acebb6
I just received my replacement card today. It came in a sealed retail box and inside you can even see the security tape to prevent tampering. So does this mean I received a brand new card instead of a refurb?

No. The refurbs get new packaging.

I ordered my 1070 Black yesterday from Newegg, and it arrived today.  Putting the serial number into the thermal pad request, the EVGA WEB site said I will need both the BIOS and thermalpad update.  Kinda bummed about it as I thought I won't have to deal with it.

47 with the fan curve of the new bios or a custom one ?

Emerald.ayether

acebb6
I just received my replacement card today. It came in a sealed retail box and inside you can even see the security tape to prevent tampering. So does this mean I received a brand new card instead of a refurb?

No. The refurbs get new packaging.

Refurbs typically comes in plain brown boxes with the letters EVGA and the serial number. New cards come in new packaging.

Got my thermal mod kit in the mail today for my 1070 SC. Took me an hour to install it (worked very slow and cautiously) with the new thermal paste. Other than the led connector being stubborn enough to warrant using needle nose pliers to unplug it, everything else went smooth and easy.  Now with the new bios installed, I can't get the gaming temperatures to go over 60 even if I try. Custom fan curve at 50% at 58c tho! It is a bit louder than before the bios update, but still nowhere near as loud as my 970 SSC was. For anyone who is tentative to install this thermal mod by themselves, if you just read the instructions provided by EVGA..(like 6 times over until you understand them very well), work very slowly and methodically, it is not an issue at all. Make sure you have everything you need before you start, such as Isopropyl Alcohol to clean old thermal paste from GPU and to clean VRAM chips. And small Phillips and Flat Screwdriver. Good Luck!

athlondude
Ok it says that on cards with a dual bios, only flash the bios that the card is set to, how do I know which bios the card is set to?

Do you have a manual? Read before posting. Or simply do a search on google for "how do I know which bios the card is set to".
Or look at your card, find a little swicth thingy where it says master/slave. Out of the box it should be in master-mode.
If you want to go flash both BIOS, then remember to shut down computer before changing switch position, and remember to use the correct file for the current selected BIOS/switch-position.
 

EVGA Thermal Mod Pad sizes and locations for DIYers

size, thikness and location of pads...

+ 2 weeks ... the thermal pads shipment deadline is way over. And STILL nothing. C´mon...

Request Shipped 11/09/2016 (Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery).
 
Today 11/23/2016 I waited 2 weeks and i don't have any information about "thermal pads".

I think you can please share the tracking number because we don't know if the pads its coming or not.
 
 

kommivan
How do I know when the date of the video card manufacturing. And the memory installed on the 1070 FTW.
And thermo expelled to Russia?

For the memory (manufacturer?) you can use TechPowerUp GPU-Z

Is there a way to tell if a card recently purchased through Amazon has the fix applied?

If you have not changed anything on the card, then likely primary is the only one you will need.
 

_inkubux_
I have a question, I updated the VBIOS and installed the pads on my SC Black Edition. Everything seams fine, but it looks like If I don't open EVGA Precesion software, the fan cure is still like it was before the update 0% when Idle. Is this normal ?
 
I prefer this fan curve as it makes the card dead silent. With the thermal pads installed is a fan curve with 0% fan speed when temps are lower than 50C is good enough ?.

This is normal. Precision X overrides the built in fan curve from the new bios. Don't use Precision X unless you OC. So yes, it's fine.

Nyres

Xfade81

_inkubux_
I have a question, I updated the VBIOS and installed the pads on my SC Black Edition. Everything seams fine, but it looks like If I don't open EVGA Precesion software, the fan cure is still like it was before the update 0% when Idle. Is this normal ?
 
I prefer this fan curve as it makes the card dead silent. With the thermal pads installed is a fan curve with 0% fan speed when temps are lower than 50C is good enough ?.

This is normal. Precision X overrides the built in fan curve from the new bios. Don't use Precision X unless you OC.

Using MSI afterburner without messing with the fan curve I have noticed that the regular 1080 SC does idle at 0% fanspeed but once gaming and it hits over 50c it starts to jump up a good amount to around 30-40percent fan speed at the 60c ish range on the new bios. Before the bios update it only used to go to like 15% fan speed at about 60c and I had used percison x once back then but not since the bios update.

 
Yes the new bios makes your fan go faster. Intended.

So after the Bios update and the heat pads installation, my old overclock profile now crashes where as the before the bios update and the installation, it was 100% stable.
 
I took my time with the installation and there was no dust or etc and everything was cleaned with 99% isopropyl alcohol and there was no issues during the install...
 
Before, I was running the GTX 1070 FTW on the Uniengine Heaven benchmark at the + 100 mhz core/+ 300 mhz memory overclock with a 110% power target completely fine (hitting about 2 ghz stable in the auto overclock and 8.6 ghz memory, and now it crashes on the same settings...
 
What could be wrong? I'm running at default settings right now and it overclocks to about 2 ghz and then ramps down to 1.9 ghz core/4006 mhz memory during the benchmark and maxes out at about 65C... The temperature before crashing is still in the mid 60s so I don't think it's a poorly seated cooler/thermal compound.
 
Any ideas on what could be causing this if anyone is experiencing anything similar?
 
Edit: The default profile with auto overclocking results in a 1896 MHz core clock with a 4004 MHz memory clock.
 
After an hour or so of testing, at max power target of 112%, I was able to push the GPU to a maximum of +75 core/+600 memory that's stable. The maximum temperature was between 67 C to 69C for all benchmarks (including default profile). The shown clock in Precision XOC (through the OSD) was 1962 MHz Core and 4596 MHz Memory. This is still about 100 mhz short of what the GPU did beforehand... Everything else is stock. didn't mess with the fan settings.