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EilonW
this is the problem, i dont know which bios am i the primary or the secondary
as i said im a bit newbie in this, so excuse me on this one
It clearly says Primary and Secondary. You should look for your card numbers ie:1070 FTW 6272 kR orRKarov
delicieuxz
I am also wondering about any specific information pertaining to potential performance degradation, or loss of GPU life, due to running a card for a few months without proper thermal protection.
Same here I never OCed or used benchmark tools and my case has pretty good cooling so I hope that my GTX 1080 FTW will not die soon after my 3 year warranty expires. My reference GTX 680's are still working to this day. I feel that although I did not have crashes or freezing that my cards lifespan is now shortened.
If your card is mailfunction within 2 years it will be replaced with a new card. That is, if you havn't overclocked it. If you Overclock it is on your own risk. ,
If someone overclocks their GPU, it is at their own risk... providing it is done in the environment of a GPU that is properly set up, including proper thermal protection. If someone overclocks a product that was faulty to begin with, and which makes it more susceptible to damage because the initial product wasn't done right, then overclocking is no longer simply at the risk of the overclocker, as any issues stemming from the base product's flaws are the responsibility of the manufacturer who put those flaws there. The proposal to overclock is given under the auspice that the GPU is not faulty to begin with. And, in many cases, overclocking is performed with a locked BIOS, which EVGA have set the parameters for.
Also, it should be pointed out, to those who are claiming that, despite lacking proper thermal protection, the EVGA cards are still running within spec... that "spec" you're referring to is not the recommended operating temperature for the components, but is their failure point. And the closer that those components are run to their failure point, the faster they will degrade.
So, a GPU with proper thermal cooling is going to last a lot longer than a GPU with improper thermal cooling - even if both specimens are operating well beneath the maximum temperature allowed for their components.
Operating a component that is spec'd for 125C, at 115C will cause that component to last a lot shorter than it would if that same 125C spec'd component were operated at 80C. The higher the heat, the faster that component wears and degrades.
For some people, it could be as though their 2 month-old GPU is now more similar to a 2+ year-old GPU, due to the increase in wear caused by elevated heat that their GPU has been operating within. Their GPU will still run, but it will have a lot less durability in it now than it should.
I think that people should let EVGA state what they're going to, to protect their business, but that people should not start repeating EVGA's defensive statements and acting as if there's nothing more to it than those statements. Depending on potential costs to their business, it, debatably, makes some sense that EVGA is concerned about potential fallout from this, and wants to downplay the situation. But for non-EVGA persons to conform to these defensive statements involves a greater measure of disingenuity, or naivety, and is a disservice to the people who are concerned.