue and I should buy a new one.. When clearly the thread shows that the 1080 serial code is effected with this issue. Felt like they were trying to force down my throat a new psu instead of trying to help. Instead of giving some advise or referencing this thread.

solasoft
If you see any hardware problems with your 1080 ftw, artifacts, black screen, anything, start rma don't lose time to found out whats wrong...Life is to short to found out what is wrong with somebody problems. Evga make bad mistakes on project ACX 3.0 now they have to pay for it, or lose they reputations. I always buy EVGA products and i loved how the service works.

My last four graphics card have been from EVGA but after this I suspect my next one may not be. I mean the GTX 1080 was released back in June 2016 and is now November. It took EVGA four months to admit there was a problem and that thermal pads had been omitted by mistake (at least that is my understanding). Not one professional website that reviewed the GTX 1080 FTW back at launch picked up on this and now it seems that EVGA's reputation has been damaged somewhat because people are certainly going to be asking if their future cards have addressed the black screen/100% issue and/or have thermal pads fitted before committing themselves to buying one. I know I will be far more cautious, perhaps even choosing to buy one from a different vendor that did not have the issue with their custom GTX 1080.

Hi there,
 
Is anyone able to provide an image or the values of the fan curve that this bios update provides? I would like to compare it to the fan curve im currently using.
 
Thanks

It's not just a different fan curve, it's a different maximum RPM at 100% fan. If you want to emulate it to some extent, just slide your fan curve to the left by 10C ....but it won't be the same as the bios update. The maximum speed is different.

I would be also very interested in the differences of the fan curves. Unfortunately EVGA doesn't tell any Details...

I did the update on my 1080SC and so far after running the Witcher 3 for a little bit the max my gpu got to with the new fan curve was 65c, a Fan Speed % of 43 and an RPM of 1579 according to MSI Afterburner.  Given my card is in case right next to my left ear it wasn't that much louder then before.  I'm using a full tower case however with 2x 200mm fans and 2x 140mm fans so your mileage may vary but its not that bad in my opinion especially since my Witcher 3 was running at 1080p with pretty much ultra settings with hairworks on.  This is also while GPU boost brings me 130mhz over what the advertised boost clock speed is.

A good video regarding these VRM issues:
 
youtube .com/watch?v=QCuEUqHj_cU

Still no official statement regarding factory installed thermal pads. All we have is a lot of hear say and, according to some big Youtubers and other news outlets, someone in EVGA's end admitting the lack of thermal padding was an oversight. Those of us looking to buy a new card would really love to know what the deal is. Right now we have people left and right reporting their opinions as fact, obscuring the few that have legitimately had contact with EVGA and have first hand knowledge on the issue.

Mini Review GTX 1080 FTW (08G-P4-6286-KR) New vBios (86.04.3B.00.84) (GPU-z shows "B" not "b" Not important, but thought I'd show this to.)
Firstly - Procedure on PRIMARY Bios ONLY. Very easy. No knowledge of computers is necessary. Couldn't be easier. Worked the first time for me - of course.
Obvious, but please please be VERY careful about checking and double checking all model no. & all vBios no. Do that right and you are as good as fixed.
 
General impression summary (NB All fan speeds were recorded in NV Inspector).
1. The fans are still off (0%) at low temps, like below 50c approx for example. (It took too long for an accurate number, but it IS lower % than original vBios)
2. Manually putting the fans up to 100% now shows a much higher RPM. My max is now over 3,200rpm. This is a big jump. Nice, but noisy and never needed in normal use/gaming. With fan at 50% RPM = 1,600rpm. (May vary very slightly from card to card, that's normal.) Finally for 1,000rpm, my fan needs 31%.
3. The fan curve in my opinion is well in the acceptable range. However personally I prefer a bit higher. But I think EVGA made a good compromise between sound levels and cooling levels. Very easy to increase the curve via software if you are like me. (Terrified of frying components!!)
 
I could go on but this is not really a big deal. Note this BIOS has nothing to do with Micron memory issue which is a different thing, and affects 1070, not 1080.  As noted, personally for new demanding games I will use my own profile but this is a personal preference and has nothing to do with EVGA.
 
So, this first step is over and I think EVGA did a good job (except the original typo's I heard about. I would have had a heart attack. Luckily it was corrected when I downloaded)
 
Thermal pads: (awaiting delivery.)
 
In my Opinion the thermal pads are the most important and critical fix. I think it's essential for long life of HW, heavy gamers etc., as an important safety fix, regardless of what we are told.
 
Which brings me to my last point. I ordered those pads first day, but still on approval, (Scarlet-Tech & Brokencross  kindly explained it's not approval, but just means, haven't shipped or not ready yet. Fine I guess.) But guessing the numbers of people who want these, I see it could take a long time.
 
So, I think it is extremely important to state, here, or on the first page, the exact dimensions (Thickness I mean) of the pads. Especially the thin one (sorry if posted and I missed it)  Is the thin one 1.8mm or 1.5mm? This is very important to disclose as I have a feeling some of us might be waiting a while. If I don't get mine soon, I will happily do this myself, its cheap, its easy, but exact specs of thermal tape is essential.
 
Thank you to all who read. Thankyou EVGA for the good vBios fix. Please provided measurements of thermal tape (thickness).
 
Edit: All of this is my opinion and my findings. If people disagree that's fine, here is the perfect place. But it is TOTALLY OUT OF ORDER to flame, to call others childish, etc etc. It's opinion. Luckily there are very few prepubescent idiots on these otherwise decent forums. Thank again.  

max883
I own a Evga gtx 1080 SC acx 3.0 i removed the backplate. Used thermal Grizly Kryonut as paste and updatet the bios. Now my card never goes over 65.c at 50% fann speed. This is how it was ment to be inn the first plase.

Whait, what? You put it on the back? Stuff is like peanutbutter lmao why would you do that. Lmao

Is there people here that wont put the thermal pads and just use agressive curve fan ?
I have 55 degres with BF1...