delicieuxz

Omarlink
The status of thermal pads change, now says "pending shipment" but whats means? 1. The ship its coming 2. The ship is taking more time.

Where can I check to see the status of my thermal pads order?

Here 
 http ://www.evga.com/thermalmod/
 
 
 

So how does one set the BIOS between primary and secondary? I have EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR. Thank you. 

Anarion

emsir

Anarion

owagpus

Anarion
This is somewhat annoying... The BIOS changed the fan speed so that now it's quite often between 1100 RPM and 1200 RPM. However... At that range fan motors makes somewhat annoying noise and it's much more audible than even at 1350 RPM.

So I didn't imagine it. My 1070SC has the same strange whirring noise at exactly 33% (1210rpm) in EVGA Precision. At 32% (1170rpm) and 34% (1240rpm) there's no noise. Very odd.
Thankfully on my card the fans remain below 1100rpm @64C, which is the max temp in the games I tested. Maybe because I have a sidemounted fan in my case pointed directly at the graphics card?

In my case it makes that annoying noise at 32% and 33%. So it looks like it's a "feature" of this particular fan.

Just update primary bios again and you will have 0rpm up to 55 degrees.

Huh? Firstly, non-FTW cards have only one BIOS. Secondly that's not the issue here...
 

emsir

Anarion

clone
I must be one of the lucky ones as my 1070FTW runs very cool but ive still asked for the thermal pads.

GPU might run very cool but the VRM are could be well past the boiling point.

This is rubbish, you have no documentation to prove your statement. Don't post something you don't have a clue about.

It sounds like you don't have a clue. VRM is, pretty much without exception (just check out any review that has  thermal camera images), the hottest part on any GPU. Often because AIBs do not cool that are properly. External thermal camera shots don't even tell the full story because backside of the PCB is definitely cooler than the actual VRMs on the other side.

That doesn't prove a thing. You have to post some documentation with a specific EVGA card where the VRM temps are at boiling point. You have no argument if it's just words. If words were documentation, I could say  I've been on Mars and it's freezing cold with temps around - 540 degrees.

carb1de

emsir

Anarion

clone
I must be one of the lucky ones as my 1070FTW runs very cool but ive still asked for the thermal pads.

GPU might run very cool but the VRM are could be well past the boiling point.

This is rubbish, you have no documentation to prove your statement. Don't post something you don't have a clue about.

I don't think anyone could 'prove' anything without FLIR equipment measuring their particular example, but you can arrive at some informed hypothesis looking at approx. temp offsets of others measurements: http://imgur.com/a/D268D

Hypothetis is not conclusive,  and wil never be.

Omarlink
The status of thermal pads change, now says "pending shipment" but whats means? 1. The ship its coming 2. The ship is taking more time.

Well I am not holding my breath. I ordered on Oct 25, and last time I checked it said, "awaiting shipment." Or very similar. I ended up finding the measurements of all pads inc. thickness of course and have bought my own.
I think EVGA have received a deluge of requests, so I guess that statement means, "Not shipped yet, and no idea when we will." Could be waiting aloooooonnngggg time.
Good luck getting them this month for what it's worth. 

speckz
So how does one set the BIOS between primary and secondary? I have EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6286-KR. Thank you. 

There is a switch on the card where you can set primary and secondary Bios.

Aristoc69
I hope evga is including one of these with every pad kit:

Why? Did you lose yours? :))

Gawg36

Omarlink
The status of thermal pads change, now says "pending shipment" but whats means? 1. The ship its coming 2. The ship is taking more time.

Well I am not holding my breath. I ordered on Oct 25, and last time I checked it said, "awaiting shipment." Or very similar. I ended up finding the measurements of all pads inc. thickness of course and have bought my own.
I think EVGA have received a deluge of requests, so I guess that statement means, "Not shipped yet, and no idea when we will." Could be waiting aloooooonnngggg time.
Good luck getting them this month for what it's worth. 

Could you please post the measurements of all the pads?

delicieuxz

emsir

Anarion

clone
I must be one of the lucky ones as my 1070FTW runs very cool but ive still asked for the thermal pads.

GPU might run very cool but the VRM are could be well past the boiling point.

This is rubbish, you have no documentation to prove your statement. Don't post something you don't have a clue about.

What do you find to be inaccurate about their statement? The temperature sensor on graphics cards is for the GPU chip, and not the VRM or VRAM. Whatever temperature is read from the GPU chip does not reflect the thermal conditions of the VRAM and VRM.
 
I hope that a cool GPU means also cool VRM and VRAM, but without thermal pads to transfer the heat from them, there seems to be significant risk to those components.

I've had my GTX 1070 FTW since September and played a lot of demanding games. No issues at all. So significant risk to components are not true. There haven't been 1 card with damaged VRM or VRAM. Nothing! And I think a lot of people with EVGA 10 series card are using agressive fan curve in Presicion X, and by that the card has no heat issue at all.  

emsir
I've had my GTX 1070 FTW since September and played a lot of demanding games. No issues at all. So significant risk to components are not true. There haven't been 1 card with damaged VRM or VRAM. Nothing! And I think a lot of people with EVGA 10 series card are using agressive fan curve in Presicion X, and by that the card has no heat issue at all.  

I have seen numerous cases of people reporting, both here and on other PC forums, sudden and worsening artifacting with their EVGA 10XX series card, even using stock clock-speeds, and while not in any game or demanding application. In one case here on the EVGA forums, the EVGA support suggested the artifacting indicated a problem with the VRAM.
 
Hopefully these are isolated cases, and not caused by heat-damage.