gjmptwaen
Super noob question.
If I've been running the card for about a month with heavy usage such as Battlefield with no performance issues, is there any chance that my card might be slightly damaged and I'm unaware of it or is the only time the card is considered damaged is when it blows? 

DeathAngel74
Have you tried the latest nVidia hotfix driver? 375.76?

Xfade81

Aristoc69
normally what should happen is you take your card to the store and the store gives you a new card. that is what the company should offer. you shouldn't need a receipt as it is obvious what brand and card you have.  this would be truly standing behind the products and respecting the customers. RMA with a credit card really is not the best way to deal with this. neither is repairing your own card. +1

You do realise that's something only the store can do right? EVGA can't go in contact with every store, since they don't even know who they are. They don't ship to stores, they ship to warehouses.
EVGA offers you to bypass the store. Since the store will just tell you to shoo, since the card is not broken. Don't forget, unless you ordered via EVGA, you did not pay your money to EVGA. You paid to the store. EVGA only gets their cut.

Bar81

EVGA_JacobF

carltonc
 
where are the bios updates for the 1060 cards?

BIOS updates on 1060 ACX3  cards will not be necessary, we will have the optional thermal pads for some SKU's so please stay tuned.

They aren't optional if you're installing them on the cards going forward.  Let's stop pretending.  +1

EVGATech_LeeM

Bar81

DJSeb

Bar81
You do realize there won't be thermal pads, right?  All they'll do is flash the BIOS (30 seconds of effort) and send you back a refurb.  But if that's what you want, go for it.

"EVGA has updated its manufacturing line for all these cards to add the thermal pads as standard."
Can't post links, but it's on pcmag site.

Again, until EVGA actually says this post vbios release I'll remain skeptical (not saying it's not true) and like I said, it wouldn't be the smartest move unless they want to swap thousands of cards. 

Would it help if I say it semi-post-VBIOS release?  All cards on the Thermal Mod list are being produced with the extra thermal pads and VBIOS flash, with certain exceptions (such as no VBIOS for GTX 1060s, as Jacob noted, or backplate pads for the 1070 Black Editions [no backplate]), and all graphics cards on the list will be updated for both VBIOS and thermal pads before being shipped out again retail or for RMA's.  Since there is a small downtime for accomplishing all of this, future cards purchased or replaced will have a pretty clear shipping date of when they were updated.
 

NicolaiMoller
Yes.
1) BIOS master update, restart PC, check nvidia control panel for version.
2) PC shut down, switch to slave, start PC, update BIOS slave, restart PC, check nvidia control panel for version.
3) PC shut down, switch to master, start PC, check nvidia control panel for version.... showing up with slave BIOS version.
 

ipaine
So I went and did the bios update for the secondary bios on my 1080 FTW, 08G-P4-6286-KR. And what has really struck me as odd is that the quiet and the aggressive fan profiles are exactly the same from the old to the new bios.
 
Can Jacob or someone confirm this is correct? Cause if this is correct, why the need for the BIOS? At least for the secondary bios.
 
Aggressive before and after
 
 
Quiet before and after
 
 
GPU-Z Before
 
GPU-Z After
 

delicieuxz

BartyB

delicieuxz

BartyB
I updated the VBIOS but while playing BF1 my temps are still at 82c? Is that a normal temp?

Is that a FTW card, and are you running a custom fan curve? That seems high. My 1070 SC on the stock fan profile reached a maximum of 72C. But I'm running a custom fan profile so that the fan is at 50% at 60C, and that keeps my GPU temperature at a maximum of 60C.

Yes FTW edition. I use to have it on a custom curve. I just turned it to aggressive after writing that message and now running battlefield at 1440 and 130fps I am around 68~72c and idling around 30 as of now.

Then I would say it is almost guaranteed that the higher temperatures you are seeing when your GPU is under load are due the thermal pads on your FTW not touching the VRM modules.
 
http://forums.evga.com/gaps-between-vram-chips-and-the-stock-thermal-pads-on-the-midplate-m2570619.aspx
 
My card is a 1070 SC, and so it shouldn't be affected by this particular issue. And I would guess that's why my stock fan-profile SC 1070 reached a max temperature of 72C, while your FTW reached 82C.

lebel

drmikeyc

This is my take on what I have so far looked into.....
 
2) How many cards have been seen to omit a small flame = 1 I've seen about 3 pics so far.
 
8) EVGA customer support still available = yes. Unless I have missed a company policy change? Sure are. As said many times no matter what you can still RMA and ask for support.
 
I don't adopt a pitch fork approach to my reasoning. Wish many more did. I agree

ipaine
So I went and did the bios update for the secondary bios on my 1080 FTW, 08G-P4-6286-KR. And what has really struck me as odd is that the quiet and the aggressive fan profiles are exactly the same from the old to the new bios.
 
Can Jacob or someone confirm this is correct? Cause if this is correct, why the need for the BIOS? At least for the secondary bios.
 
Aggressive before and after

 
Quiet before and after